When evewyone feews wewcome
Meet “Rainbow Laces” –
Football has the power to bring us together.
Clubs and communities are stronger when everyone feels welcome, and it’s down to all of us to make that happen.
That’s why we, the Premier League, proudly stand alongside Stonewall in promoting equality and diversity.
A key focus of the partnership with Stonewall encourages LGBT+ acceptance among children and young people involved in community and education initiatives such as Premier League Primary Stars and Premier League Kicks, and within Academies.
Coaches, teachers and leaders are equipped with bespoke resources and programmes developed by the League and Stonewall which promote positive attitudes towards the LGBT+ community.
Blah blah blah, on and on, short paragraph after short paragraph, until you can’t see the horizon any more.
Funny how it’s never occurred to them to encourage acceptance of women, who are 1. half the population and 2. the source of all the population. Women are old news, not cute and interesting like the elljeebeeteecyoo communniny. So GET WITH THE PROGRAM. Salute the communninny. Bow to the communninny. Flatter the communninny. And hurry up about it!
But uh oh – someone has balked. The horror.
OPTED NOT TO WEAR?????
Can he do that? Is it even legal? Can they execute him?
We’re caught between this crap and Trump’s crap. Our space to stand on is shrinking rapidly.
Sort of like the polar ice caps.
Quite so.
… Well, except women and girls. They’re not supposed to feel welcome. In fact, they’re not welcome. Community work is “women’s work.” Let them get on with the essential but unpaid, unrecognized labor of building communities, for everyone but themselves. And then make themselves scarce while everyone else reaps the benefits of their labor. Same old, same old.
I have been proclaiming my giraffe identity for years, only to find myself rejected again and again in this supposedly, allegedly and so-called ‘rational world.’
(SOBS QUIETLY.)
Well, Omar, maybe quit sticking your neck out.