{"id":301829,"date":"2023-12-08T18:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=301829"},"modified":"2023-12-08T18:24:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:24:40","slug":"emma-hayes-shares-four-minute-male-privilege-speech-after-barton-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/emma-hayes-shares-four-minute-male-privilege-speech-after-barton-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Hayes shares four-minute male privilege speech after Barton rant"},"content":{"rendered":"
Emma Hayes went on a four-minute rant about male privilege after the Chelsea boss was asked about Joey Barton\u2019s controversial comments on female pundits.<\/p>\n
Barton shared a series of sexist posts on social media on Wednesday, claiming that women should \u2018not be talking with any kind of authority\u2019 about men\u2019s football.<\/p>\n
The Chelsea manager has worked as a pundit and co-commentator for ITV for both men and women\u2019s football. Barton said in 2017 that he would like to see her \u2018cross over into the men\u2019s game\u2019.<\/p>\n
Hayes answered the question about Barton, without mentioning his name, in a four-minute monologue which included arguing that a good surgeon does not need to have been a good patient to perform operations.<\/p>\n
\u2018The realities are that male privilege has been something that’s always been at the centre of football in this country,\u2019 Hayes said.<\/p>\n
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Emma Hayes gave a four-minute monologue on the systemic misogyny present in football<\/p>\n
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The Chelsea manager’s comments came in the wake of Joey Barton’s incendiary comments suggesting women broadcasters shouldn’t be involved in the men’s game<\/p>\n
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Barton has previously spoken out in praise of the head coach’s abilities as both a manager and a pundit<\/p>\n
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\u2018Women were banned playing football up until the 1970s. I don’t expect any individual personality to understand their privilege, nonetheless you only have to see scores of women across the internet or in the business, whether you’re a presenter, a coach or a player to realise that we’re routinely used to dealing with systemic misogyny, bullying, and behaviour that has been pretty normal for a large part of the football public.<\/p>\n
\u2018The realities of it is that I find the debate interesting and we should have that debate without being personal about it and I\u2019m not referring to any individuals.<\/p>\n
\u2018But I feel that sport is the last place in society where that male privilege exists and so naturally if I go all Darwinism on us and speak evolution theory, the realities of it are that, when there is an existential threat, you either evolve or you die. It\u2019s one or the other.<\/p>\n
\u2018I think when it comes to the sport of football in this case, we have to remember that society isn\u2019t always as well represented across the media or across the game in coaching or playing.<\/p>\n
\u2018If you haven\u2019t experienced systemic misogyny like lots of us have, you can\u2019t for one moment understand how detrimental some of these conversations are, knowing that anything anyone says just enables an absolute pile on, particularly on social media which, let me be clear, doesn\u2019t take a lot for people to pile on women. It\u2019s pretty normal for a lot of people that support football.<\/p>\n
\u2018So it\u2019s sad, a little bit, not that we are having this conversation, we should have the conversation about the broader issue of it.<\/p>\n
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Hayes is one of the most decorated managers in the women’s game, last year winning a fifth Women’s Super League title with Chelsea<\/p>\n
\u2018But I want to accentuate the positive, I want to accentuate the positive contributions that many of us, myself included, have made to the game of football and that unlike other professions.<\/p>\n
\u2018I have to say this cause I\u2019m always fascinated with it, rarely do we go into a hospital and if we have a female physician who is carrying out a surgical procedure on someone\u2019s kidney, often we won\u2019t turn around and say to that surgeon, \u201cI hope she was a good patient once cause being a good patient means that you\u2019re going to be a good doctor.\u201d Well we know that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n
\u2018Talent and experience might help and a good skill set. It\u2019s the same about being a great banker. Does that mean you had to be a frugal spender to be a good banker?<\/p>\n
\u2018Much in the same way, do you have to be a well-travelled passenger to be a good pilot? I think we become so unaware of our confirmation biases, but two, when there\u2019s an existential threat, the things we do to make ourselves relevant create a lot of noise around a very, very, very interesting topic but perhaps we could do it better in another way.\u2019<\/p>\n
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