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The English Cricket Board has a serious woman problem and seems blissfully unaware or unaffected by the gathering strength of the double women’s rights storm brewing outside its boardroom doors.
A look at the board of Gendered Intelligence is revealing. It doesn’t take special glasses to see through the elaborate pronouns on display in the profiles of the Chair and Head of Public Engagement to find two men. These men, and the many others scattered through the board, as though it’s a haven for aging death metal band members by the look of them, are advocating for the “inclusion” of men and boys in grassroots female cricket teams in total disregard of the safety of female players.
Cricket is not a contact sport, and yet grave injuries can and do result from the hurtling of an incredibly hard ball towards opponents. If that ball is being thrown or hit at an unexpectedly greater speed towards a woman, by a much more physically powerful male player who should not be there, then there is a huge problem and no “training” can curtail the risk.
It is alarming that the ECB have undertaken advice on who should play on women’s grassroots teams from such an ideologically driven group, who likely have little or no equivalent expertise in the mechanics of the game, especially regarding the safety of women playing it.
The ECB is being “educated” in how to exclude women from their own sport and provide places for men to be there in their place. They are being told they should not see a difference between the bodies of men and women, girls and boys and they are seemingly accepting that willingly. The logic of this would surely apply to the higher levels of the game. Male people are male, whether they are exceptionally good at cricket or not; being less good doesn’t make them womanlier.
The English Cricket Board has a serious woman problem and seems blissfully unaware or unaffected by the gathering strength of the double women’s rights storm brewing outside its boardroom doors.
A look at the board of Gendered Intelligence is revealing. It doesn’t take special glasses to see through the elaborate pronouns on display in the profiles of the Chair and Head of Public Engagement to find two men. These men, and the many others scattered through the board, as though it’s a haven for aging death metal band members by the look of them, are advocating for the “inclusion” of men and boys in grassroots female cricket teams in total disregard of the safety of female players.
Cricket is not a contact sport, and yet grave injuries can and do result from the hurtling of an incredibly hard ball towards opponents. If that ball is being thrown or hit at an unexpectedly greater speed towards a woman, by a much more physically powerful male player who should not be there, then there is a huge problem and no “training” can curtail the risk.
It is alarming that the ECB have undertaken advice on who should play on women’s grassroots teams from such an ideologically driven group, who likely have little or no equivalent expertise in the mechanics of the game, especially regarding the safety of women playing it.
The ECB is being “educated” in how to exclude women from their own sport and provide places for men to be there in their place. They are being told they should not see a difference between the bodies of men and women, girls and boys and they are seemingly accepting that willingly. The logic of this would surely apply to the higher levels of the game. Male people are male, whether they are exceptionally good at cricket or not; being less good doesn’t make them womanlier.