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Parity
By: paralambano Date: November 18, 2016, 9:00 am
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I'm for the USWNT team and all professional female teams getting
pay and prize equity:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDXuIHe0O2Q
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDXuIHe0O2Q
There's a piece on it this coming Sunday on 60 minutes. The
USWNT is threatening to strike about it.
The game's the same for the men and women. Same injuries, same
bad calls by refs, same, same, same . . . . .
Titles:
USWNT
Competition
Women's WC Qualification CONCACAF
Women's World Cup
Women's Algarve Cup
Olympics Women
Women's Olympic Qualifying CONCACAF
Total
USMNT
Competition
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Olympic Qualifying CONCACAF
Total
Canada Women:
Titles:
Competition
CONCACAF Women's U20
Women's WC Qualification CONCACAF
Women's Algarve Cup
Women's Pan American Games
Olympics (Bronze X 2)
Total
Canada Men:
Competition
CONCACAF Gold Cup
CONCACAF Nations Cup
Total
I watched a game yesterday between Korea and Venezuela (Women
FIFA-under 20) which was every bit as skilfull and entertaining
as some men's games and more than other men's games I've seen.
They all huffed and puffed like the men.
para . . . .
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Re: Parity
By: Kerry Date: November 21, 2016, 3:27 pm
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Why have two teams? Why not have one team with both men and
women on it?
The lines are already being blurred. If a man becomes a woman
by surgery, should he/she play on the men's team or the women's?
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gNN_aiXLls
This video doesn't quite portray the situation of gays in Iran
accurately who are sometimes forced to have gender surgery.Iran
is not comfortable on this subject. They are so homophobic,
they think they can "cure" being gay by gender surgery.
The two players suspended in 2011 might be lucky to have gotten
off with a suspension. Some people have been forced to have
sex changes.
HTML http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-15533927
[quote]The Iranian football federation has given indefinite
suspensions to two players for "immoral acts" during
goal-scoring celebrations, state TV says.
Footage posted online shows Persepolis defender Mohammed Nosrati
squeezing teammate Sheis Rezaei's bottom.
Another video seems to show Rezaei squeezing a teammate later in
the 3-2 Persepolis victory over Damash Gilan.
The game was broadcast live to millions. Nosrati and Rezaei have
said they did not intend to offend anyone.
The two "have been banned indefinitely from all football
activities for committing immoral acts", AFP news agency quoted
Ismail Hasanzadeh, the head of the Iranian football federation's
disciplinary committee, as saying.
AFP said the two players have also been suspended by Persepolis
and fined nearly $40,000 (£25,000) each.
The Islamic republic's football federation has been trying for
years to curb what it considers immoral behaviour on the field
and foul language among players and spectators.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaaioSW5nUw
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Re: Parity
By: paralambano Date: November 22, 2016, 11:41 am
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Kerry -
Maybe some Iranian women will follow the lead of this woman who
disguised herself as a man to watch a soccer match there.
Apparently, it's men only there to watch games:
[quote]
HTML http://observers.france24.com/en/20160519-iran-football-women-ban-stadium-woman[/quote]
Go, FIFA!
para . . . .
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Re: Parity
By: Kerry Date: November 29, 2016, 5:58 am
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I forget now where I read the story about women in Iran
protesting because they were not allowed inside stadiums. I
can understand why the Greeks didn't allow it -- when the
athletes were competing naked. I find it hard to understand why
anyone would do it today. Anyway when I was trying to find
that article, I found something else about a woman from Iran
protesting at the Olympics.
HTML http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/reports/why-this-woman-s-olympic-games-protest-shouldn-t-go-unnoticed-254152
If you tuned into the Olympics this weekend you might have
caught the drama that unfolded on Saturday, involving a female
Iranian activist being asked to leave the stadium for raising a
political banner.
Darya Safai was asked to leave a Rio Olympics volleyball match
where she was sitting front row court-side, for holding a banner
that read ‘Let Iranian women enter their stadiums’, violating
the International Olympic Committee ban on political signs to
bring global attention to the fact that women aren’t allowed to
attend male sporting events in her country.
Some spectators raised their eyebrows as she refused to move,
waiting for the cameras to pan away from the distraction and
return to the match, thinking she was nothing but a trouble
maker – they could not have been more wrong.
Darya Safai is one of the most inspirational women out there,
moving milestones in the name of gender equality, fighting
extreme Islamism and protesting in desperation for her people.
We spoke to Darya, speaker at the 2016 Geneva World Summit,
before her Olympic demonstration to hear about her campaign.
‘People think that things are getting better for women in Iran’
Darya explained, ‘but every year the situation gets worse, since
the revolution of 79, women have lost a lot of their rights.
Women can now only be at university for a maximum of 50% of the
time (before the quota, women made up 67% of the students),
there are lots of subjects that women are now forbidden to study
and since last summer there have been 40,000 cars that were
confiscated because the female drivers or passengers were not
wearing their hijabs properly. You can’t imagine what the women
are going through even today and it really is getting worse.
When I was in Iran we didn’t have a lot of rights and in 2012
volleyball stadiums which had previously been open to women,
suddenly forbid them entrance’ Darya continued, ‘I knew that if
we didn’t react there would soon be bigger problems. I decided
to protest in the stadiums outside of Iran to let journalists
and people all around the world know about the limitations for
Iranian women.
It was then that I decided to initiate a campaign to let Iranian
women into the stadiums and decided to go all around the world
whenever the national team of Iran was playing a game. We wear
t-shirts saying “let the Iranian women enter their stadiums” and
hold big banners which of course attract lots of attention. The
goal is to encourage the world to put more pressure on the SIVB
(The World Volleyball Federation) to do something about our
exclusion, something that goes against their law that any kind
of discrimination in the stadiums is forbidden.
Iranian women are trying to protest inside of Iran but it is
very suppressive, every little protest is a jail sentence but
still they wait at the doors of the stadiums to ask for
entrance. It’s important to make people aware that such a thing
exists in the 21st Century. The oppression and suppression of
Iranian women and other women in Muslim countries is not only
those women’s problem but the whole world’s problem.
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