• Updates from the Matildas? final game of the tournament in the US
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The Matildas will be in their new all black change strip tonight. Colombia will be in their traditional yellow.
The issue comes from the fact that these comments from Sheargold were so unnecessarily gendered. By comparing the team to Year 10 girls, he draws on societal attitudes that girls and girlishness are instinctively laughable and unserious. There is a long history of society not taking girls seriously ? from mocking the kind of music they like and the books they read, to the way they speak, run and throw. By putting the Matildas into the realm of ?girls?, Sheargold was trying to ? whether consciously or unconsciously ? take away the little power they had earned after dragging women?s sport into the spotlight.
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