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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

FIFA President Gianni Infantino says women should “pick the right battles” to “convince us, men, what we have to do” over equality issues in soccer.

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[-] Zoldyck@discuss.online 64 points 1 year ago

He's such an evil piece of shit.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

You have to be a certain sort to run a sports league racket. You've gotta enable not your own corruption but the corruption of the national leagues under you.

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 54 points 1 year ago

I don’t know why I even clicked on this thread. I have no interest in reading about this guy. Everything I’ve heard about him indicates he’s an asshole, and the quote in the headline only serves as more evidence.

It’s 2023, for fuck’s sake. Women shouldn’t have to take any extra steps to be treated as equals, especially if it involves meeting this prick’s standards.

[-] rynzcycle@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

I clicked to read comments like this. Well done mate, dude's a prick.

[-] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The 'right battle' would be beat the shit out of him, but other options might work.

[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago
[-] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

What a fucking piece of shit.

Very apt that he's named "Infantino" because this (amongst other things) proves he thinks like a fucking infant.

[-] ElZoido@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Does he mean he needs more kickbacks from them to do anything?

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

It's hard to stop patronizing women when you've been patronizing women your whole life.

[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey dickhole, educate your damn self. What the fuck are you president of anything for if you can't even lead yourself to a fresh thought?

If you can't do it, which you seem to be admitting here, and you need a woman to lead you to the correct way of thinking, step down and let a woman do the leading from the office of FIFA President. Maybe if you ask nicely and show a willingness to learn, she'll hire you as a secretary or something, but only if you remember to smile.

[-] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

So you're saying that if he changes anything, he will personally lose out. He rose to the top of the previous system, there's not a lot of motivation to mess with that.

[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm saying that if he wants to be a leader he needs to do the work to lead. There was a series of thoughts in the comment above. You're only replying to part of the comment, but the rest of the comment was important too.

[-] Narrrz@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

no, women do currently need to pick their battles. this is not the way things should be.

[-] halfempty@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

The salient piece of info I got from the article is that players of Women's soccer currently get 1/4 of the pay that players of men's soccer get.

[-] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Because women's football doesn't bring as much money as man's, sadly.

[-] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Looks like a big lardy mob cunt. Wreck em every time you can.

[-] rynzcycle@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I don't quite know what you said, but I'm pretty sure I'm in complete agreement.

[-] Ornwen@mstdn.social 4 points 1 year ago

@MicroWave Honestly the only thing I want Infantino to do in the fight for equality is STFU

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I want him to fight a hungry bear in a 1v1.

[-] elouboub@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Did anybody here even read the article? Anyone?

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