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Originally Posted by Guinness
You’ve hit on something here Margaret.
Female pundits have been around for 40+ years…from Billie Jean King talking tennis and Rachel Heyhoe Flint talking cricket in the 70’s and more recently Gabby Logan on football and Claire Balding on the horses. Sue Barker successfully replaced that doyen of sports broadcasting David Coleman on Question of Sport and presented Sports Personality of the Year a few times.
The problem at the moment is the box tickers…all the females I mentioned know their stuff and are good broadcasters, so much so that gender is irrelevant.
What is happening now is our current ‘woke’ box ticking producers in an attempt at showing that they are inclusive, are throwing females who obviously know their stuff into hi-profile positions but, like bad teachers, they cannot communicate and it’s sticking out like a sore thumb.
And if I posted something like this on twitter I’d be cancelled
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I watch a fair bit of horse racing, the pundits seem to be a fifty fifty split of both male and female, they all know far more than I, especially after a race when they can give me very solid reasons for why I shouldn't have backed the horse I did, (I wish they were that forthcoming
before I put my money down), however one of the ladies does get a little overexcited now and then, this shows when her voice becomes so shrill it causes feedback in my hearing aids, most uncomfortable.
Fortunately the race commentators still seem to be male dominated I think the masculine tones are a preference in a tense and exciting situation.
Women? Football commentators? pass the smelling salts Grandma, the whalebone in this corset is sticking in my ribs again!