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Literal Erasure of Men. Hate to say it, but TheImpossible1 was actually right. "Batsman’s out and 12th man, third man and nightwatchman in line for dismissal" The "laws of cricket" were changed this week, removing the term "batsman" and "batsMEN", to become gender neutral, a bit like baseball. (www.theaustralian.com.au)
posted 4 years ago by bamboozler1 4 years ago by bamboozler1 +24 / -0
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– Happily_Grim 17 points 4 years ago +17 / -0

No article because it's behind a paywall and you didn't archive.
No idea what the hell you're saying in the title either....

 
  Edit: I think I get the gist of it. Australia sucks and is changing batsman in Cricket to some gender neutral bullshit. That figures. Australia is completely cucked by communists.
Read this: https://edberry.com/blog/polymontana/political-platforms/the-45-communist-goals-1963/
It was written in 1963. It doesn't just apply to the US either. Share it with absolutely every single Aussie you know. Text it to them, e-mail it, etc. Tell them they damn well better start learning their history because it'll be too late when their ass is in a camp or lined up against a wall.

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– bamboozler1 [S] 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

I chose that article because it’s one of the most extreme things I’ve read, from an “official”, for a while...

I’ve copied it below, and I also included a different article, for which the archiving DID actually work. So hopefully you and anyone else can see that, now, and the context of what my title was about...

Culture wars, innit?

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– Happily_Grim 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

It makes more sense now. It's late Friday evening/Saturday morning here and I've been drinking all evening and watching old movies. So my head isn't all there. I was able to figure it out lol.

Thanks for the link, man.

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– bamboozler1 [S] 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

I didn't archive it because it wasn't paywalled for me...

I'll try and do that now.

But no, this is actually a British decision. The MCC, which governs cricket, is British.

This is just a psychotic Australian female cricket administrator calling for them to go EVEN FURTHER, and change the language of the whole game...

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– Happily_Grim 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Gotcha. I just assumed it was by the publication being "The Australian."
The bitch should literally just get the boot. Who the hell cares if it "looks sexist"? People don't need these crybullies looking for attention and for credit for "breaking glass ceilings" and retarded shit like that. I'd go the route of telling any woke assholes in my organization to piss off and find a new job if they don't like shit.
But men have been completely neutered by women in modern day society.

On the bright-side, I can't even begin to tell you how much easier it is to find younger women when dating because of it. Just being assertive, confident, and not willing to take shit, for some reason attracts them like crazy. They all say the same thing, too: "The guys my age are just too sensitive and girly." Well no shit, woman. Why do you think that is? Such bizarro world shit.
But I honestly do care about society far more than that — which may make me the actual idiot.

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– bamboozler1 [S] 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

It's unarchivable, so here's the text:

"One of the most influential women in cricket, Christina Matthews, expects “12th man”, “third man” and “nightwatchman” to be the next terms to fall foul of administrators as the sport moves to being more inclusive.

“I think that’ll be easy to change as most people nowadays refer to it as twelfth and third,” Matthews said. “A nightwatchman is a little bit more difficult but someone will come up with a way of changing that.”

Four years ago it was Matthews who publicly called for the Marylebone Cricket Club – the guardian of the sport’s rules – to officially change the law and embrace the term “batters” rather than “batsman” to create a more gender-neutral cricket environment.

While the Western Australia Cricket Association chief executive and former international wasn’t successful in her push for change then, she said Wednesday was a “great day” for the sport following the formal MCC announcement the laws had changed.

She also recounted the fierce backlash when she first called for the laws to be changed in February 2017.

“In 2017 someone said to me I was; ‘stealing the game of men’ and trying to ‘ruin the game’, just ridiculous things,” Matthews said. “Back then it was a controversial call. For me today, and a lot of people, is a great day. It’s a really strong signal that cricket is really changing.”

“Four years ago there were those people who were hanging onto the past and I had a number of people say to me; ‘well it‘s the laws of cricket and we will always say this’.

“Well, today, it is not the laws of cricket anymore.”

Matthews also slammed those such as controversial media personality Piers Morgan who has described the official move to use the description of “batters” rather “batsman” as going “all PC”.

Others have accused cricket of being “ultra-woke” and Matthews describes those vehemently opposing the move to “batters” as “dinosaurs”.

“Woke is the dumbest word I have ever heard,” Matthews said. “Piers Morgan, who says it’s just taking PC too far, people who now use the words political correctness are dinosaurs hanging onto the past, because political correctness is in fact balancing the ledger, making sure that everybody is included, that the right language is used, so forth, it’s usually an indication of people not wanting to change.

“You’re going to get people who will say that, same way as people who voted for women to be continually excluded from the Australian Club …. but younger people don’t care for this. You don’t hear many people under 40 calling things politically correct because they’ve grown up in a different world.”

While some may not see why the move from “batsman” to “batters” is important, Matthews has seen and heard first hand why it is crucial to the game.

“I mean you get lots of women who go; ‘I don’t care’ but having been out in the field and in cricket a long time, I have seen enough young girls left confused, when you say; ‘batsmen go over there’, and they say; ‘where do I go?’

“(The MCC laws change) it’s a symbol that the game’s changing. If we want to show we are truly a sport for all, we’ve got to change the language we use, and that’s what’s really important, words mean things.

“And, you know, something that’s always been a term is not necessarily going to cut the mustard now and into the future.”

Matthews expects the change into the future around cricket terminology to be easier and even before the MCC’s call there were signs of a new dawn in the game.

“You only hear ‘third man’ and ‘fourth man’ in a public sense with more traditional commentators and those who are sticking to the little letter of the law,” she said.

“We’re (the WACA) about to release our annual report and I was reading Adam Voges coach’s report, as I flipped through the pages, I saw that he referred to his players as batters — and I thought my work here is done.” - The Australian

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– deleteduser120887 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

“You’re going to get people who will say that, same way as people who voted for women to be continually excluded from the Australian Club …. but younger people don’t care for this. You don’t hear many people under 40 calling things politically correct because they’ve grown up in a different world.”

lol wut

I know this entire article is basically being intentionally ignorant but this is something else. I'm 29 and the only thing it takes to see woke stupidity firsthand is having common sense.

If "young girls" can't put two and two together to understand what "batsmen" are then maybe the problem isn't their gender...?

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– ailurus 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

If said young girls actually existed, it's just a case of Lisa Simpson wanting to "play" football, just with the people thinking Lisa was right instead of just a self-righteous prick

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– censorthisss 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

If an alien race attacks our planet, I'm switching sides.

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– bamboozler1 [S] 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

Sport has been a massive blackpill, for me, lately. The AFL, NRL, Rugby Union, and now this shit. Fuck this. Nothing is safe, and nothing is sacred.

This is a war, and if you're "neutral" about it, you're just as bad as the useful idiots calling for all of this shit.

I'm so, so done, with all this, now. So very fucking done.

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– JiggsawCalrissian 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

I'm not surprised I1 is right. I've been seeing this shit happening for 20 years. He's frequently right, and if he isn't he's at least right to call it out. Yknow?

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– bamboozler1 [S] 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

This is another take, from a (more) leftist paper, if the archive actually works for this one:

https://archive.is/GWDCk

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– Tourgen 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

I mean, you know, some of you boys are still unclear on the new power structure. They’re going to have to make it perfectly clear for some of you.

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