The Andy Gray and Richard Keys 'scandal' that seems to have 'rocked' football and society in opening our eyes to sexism in the game is an absolute joke! It was clearly just lads locker room banter, as i have seen it described in some press, and doesn't warrant the attention or scrutiny it has received.
Firstly you have to question how these off air comments have made their way into the public domain. They were made off camera, so only someone working at Sky would have been privy to what was being said. Leaking 'sensitive?' information like that about your colleagues is a pretty cuntish thing to do, and if i was in charge at Sky i wouldn't tolerate a grass like that in my team!
Secondly they hadn't made the comments on air, as obviously this would be perceived as inappropriate (which i completely understand). They were made off air and as such it's not a reflection of Skys beliefs about women's involvement in football. Its a personal opinion (rightly or wrongly). Loosing a job over a personal opinion (voiced in private, to work colleagues) especially an opinion as trivial as wether a women would make a right decision in a football match is pathetic.
If the comments made about Sian Massey on the Saturday were the only comments made, and the appropriate apologies were made then i'm pretty sure they would still have their jobs. However, with the leak of the Massey comments came further nails in their coffins with back dated footage of Keys and Gray being apparently sexist again. One example of this is the clip were Andy Gray asks Charlotte Jackson to tuck a mic down his trousers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuPMFvuYcvk
This is clearly a joke and Charlotte Jackson doesnt seem to bothered by it. She can't have been to bothered by the connotations of sexism or being seen as a sex object when posing for this article:
http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Hot_Babe_at_Sportcouk/49612/All-Action_Jackson.aspx. If she didn't want to be seen as sex object or treated like one, why pose like this in a magazine designed to be oggled at and read by men!? As such, she can't of been offended by the comments and so unless she reported the behavior as offensive, no one else has the right to moan about it!
My final argument couldn't be summed up better than by an article i found in the daily mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1350829/Sky-sexism-row-Why-right-women-sexist-MEN.html
and an article from the telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8290591/Andy-Gray-and-Richard-Keys-the-changing-face-of-office-banter.html. This boy talks sense, and the women writing is refreshingly un biased. I hate inconsistency in society and i think this sums it up! Im not condoning sexism, as it is completely wrong, however what they said or did can't be considered sexist or in any way worse than media exposed females have said. So infuriating!
I don't think just because you are famous or in positions of authority you have to be a role model and act like the perfect person. Thats to much to ask from someone. They haven't acted different to millions of other men around the country, this doesn't mean that what they said was right or i'm condoning it, but it has been blown massively out of proportion and they didn't need to loose their jobs!
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