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Jowell fights for gender equality at 2012 Games

Monday, 16 February 2009

Jowell wants the London Olympics to have as many women competing as men

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Jowell wants the London Olympics to have as many women competing as men

Tessa Jowell, the minister for the Olympics, wants to change rules that bar women from competing in as many events as men by the 2012 Games.

Ms Jowell said it was wrong that, under Olympic and Paralympic regulations, men can take part in 40 more medal events than women – 164 compared to 124.

A rule change would allow women to compete in boxing and heavyweight wrestling and men in synchronised swimming and rhythmic gymnastics. Ms Jowell and the Sports minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, have written to the heads of UK Sport asking them to investigate a "gender discrepancy" and to press for equal opportunity at the London Games.

Ms Jowell said she had discussed the issue with the gold medalist Victoria Pendleton, who was only able to compete in one sprint cycle event at last year's Beijing Games while her teammate Chris Hoy won three golds.

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Hilarious ...
[info]l3enz0 wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 12:59 pm (UTC)
Women's heavywieght wrestling ... rofl . Still would be preferable to this womans lightweight waffling . Although there will be some events that the restriction could and should be lifted , there really should be limits . Loretta Jowell at her best ...
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more seriously
[info]cronyblatcher wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 03:01 pm (UTC)
the minister most closely associated with money laundering, claims that women, denied the right to be single-handed parents without being vilified by Harperson et other sociopathic rat-brains in power, claims wimmin's right to engage in contact sport with males

http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOvtNLJL6mI
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Go Tessa!
[info]had_it wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 02:33 pm (UTC)
Let's get rid of all this sexist gender discrimination and just let men and women compete against each other in the same events.
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Re: Go Tessa!
[info]cronyblatcher wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 04:11 pm (UTC)
Yes dear. 0h, and isn't the cost shaving these day scandalous?
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Re: Go Tessa!
[info]eve_ntual92 wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 07:32 pm (UTC)
Absolutely. It's the only way in which true equality can be earned. How long until we have a woman: playing for a Premier Division club? Fighting for an WBC title? Playing Nadal at Wimbledon? Winning Formula One? And so on...
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Re: Go Tessa!
[info]had_it wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 08:23 pm (UTC)
Oh, Darling. You are a sexist pig, aren't you.
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Olympics
[info]bogbrush2 wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 03:22 pm (UTC)
Jowell.s Jowells have entered the synchronized "moving hot air around the room to no useful purpose" event by the sound of it. When you can only tell the sexes apart in some cases by doing detailed chromosome analysis, why worry about gender equality? I don't want to see women boxing any more than I want to see them thrashing around in a ring full of mud, but perhaps I'm just a bit retro. If they want to behave like men and be treated like women, that's fine too, just weird. I always wonder what the ancient Greeks would have thought.
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"what the ancient Greeks would have thought"
[info]cronyblatcher wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 04:19 pm (UTC)
Like latter day muslims, the Athenians would say "you have lost control of your wimmin", while the Spartans would be amused
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Re: "what the ancient Greeks would have thought"
[info]cronyblatcher wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 04:58 pm (UTC)
Hey! To be fair, sometimes something you've said turns round and bites you where you least expected.

What of the Spartans' perspective? It reminds of some of the fiercest regiments of Zulu armies (before import from 'Murka by the British of the Gatling machine gun).
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Re: "what the ancient Greeks would have thought"
[info]cronyblatcher wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 05:09 pm (UTC)
http://www.answers.com/topic/amazons
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Mad Britain
[info]misticmeg wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 03:29 pm (UTC)
Britain must be the laughing stock of the world, AGAIN,AGAIN,AGAIN
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Viva
[info]cronyblatcher wrote:
Monday, 16 February 2009 at 05:37 pm (UTC)
Successful social revolutionary Chaves
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Newscrap
[info]meparece wrote:
Thursday, 19 February 2009 at 02:51 am (UTC)
As I clicked on the headline I thought to myself: " Wow, how great, they will now allow post-operative transgender people to compete with dignity withing their assigned gender group against their respective fellow athletes in the Olimpics?! WOW, this is really progress!"*
Then, the page opened and this pathetic lil piece of newscrap appeared in front of my eyes... Go ahead women of the world, turn into men already and compete with them in ALL modality of sports.

*Just so you know, a transgal who has undergone surgery is no stronger than any other lady athlete out there who is not on steroids, and that applies to transboys too. So why is it that transpeople cannot enter ANY Olimpics competitions?
Women's equality....what a bunch of bullcrap.
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