The game is in a neutral country for both teams.
Misogyny runs deeper than religion.
Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.
A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men. . . It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices?. . . a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.
Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters.
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
It is not always easy for a young player to come through at the club level, because all the clubs are able to buy for 20 million or 30 million and it is hard for young English talent to come through and to get recognition and be able to be part of the squad or start playing.
One thing that I learned in recent years from working more with other people is this idea that part of a producer's job is to make people comfortable and confident.