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I really didn’t want to have to do this, but The Sun On Sunday’s ‘exposé’ of Dr Eva Carneiro was such a cheap and despicable slur that I really didn’t have any choice. Even if it is exactly what Mourinho wanted, the internal conflict between Chelsea’s manager and the club’s medical staff led the agenda in the build-up to the game.
Firstly, it is important to say that Carneiro and Jon Fearn did little, if anything, wrong last Saturday. Footage indicates that they were called on by the referee, and possibly by Eden Hazard too. Their responsibility is not to the game situation, but to the physical well-being of the players. Both acted to the best of their (substantial) ability and medical training.
One could forgive Mourinho for his classic attention deflection trick in the post-match fallout when feelings were running high, but his decision to throw his colleagues under the bus leaves a sour taste, as does the decision to ban Carneiro and Fearn from the bench for Sunday’s match. His insistence that they could return and his own brief admission of guilt (“I make mistakes”) on Friday at least suggests that the situation is repairable.
However, it is the reaction to the incident (in some quarters) that has been the most unpleasant. Writing for ONE World Sports, Duncan Castles said that having a woman around the players may ‘affect the dressing room dynamic’ at Chelsea, as if they are all mouth-breathers who cannot prevent themselves getting erect when within five yards of a female.
The Daily Mail’s ‘Who Is Eva Carneiro?’ feature was also poor, as if it somehow mattered whether a medical professional has ‘pre-Raphaelite curls and toned figure’ or not. ‘She is pictured tucking into an iced cupcake while another shows her love of horse-riding as she canters in what looks like a safari setting’, that article informed the reader. Well whoop-de-f**king-doo.
The straw that broke this football writer’s back was that Sun on Sunday piece, however, in which an ‘ex-lover’ of Carneiro described how she ‘loved sex’ and 'drank wine’, under the pretence that this was anything other than a thinly-veiled character assassination. Adult enjoys consensual sexual intercourse? Well why the hell didn’t someone tell me earlier? I feel stupid for defending her now.
* Initially I thought I had Carneiro’s rap sheet sorted. Her crimes were 1) Carrying out her job correctly, 2) Expressing gratitude to those who had supported her and 3) Being in a long-term relationship (apparently with a s**t who would sell his story to the press). Throw away the key, jailer. Hanging’s too good for her.
But actually, Carneiro is guilty of a far more serious football crime: Being a woman.
Ask yourself this: How much do you know about Jon Fearn? What historical era is his haircut from? How many times a week does he have a w**k? Does he love horse-riding? Exactly, you don’t know.
To be a woman in football, despite the significant strides made, is to be at a disadvantage. You are fair game, an easy target. The best you can hope for on matchday is to be judged differently to a man in your same position whilst having thousands of ignorant morons shouting at you to show them your breasts. The moment things go awry, a small but dangerous minority will look to victimise you and sensationalise your (frankly dull) past actions.
Be considered attractive and you will be labelled 'sultry’ and 'sexy’, be considered unattractive and the abuse will be far more derogatory. This has to stop.
A trained medical professional has been reduced to the status of object for the hungry masses to feast upon, and it stinks. There will be those reading this who feel it has no place in an article about Manchester City vs Chelsea, but the Chelsea manager (and the subsequent reaction) decreed that it does, not me.
For women like Eva Carneiro, the ideal scenario in football is for you to be invisible. Just imagine how belittling that feels. If that’s not a status quo worth highlighting, I don’t know what is.
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lawyer hotlines:
- new york: 212-679-6018
- bay area: 415-285-1011
wardrobe:
- comfortable, supportive shoes
- clothes you can move in and sweat in
- if things will be cold where you are: gloves, hat, coat (be careful with scarves- make sure you won’t trip on it, that no one can pull on it and choke you, etc)
- write a lawyer hotline on your arm in sharpie; do not write it on your clothes or anything you can lose; do not write it on your wrist, where it can be covered by handcuffs or distorted by zipties
- if you think there will be tear gas, a bandana soaked in vinegar in a ziploc
- if you think there will be a sound cannon, disposable earplugs
- your meds, inhaler, epipen if you need them
when protesting, you have these rights:
- you can photograph and videotape police
- you can protest in public spaces
- you can protest without a permit
- police cannot search your phone without a warrant, and you are not required to give them your passcode
- police cannot delete your photos or videos under any circumstances
if you are arrested:
- you are not required to speak to the police without a lawyer present
- it is never, ever, ever a good idea to speak to the police without a lawyer present
- if you can’t afford a lawyer, they are legally required to give you a lawyer
in addition, know where your legal observers are (from the aclu, amnesty international, etc.)
it is a bad idea to bring drugs or alcohol!
if you have any information that this post doesn’t contain, especially legal hotlines, please feel free to edit and add at will
a masterpost of protests in your area can be found here.
