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LostLegend said:
My head’s completely fell off here.
How are those things even remotely related?

Did AI write this? lol
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Since when has taking pictures of girls whilst hidden in trees been classed as a commercial photography anyway?

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Ozwell said:
Well it isn’t, do you know what woke means, in terms of popular culture?

This is someone who is easily offended and trying to cancel people. He is offended a Woman dare speak about football or someone who is black. By the gbeebies definition that is woke
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Oh, the 'gbeebies' definition, not the real definition of the term 'woke'.
But thanks for sharing, very enlightening and most fascinating.
 

ForeverBlue92 said:
An intellectual could argue Bartons points much more eloquently and receive a lot less flack as a consequence of that.

Bartons main argument is that men and women's football is played to different standards therefore punditry on the mens side of the game should be predominantly ex male footballers. That in itself has some validity and shouldn't be seen as out right misogynistic, however the way he delivers that message in an often unsavoury manner makes it easier for the woke extremists to refute everything he argues.

As a commerical photographer I find the whole modern corporation/virtue signalling phenomenon fascinating. If I order a Domino's its because the pizza is nice not because they post witty tweets on social media. People who love FB92 on GOT do so because of his footballing/philosophical wisdom not because of his ravishing good looks.

These young marketing graduates who are gaining employment into these companies are often failing to acknowledge the reality of core business objectives / target audience and fall down the rabbit hole of thinking virtue signalling = £££. Sky Sports for example wont see a surge in new subscriptions from female viewers because they replace a male pundit with a female one on MNF or soccer saturday - if anything they're more likely to rile up a small section of their already subscribed target audience (men).
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Nearly all male football commentators have never played any pro-football yet you’re all crying about female former England international /women’s premier league punditry!!?!?!?!

Fuc**** weird
 
Diogenes the Cynic said:
I really couldn't care less who is commentating etc as long as they are informed, interesting and entertaining.

I liked the woman who was commentating on our cup game, best summarising I've heard in a while.

But although diversity is important I want the best people on the box whatever their colour or gender. And if the best people are white males then that's who the line up should be.

Fortunately any awkwardness is avoided by the absolutely abject abilities of 99% of white male summarisers.
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I think this is all about right. But let’s have it right, employing a footy pundit, isn’t exactly appointing the head of your military, or a nuclear physicist. It’s just someone wanging on about footy.

It’s an entertainment business, a big part of picking pundits is gonna be picking people who they think the public will like, for whatever reason.

So it’s never gonna be as clear cut as who’s the most knowledgable or informed, there’s always gonna be a bit of who do we (the producers) think will be popular with the public.
 


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