Leading by example

[Kitty]

Bit less of the chitty chat, people (I wanted to say lads, but now women are posting we're no doubt end up with a class action lawsuit on our hands. Bring back the good old days when the only birds you ever saw at a tournament were the ones you paid 20 euros to dance).

I am of course being a tw@t.

Are we defining top teams in the terms of ability?

Now the quote and responce to this can be found under the top ten teams thread - but to prevent the chitty chat continuing i decided to repost on here.

Firstly I would like to say this is far from an attack on the mods, the mods on here all do a great job and set a damn good example to those new to the scene, but Mr Stongle here has really wound me up.

With p8ntballer becomming ever more popular surely the mods should be setting examples rather than belittling the women in the sport. Im not a overt feminist, infact i probably wouldnt even class myself as feminist at all but people should be encouraging others into the sport regardless of age / gender and a statement like that should be taken seriously.

We all joke about women being worse than men at the sport - and it can be fun to jest but on a forum tones are very hard to determine which is why we have smileys and often take a moment to re-think before we click that magical post button. There are some great female players around the world, you only have to look at shelly, alicia and kat to see that. Take a look accross the poind at Destiny (US) an all female team - they have just signed a 15 year old girl they may not be pro but they are still new and my god they train hard, surley they deserve respect in ability? woman are and always will be apart of paintball, so maybe you should think before you post, cause numbers of us are only going to increase.

Bring back the good old days when the only birds you ever saw at a tournament were the ones you paid 20 euros to dance

I see no humour in this statement. If you dont want women in the tourneys set up a male only one.

The attitude that woman over-react and should only be around the sport for entertainment is damn stupid - some will probably read this and say I am over-reacting! but am I? People work so hard to open up the sport to women, including myself and its a hard sport to manage when you are female. We arent stupid and know its male dominated and know that it probably always will be but why just judge like that? Had someone else said a comment like that they would have gotten a warning or something, are rules different for mods?



Please keep responces in an adult and mature tone, the mods do do a good job and we all make mistakes sometimes I just felt this needed to be voiced.

 

[J.E_Bend]

I concur... €20 will hardly get you a dance these days!

It was €50 for all the trimmings out in Malaga as I understand it

 

[DEADEYEx54x]

I will agree with you Kitty, whos to judge. Paintball is an open sport and EVERYONE should be helping promote the sport in a positive way to ALL genders *Including the Mods*.

Well said Kitty

 

[Kat]

I concur... €20 will hardly get you a dance these days!

It was €50 for all the trimmings out in Malaga as I understand it

You have fully missed the point....

 

[Kitty]

he has missed the point, but proven mine - but the rate sounds about right lol

But seriously Kittys angry lol

 

[Devrij]

I'm a big fan of women in the sport. There's too much dick-swinging as it is and much as I love penis jokes I think a bit of variety is needed. So yeah, not a very cool post, but tbh this looks like a simple case of a lack of smilies and forethought. God knows I've done it, but I guess the path is narrower for mods.

 

[balf]

This thread needs more Robbo.

 

[xx_charlotte_xx]

paintball is a sport that both male and female's play. yes there are more male's play but when comments like that get made it's not hard to see why sometimes.

 

[Cook$]

I think you missed the humour/sarcasm in his post. He even said he was being a tw@t. And his last "Are we defining top teams in the terms of ability?" was nothing to do with women, but regarding the thread, and are defining the top teams as far as ability, or image.
You do have a case for asking why he had to make the "(I wanted to say lads, but now women are posting we're no doubt end up with a class action lawsuit on our hands. Bring back the good old days when the only birds you ever saw at a tournament were the ones you paid 20 euros to dance)." but I think this was just abit of humour you may not have found funny, not a dig at women.

 

[Kitty]

but what he said was wrong hun I see he admitted to being a **** lol it was the only part i agreed with. But had the comment come from someone else in the forum people would have jumped on him. What im saying is as a mod you have a bit more responsibility to set an example - im all for lap dancers at events