Vatican cancels women's team debut match amidst pro choice protest

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The new Vatican women’s squad was announced with great fanfare in May to combat criticism that the church was not doing enough to include women in key positions amid major scandals over the sexual abuse of nuns by members of the clergy.

But as the Vatican anthem was played before the assembled teams, several of the players and suppoters from Austrian team Mariahilf lifted their jerseys to expose diagrams of female reproductive organs.

One Austrian player had written “My body, my rule” on her back and banners with “Against Homophobia” were unfurled by spectators in the stands.

The pope’s new envoy to Austria, Monsignor Pedro Lopez Quintana, was watching from the sidelines as the umpire abandoned the match before the whistle was even blown.

“The game was called off because we are here for the sport, and not for political or other messages”, public broadcaster ORF quoted Danilo Zennaro, a representative of the Vatican sports association, as saying.

A player from the Austrian capital’s Mariahilf women’s team said they hadn’t expected the protest action to lead to the game to be scrapped.
 
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It’s bad sportsmanship to use a sporting match as a political platform. It’s supposed to be about two teams playing a game. Only.
 
How is this helping the women be set free from fixed mindsets that leave them feel inferior to men? I don’t understand.
So the politics are so intense that a group of women is convinced that representing themselves as a sum of their physic organs actually means respect for women? And don’t tell me abortion and feminism are two different things because if they are different they shouldn’t be, because birth and problems around it are a part of a woman’s life. If the battle for abortion leads to women loosing respect for themselves and makes them ready to inflict self-objectification in order to gain a cause then maybe it is a sign that things have gone too far.
I know most of us are more emotional than men, which leaves us in a delicate position. We should protect ourselves and not allow ourselves to become a slave-army for any political cause that may intend to use us as such.
 
I know most of us are more emotional than men, which leaves us in a delicate position.
Excuse me? I just shake my head when I read these kinds of generalizations in the year 2019. Sorry.

Time for me to exit this thread. I hope the Vatican team will continue refusing to play when others at the match decide to use the occasion for protest instead of enjoyment of a game.
 
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I just shake my head when I read these kinds of generalizations in the year 2019.
Why are we supposed to run away from generalizations as a whole in science? Can anyone explain this? I don’t understand.
Why is okay for you insinuate I am behind times in thinking and why is it wrong for me to take offense at it?
Double standard all the way.
 
It’s a generalization that women are more emotional than men. A stereotype.
 
The article must be a translation from another language an umpire is in baseball.

A referee is for soccer.
 
It is true that women are more emotional than men, but for a stereotype reason. Men are told not to show emotion for fear of looking weak.

Thus we the men have to hide our emotions or be mocked.

Is it good? Nope, but that is where we are.
 
“I can’t imagine why the game was scraped after our team and fans explicitly insulted the other team’s religion and hurled slurs at them during their anthem. I am shocked-shocked I tell you!”
 
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