Jamaican cricketer comes under feminazi fire for comment about female journalist's "pitch"

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St Antigua: A women's rights group here has condemned as "sexist" remarks made by Jamaica Tallawahs captain Chris Gayle to a female journalist at a media conference.

And the group, Women Against Rape (WAR) headed by gender equity advocate Alexandrina Wong, has also criticised the response by the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) to the incident, reports CMC.

Ahead of Thursday's CPL clash here between Tallawahs and Antigua Hawksbills, Gayle, a former West Indies Test skipper, was asked Wednesday by the journalist: "How does the pitch feel so far in terms of the training (and) the weather?"

The 34-year-old Gayle responded: "Well I haven't touched yours yet so I don't know how it feels", before adding "I like your smile; that's nice."

However, the CPL downplayed the incident, saying that Gayle was just sharing a light moment with the female journalist.

"Chris is excited for the tournament and was having a laugh with a journalist, who had a laugh back; there was no malice intended," the Antigua Observer quoted a CPL spokesman as saying.

"The lady in question had a jovial goodbye chat with him and we don't believe this was the action of someone who was offended."

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"What it's implying is one person's power over another in the use of the language and so we can either say it's sexist and hegemonic," Wong said, adding that the response from the reporter "indicates that she obviously doesn't know her right to autonomy".

http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/news/227084-chris-gayle-slammed-for-sexist-remark-against-woman-journalist

Edited July 19, 2014 by mota bhai

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Isn't it funny how the people offended are never the people involved?

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As the nice feminazi busybody put it: "she obviously doesn't know her right to autonomy"

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Most feminazis don't have the right anatomy.

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St Antigua: A women's rights group here has condemned as "sexist" remarks made by Jamaica Tallawahs captain Chris Gayle to a female journalist at a media conference.

And the group, Women Against Rape (WAR) headed by gender equity advocate Alexandrina Wong, has also criticised the response by the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) to the incident, reports CMC.

Ahead of Thursday's CPL clash here between Tallawahs and Antigua Hawksbills, Gayle, a former West Indies Test skipper, was asked Wednesday by the journalist: "How does the pitch feel so far in terms of the training (and) the weather?"

The 34-year-old Gayle responded: "Well I haven't touched yours yet so I don't know how it feels", before adding "I like your smile; that's nice."

However, the CPL downplayed the incident, saying that Gayle was just sharing a light moment with the female journalist.

"Chris is excited for the tournament and was having a laugh with a journalist, who had a laugh back; there was no malice intended," the Antigua Observer quoted a CPL spokesman as saying.

"The lady in question had a jovial goodbye chat with him and we don't believe this was the action of someone who was offended."

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"What it's implying is one person's power over another in the use of the language and so we can either say it's sexist and hegemonic," Wong said, adding that the response from the reporter "indicates that she obviously doesn't know her right to autonomy".

http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/news/227084-chris-gayle-slammed-for-sexist-remark-against-woman-journalist

A feminazi group called WAR headed by Wong... Oh the rich minefield of sexist material I could reap from that one. What a tool that woman is, or rather in need of one maybe