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Local women's soccer team apologizes, no, not for new name, but for lame, unintentionally transphobic ad campaign
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Pretty cringe!
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I mean
I mean it’s women’s soccer. A little in jest joke to highlight the woman’s aspect of the new team is fine. We do not need to be so sensitive. And I’m pretty sure there will be only one ball on the field of play regardless on how you identify yourself.
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Their Name Is Not That Bad
They should definitely change "Bos," though. What the hell is that? Whoever came up with that had never been in this town for more than 5 minutes.
Also "Nation." Please. What the hell is that?
And "Football Club"?
What the hell is THAT?
Like I said, it's not that bad. Just needs a few tweaks.
Bos Nation
is an anagram of Bostonian.
The whole thing needs a do over.
They should write that explanation on every jersey
Otherwise nobody will notice.
Of all the many issues with this, they also appear to have abandoned their existing and actually good club badge (the one with the Zakim Bridge on it).
Just a complete shit show.
Better team names
The Storrowers
New heights FC
Tagline: "Never underestimate the Storrowers"
This is your best work
n/t
Football Club, or FC
is part of many soccer team names, worldwide.
*monkey paw curls*
The team is now known as the Beantown Ballers.
They should definitely change
Maybe they can work "Beantown" in there.
So it was perfectly OK for an
So it was perfectly OK for an anti-men campaign, but it’s a problem because “What about women who have balls?”
Title 9 Generation Angle?
I was in the first batch of girls playing lots of sports. There weren't a lot of women coaches, and 70s-80s males seemed to be AC/DC fans.
I wonder if this was a failed attempt to resonate with older athletic women who were told by male coaches to "go balls out" or "grow a pair" or "that goalie has no balls" and "that took a lot of balls"?
How is this unintentionally transphobic?
The whole ad campaign (which is awful and in poor taste) takes aim at any human with a pair of balls. That’s a much larger group than trans people.
Yeah, and it's also stupid
I think the transphobic part was a line in the ad campaign (if not on the billboards that got taken down) that went: "We are BOS Nation, where anything is possible. No balls necessary" (which is also, strictly sportswise, pretty stupid, since you can't play the game at all without at least one ball).
But I'm sure I've missed something, so somebody else feel free to jump in.
This
This is a stretch. Really.
People need to dial their pearl clutching back a bit. I knew eventually we'd get to this point... where we'd start to nitpick at things and each other. And it's only going to get worse from here.
We are getting overly sensitive at these things, especially something like this. Where it's not blatant and whether it offensive can vary from person to person.
We need to focus these energies on things that actually are blatantly racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. where the intent of whatever they said/do is to be racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.. There's plenty of that going on in this world to focus this energy to. Not this.
Someone wise said "Pick your battles wisely". Good words to live by. Not everything is a battle, not everything is worth a battle. In this age of daily discourse, we need to be very mindful of this.
Sadly, with 'rage nation' we have today, doubt anyone really will. Too easy for people to get rage over something these days.
Sigh.
It's like you've never
seen a leftist movement before. Circular firing squad, assemble!
again, i don’t understand this argument
the idea that no one should be offended by something that doesn’t offend you personally is obviously shortsighted. you said it yourself in your comment: different people have different experiences, and all perspectives are valid. there’s no finite amount of energy for addressing problematic issues – people can walk and chew gum
i feel crazy when i read things like this because the ad agency itself *voluntarily* pulled the campaign. they apologized after receiving negative feedback, which is a normal fucking response!
nobody goes “oh look, they changed sierra mist to starry, it’s those damn lefties at it again!”
the football club tried a campaign, but it didn’t work so they pulled it. it’s only being framed as hypersensitivity because it’s tied to a hot-button issue.
Your actually both right about this
It's not a big deal that they pulled the campaign. It's also something that barely rates compared to the very real threats and hatred aimed at the transgender community.
What we need to be mindful of...
What we need to be mindful of is that people make their own decisions about which battles they will pick. Your opinion about whether or not they pick wisely is completely irrelevant: they're not making you fight their battles. As my dear departed mother used to say when someone got pushy and controlling in a restaurant, "You order for you and I'll order for me."
ar women hoo hav bollz...
eeven ullowd too play in ħat leeg ?
Bad name.
Is the ongoing bad name story a contrived attempt to get attention and establish lore?
Society is too crass already.
‘Schitt’s Creek,’ Charmin Bears with shitty, itchy anuses on t.v. commercials, “I put that (beep) on everything” Frank’s Hot Sauce, and have explain to kids what the bleep is, and on and on.
Too many balls? Obviously a multi-faceted, multi-purpose euphemism, but don’t they want families to be fans? Buy merch? That slogan is NSFW and NSSF.
Is this a case of spotlight/attention hijacking?
This public private
This public private partnership turns out to be very much in line with other things this city administration is doing.
three day old profile
Martyrdom handle and female leadership slamming ... all in one package.
The team is off to a great start!
Hopefully they have better luck on the field!