Louise McSharry

And it's not even a big deal.

And like, it is a big deal.

And it's a big deal, especially because, you know, the male hockey players have come out and many of them, I saw one of them actually properly apologize.

And he said, look, that was bad.

We shouldn't have, you know, whatever.

Most of them though have made excuses and talked about how they're no we're like really close with the women's hockey team we've trained together we you know we've spent so much time supporting them they supported us like we're like one big team kind of vibe and that makes it worse in my opinion because if you are out in public you are supportive of your team.

you know female friends you know all that what happened does is confirm that we can't trust men behind closed doors because they'll still be making gross jokes or they'll be laughing along with the gross jokes and honestly laughing along with the gross jokes is just as bad as making the gross jokes and honestly just shows you to be so incredibly spineless and look it's not fun to be the fun police like I know Gordon has spoken to me about this before a bit like

And occasionally he would find himself in, I think we've talked about this before, he'd find himself in a kind of WhatsApp group of lads for whatever reason and someone might make a joke that's, you know, not unsavory to say the least and, you know, just not funny.

And he's like, I don't like having to be the person who's like, hey, that's not okay or that's not cool.

He's like, but I also...

I'm not going to just let these things be said.

And sorry, but that's how it needs to be.

Like if you are a quote unquote good man, and if you do respect and care about your, you know, these women who you have trained beside and who, you know, apparently you respect on the same level as yourselves, then why would you laugh?

at that entirely disrespectful comment, whether it's a joke or not.

Like, and I think, yeah, for women athletes, for female athletes, I just feel like so sorry for the women who are working, you know, many of them for their entire career.

Particularly, I saw Abby Wambach, the American, she's a retired soccer player, but very successful soccer players, done a lot for women in sports.

Just speaking with such frustration, just the feeling of like, what is it going to take?

to get a little bit of respect like when will we be seen as people you know and not the laughing stock of a sport and you know it's just devastating to think that we're still at this point when you know we feel like we're making progress

Exactly.

Yeah.