Funny enough this topic came up the other day and a woman at work brought the whole 'things have moved on, why can;t a woman be bond' argument to the table.
thing is you can say tradition, not right etc but you can;t go much further as you can tell they're waiting to play the 'sexist' card, particularly as in work environment.
subject then moved onto why its more difficult for men to play for england football team, compared to women. my male colleague was saying its harder as literally millions of men play football from young age, where only thousands of women play, so more competition, along with other logic. He then said in the same way its 'easier' for men to represent england at rugby compared to football, as significantly less people play it - just to kind of back up he wasn't be sexist at all. you could tell she was stumped as started saying 'hate it when you talk like that' (even though he was being calm and reasonable) and said shes not having this discussion anymore, tried to make him seem like a **** and create a weird atmosphere. Basically couldn;t argue with his logic so started criticizing the way he was saying it, rather than debate the discussion at hand. We gave each other a knowing smile.
Funny thing is, recently she had argued about keeping the royal family mainly due to tradition, whereas same male colleague said they should go.
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