Holly Wainwright

And his words were, a game like this, he got asked whether or not he thought it should have been umpired by a woman, by a magazine called Clay Magazine.

And he said, it has to be refereed by a man.

Because it's a very demanding crowd and you need a lot of strength to go against the crowd.

It's not normal for the crowd to be shouting for a full minute without any play in a match where the physical aspect matters so much.

If you give a player a lot of time, he's going to take advantage of it.

So basically, he's making the point that an umpire, a big part of what a tennis umpire does is they tell the crowd to shut up.

And what he's insinuating here is the crowd wouldn't listen because the umpire was a woman.

Thoughts.

He lost this match.

He did.

Even though he went to Notes app and apologised on Instagram.

Okay, but here's a tiny devil's advocate here, right?

What if his point that he's making, which is that the crowd isn't listening to her, doesn't that tell you a truth about the crowd?

Because maybe it's true.

I reckon too that there would be some boy mums who would be policing the identity of boy mum and say maybe you have to have only boys to be a boy mum.

Yeah, actually that's true.

But...

You know, whatever.

Yeah.

I do have, although there are issues with this which we'll get to, I do have an issue with people policing parental affection on the internet.