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  • Casual sexism on television, especially in an arena were women have far from established their place. Is shite.
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    YouTube - Richard Keys To Jamie Redknapp - "Would You Smash It?"

    Cringeworthy.

    This didn't actually go out did it? It's just been put out after the scandal, right?

    Without wanting to sound like I'm legitimatising (is that a word?), their conversation, they are footballers. Has anyone actually heard players/people in football talk? Or any sports people for that matter. This is standard everyday vocab. Whether you think it’s ok is one thing, but just like the way people go nuts over things like coke/hooker scandals there's some massive double standards going on here.

    …….Keys and Gray were definitely stitched up….

    I don’t know enough about the story, but the fact that videos like this are being ‘released’ clearly = stitch-up. If you wanted I’m pretty sure you could get this footage for almost anyone involved in sport...and probably media...and journalism...

    There is a big difference of mocking people in a personal manor such as Frank Boyle vs Kerry Katona or mocking someone when they fore-fill a stereo type e.g taking the piss out of a black friend because all you see them eating is chicken compared to saying an entire section of society can't do something or is worthless e.t.c because of their gender or race.

    Yeap, there is a difference. But imo, not much.

    People like Frank Boyle or Ricky Gervace are getting laughs from offensive material. What was the guy in the clip above doing? Trying to get a bit of a laugh/joke/props/affirmation/whatever by talking about someone smashing someone in.

    The Office racist sketch was genius, however, I think that a lot of the time, the truth is comedians (and audiences) just subvert jokes that are no longer acceptable.

    “I know, lets have this twat who makes prejudiced remarks/jokes so we can laugh at the joke, but do it in a socially acceptable middle class way that outwardly re-enforces our own lack of prejudice, because we don’t have the balls to do it straight up any more.”

    Well that’s what I think happens in +90% of the country anyway.

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