IT'S PC GORN MAD GUVNOR !

Ruminating on the debacle that Sky have got themselves involved in regarding the 'LineswomanGate' scandal. It appears that all contentious issues that the PC brigade expound on have to have a 'Gate' somewhere in the title. Sky did an interview with Jon Gaunt and an Asian character by the name of Piara Powar, head of "Football Against Racism in Europe" ?? who continued with this line of 'What they said is unacceptable in a modern country...yadda yadda'. One of those professional opinionators who seem to prowl around TV studios all too willing to proffer their opinion on this wicked, hateful society we live in, their opinions gobbled up by news hungry studios all determined to be seen as on the right side. Let's be clear...Andy Gray comes across as a knowledgeable football pundit but a deficient human being and an unedifying man. A man for whom the phrase 'grow up' could have been specifically written. Misogyny seems to thread itself through and around him and his lifestyle. As a proud father of a daughter, the idea that her sex should get in the way of her achieving her ambitions is abhorrent. But the PC brigade have won. Now if you utter a single word or phrase that the likes of Mr Powar don't agree with, it can get you fined, sacked, and in the worst cases, imprisoned ! Yet still they're not happy, for these words were not uttered in public, but in a private conversation between two men that was secretly recorded. Not happy with controlling what you SAY they now want to make punishable what you THINK ! For all their bombast the two men involved are not stupid which was shown in their on-air interviews with the lineswoman involved. They were courteous and respectful. A woman, incidentally, who has now found herself embroiled in a controversy that she doesn't deserve or warrant.
And still the hyperbole continues with that champion of women's rights Rio Ferdinand...yes THAT Rio Ferdinand...now Tweeting away his disgust at these two men. I really DID choke when I read his protestations. And Sepp Blatter...yes THAT Sepp Blatter...the Sepp Blatter that advised women who wanted to improve the profile of women's soccer to wear tighter shorts!...voicing his disgust at these two reprobates. And then there's News International. The sanctimony emanating from Murdoch Towers would also resonate a bit more if it wasn't the purveyor of such newspaper titles as The Sun and The News of the World, both of which rely upon young women shaking various parts of their anatomy at us from various angles and in various states of undress. That men think certain sports are male dominated is true. Men invented the sports. We wrote the rules. Women will never be equal with men at a vast majority of professional sports played today. The physical differences between us will always stop that despite all protestations to the contrary. Men do view women differently. Equal but different. Because we are different.That men look at women and think naughty thoughts is not new. We do it ladies. We look at you legs when you walk in front of us. Your perfume DOES work it's magic. We do get light headed when you come close by. We're MEN. We're supposed to ! Now there is a world of difference between THINKING these thoughts and ACTING on them. To have uttered the rubbish that Gray and Keys did to this woman's face would be unacceptable. To have said these things between themselves is not...it's still rubbish, but it's freedom of speech ! I read this phrase today..."One key principle of civilised life as we know it has been overlooked in the sacking of the Sky football presenter Andy Gray: namely that we should never be punished for our private thoughts or private speech" Have we really lost the plot so much in our dealings with each other that this state of affairs should be allowed to continue ? The equality Laws have worked and now your sex doesn't stop you from achieving your dreams. Can the law now work so that individuals can think private thoughts and have private conversations without being held to account for every utterance ?