Matchday thread: Rams v Wycombe 16/12/2023

[ramAnag]

I suspect there’s a tiny element of ***ism in all of us and I’m as much the victim as I am the perpetrator of gender stereotype based banter. It’s usually funny, not malicious and therefore not something that needs addressing imo.
The rest I largely agree with you about.

As regards the ‘gammon’ thing. To me it’s ‘unhelpful’ because it’s easy to react to and usually risks putting the user in the wrong, but ultimately isn’t it just a p*ss take out of those ‘Colonel Blimp’ types who’s complexions tend to become ever more florid the more enraged they become at their typical targets...non white people, refugees, immigrants, the EU, empowered women and all things remotely ‘woke’ etc?

[Andy_Faber]

I suspect there’s a tiny element of ***ism in all of us and I’m as much the victim as I am the perpetrator of gender stereotype based banter. It’s usually funny, not malicious and therefore not something that needs addressing imo.
The rest I largely agree with you about.

As regards the ‘gammon’ thing. To me it’s ‘unhelpful’ because it’s easy to react to and usually risks putting the user in the wrong, but ultimately isn’t it just a p*ss take out of those ‘Colonel Blimp’ types who’s complexions tend to become ever more florid the more enraged they become at their typical targets...non white people, refugees, immigrants, the EU, empowered women and all things remotely ‘woke’ etc?

This is more for the joey Barton thread, I’ll respond there, continue to discuss if you wish

[swaledale]

On here, apart from GP’s joshing, no. Elsewhere online the balance of folk picking on the refs gender and those calling folk with a genuine negative opinion misogynists, ‘gammons’ etc is fairly even. The culture wars continue, thank God for football, even if is dire

I was referring to comments elsewhere, GP's comment I took as being tongue in cheek, though I could be wrong!