Shocking video shows a Baltimore protester disappear into a crowd of police
Following hours of peaceful demonstrations, Baltimore police Commissioner Anthony Batts pronounced the city “stable” at a news conference Tuesday night, saying, “The curfew is, in fact, working.” Now video of protester Joseph Kent being arrested is showing just what the commissioner means by “working.” More on Kent and his civil rights leadership.
IMMIGRATION OFFICER FATALLY SHOOTS UNARMED 19 YR OLD BLACK MAN 10 TIMES DURING BALTIMORE RIOTS.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed 20-year-old Terrence Kellum, Monday afternoon on Detroit’s northwest side.
Police say the agent — part of a fugitive task force involving ICE and officers with the Detroit Police Department — was attempting to serve an armed robbery warrant at a home in the 9500 block of Evergreen near W. Chicago when the shooting occurred.
“I am told there was no forced entry into the residence, that they were allowed inside,” said Detroit Police Chief James Craig. “And I’m also told that the agent may have been faced with a threat, and it was at that point when he decided to use deadly force.” Craig would not talk more specifically about that alleged threat.
One of the eyewitnesses, a woman, shouted at the chief as she described what she claims happened. “It was 10 bullets…and did it take 10 bullets? When he came out, they didn’t have the handcuffs on him!” she said. “They shot him! He was not able to run to do nothin’. Y’all didn’t give him a chance!”
An Investigation has been promised but we all know how that goes….
#STAYWOKE
[Looting rhetoric] is victim blaming which says inanimate objects ought to become the center of discussion and outrage surrounding the death of a living, breathing, vibrant human being, and that never should we mention the white supremacist institution which murdered him or the cop(s) who pulled the trigger.
A while back I tweeted that the most powerful weapon to destroy a people’s resistance is to erase their history. For the phenomenon that is victim blaming, this is absolutely essential. If people (read mostly white people) can erase an oppressed population’s history, they effectively erase the oppression they themselves committed and make invisible the power they obtain from it.
“Looting” rhetoric is a method of erasing the previous violence and oppression visited upon Ferguson’s black community, specifically the killing of Mike Brown, but also even before it. This rhetoric conveniently rejects greater sociopolitical, economic, and historical context for the sake of bolstering itself and in doing so it can dismiss the continuation of white supremacy in contemporary institutions (like police departments).
”“But they’re looting and burning down stores”: Debunking the Logic of Oppression in Ferguson | AmericaWakieWakie (via america-wakiewakie)
Because the same garbage victim-blaming is being trotted out to demonize Baltimore resistance.
(via america-wakiewakie)
HAPPENING NOW (4/27/15): Today begun with the funeral of Freddie Gray. It ends with violence in the streets, protesters trying to defend their neighborhoods, the National Guard being activated, a city-wide curfew being employed, and ever-escalating tactics from the police. In the 9 months since the Ferguson uprising, there doesn’t seem to be a single lesson learned by those “in power.” Prayers and healing for those in Baltimore tonight. The police state refuses to work towards de-escalation. Be safe. Be vigilante. Stay woke. #farfromover
What triggers my anger is when that person who happens to be a female says: “I don’t need feminism. I don’t need to be liberated.”
How about you tell that to:
- that Moroccan girl who killed herself after being forcibly married to her rapist (x)
- that 11-year-old Texan girl who got raped by 18 men while the New York Times said she “dressed older than her age.” (x)
- Reyhaneh Jabari, an Iranian woman who was tortured in jail then hanged after killing the man who was going to rape her. (x)
- Nojood Al-Ali from Yemen who got divorced when she was 10. (x)
- the 16-year-old girl from Ohio who got raped and filmed at a party by 2 boys, while CNN reporters talked about the bright futures of the rapists as athletes. (x)
- the 94 women in Jordan who were legally married to their rapists, only in 2014. (x)
- the 8-year-old girl who was married to a man 5 times her age, and died on the day of her wedding because she suffered from bleeding and uterine rupture after intercourse. (x)
- the 25 Palestinian women who were killed by either their brother or father, in order to “protect their honor” only in 2013. (x)
- the 99% of Egyptian women and 90% of Yemeni women who have experienced sexual harassment (x) (x)
You still don’t need feminism?