Stephanie Frappart has made history as a female football referee today. Unsurprisingly, the backlash is sexist. Find out more on Grazia.
. In fact, she is so highly qualified that she was chosen to referee the WWC Final in France last month.
And yet, commentary still revolves around whether she’s got enough experience or not. It’s not just social media trolls, entire articles have been published focusing on the debate around her abilities. In fact, UEFA have even been forced to defend her appointment, with their head of refereeing Robert Rossetti having to confirm that yes, ‘she understands football’.
What is hilariously eye-rolly about this entire debate though is that those protesting her experience are pretending it’s not about gender at all. Every comment fits the same mould: ‘I don’t care that she’s a woman, I just thinkabout Rossetti’s defence of her, it states ‘it’s not a debate about gender.’
And so of course this is a debate about gender. If Stephanie were a man, no one would even care who was refereeing this game. It might be a two-minute conversation in the pub as the game starts, or a controversial argument when a penalty is called, but would we ever be reading their name all over the press? No, because men’s professional capabilities, across most industries, aren’t intrinsically questioned.
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