Comments on: The Sweeper: ‘John Terry sleeps with some bird and everyone’s up in arms’ http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2010/02/07/the-sweeper-john-terry-sleeps-with-some-bird-and-everyones-up-in-arms/ A soccer blog featuring essays, news and photography exploring soccer around the world Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:48:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom Dunmore http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2010/02/07/the-sweeper-john-terry-sleeps-with-some-bird-and-everyones-up-in-arms/comment-page-1/#comment-20613 Tom Dunmore Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:47:35 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=7263#comment-20613 I thought Jennifer Doyle had an interesting perspective on this <a href="http://fromaleftwing.blogspot.com/2010/02/john-terry.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> <blockquote>The grandstanding over Terry's affair is a lot of stuff and nonsense. Most of these players have been raised by football itself, which is, especially in England, a deeply regressive patriarchal space that can't imagine women as anything but ornamentation, things look at and to use. The media is perhaps the worst culprit on this issue. Such rhetoric masks the degree to which it in fact embraces and celebrates sexism and machismo in football, and reproduces the assumption that football can't in fact survive without it. Terry is sacrificed here, in a seasonal rite washing an entire culture of its responsibility in making the world worse.</blockquote>: I thought Jennifer Doyle had an interesting perspective on this here

The grandstanding over Terry’s affair is a lot of stuff and nonsense. Most of these players have been raised by football itself, which is, especially in England, a deeply regressive patriarchal space that can’t imagine women as anything but ornamentation, things look at and to use. The media is perhaps the worst culprit on this issue. Such rhetoric masks the degree to which it in fact embraces and celebrates sexism and machismo in football, and reproduces the assumption that football can’t in fact survive without it. Terry is sacrificed here, in a seasonal rite washing an entire culture of its responsibility in making the world worse.

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]]> By: Elliott http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2010/02/07/the-sweeper-john-terry-sleeps-with-some-bird-and-everyones-up-in-arms/comment-page-1/#comment-20612 Elliott Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:40:55 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=7263#comment-20612 The only thing that bothers me about the JT situation is that a male homo sapien would engage in coitus with a female homo sapien. It wreeks of heterosexism! How dare he.... The only thing that bothers me about the JT situation is that a male homo sapien would engage in coitus with a female homo sapien. It wreeks of heterosexism! How dare he….

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