For all its wins, this women’s World Cup still managed to showcase the prevalence of everyday sexism and institutional misogyny.
, “it must be too far for him to reign over.” In this age of global warming, maybe the tyranny of distance will eventually end the anomaly of having a long-haul head of state., which was delivered solely with his daughter, Princess Charlotte, tokenistically at his side. Having scored one own goal with his absenteeism from Sydney, he then followed it up with another, with the absenteeism of his sons – princes George and Louis – from that video.
After all, one of the wonderful upsides of this tournament has been to see not just girls and women inspired by teams such as the Lionesses and Matildas, but boys and men. Women’s sport is not just for daughters. Men also need to hear and heed the message of gender equality and sporting parity it conveys. The Prince, then, seemed to place himself in whathas called “as a father of daughters brigade” – a battalion familiar to Australians following the prime ministership of Scott Morrison.
There continues to be a stunning degree of tone deafness in the male-dominated upper reaches of the game that is positively 1966. FIFA’s imperious presidenton the eve of the final, with his patronising comments – presaged by telling us he had four daughters – about how women should “pick the right battles”. Seemingly thinking he was channelling his inner Gloria Steinem, he then added that women “have the power to convince us men what we have to do.
, when the Spanish football federation president, Luis Rubiales, grabbed the head of the Spanish midfielder, Jenni Hermoso, as if it were a trophy, and planted a kiss fully on her lips. “I did not enjoy that,” the Spanish star said afterwards.This quadrennial sporting festival, then, has showcased the prevalence still of everyday sexism and institutional misogyny.
Nick Bryant is a former BBC correspondent and the author of The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a Great Nation Lost Its Way.
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