Office sports talk is sexist

by **mrswdk** on Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:53 pm

Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned.

Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests.

"A lot of women, in particular, feel left out," she told the BBC's Today programme.

"They don't follow those sports and they don't like either being forced to talk about them or not being included."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51261999

by **NomadPatriot** on Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:18 pm

because talking about people 'being white' is separate from Racism...

by **jonesthecurl** on Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:35 pm

I always feel left out when people talk about sports too. Or guns. Or cars.

by **saxitoxin** on Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:10 pm

If I said "I'd like to meat her" does that count as Meat or Sex?

by **saxitoxin** on Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:13 pm

Anyway I voted sports. I work in a women-dominated office and the girls are always talking about soccer, particularly the middle aged mothers. It can make me and my fellow male co-workers feel left out as we know next to nothing about make-up, menstrual cycles, soap operas, soccer, and similar female-oriented topics.