Tuesday, June 19, 2012

a beard for Germany

A couple of days before the beginning of teh eropean male football championship in poland an the ukraine in june/july 2012 an advert attrackted attention in Germany. The coach of Borussia Dortmund, a sucessfull german team, Jürgen Klopp appealed German soccer fans to show their support towards the national team by growing their beard as long as the German team is in the competition.
Since women, most of the time, do not have a very pleasant beard growth this is a way of showing sympathy and patriotism for Germany exclusively for men. This sexistic, next to patriotic, action which adresses men as football fans only is definately not something we'd like to watch on tv.
Although this is really not something I'd like to advertise, I've decided to link the video to enable everyone to see this example for the excluding of female football fans.


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