Ditch the sport of watching female fans

TWITTER was on fire the night of the awful Brazil defeat to Germany, with many terrible jokes about not being able to take it and Neymar; but really it was not funny at all when you think of all those stadiums that were built instead of schools and hospitals, and then the poor host country getting annihilated at home by a 22-legged Teutonic goal machine.

Ditch the sport of watching female fans

As the entire stadium at Belo Horizonte was experiencing collective post-traumatic stress disorder by half time, it was interesting to see how this latest sporting disaster was reported — via close-ups of crying female fans. David Luiz aside, when the TV cameras panned around the stadium, they zoomed in on weeping women.

Throughout the World Cup the cameras zoomed in on female football fans, providing they were young and good looking, then hovered just a moment too long. Their male equivalents were ignored. Why? Is it because all sports camera operators are slightly creepy heterosexual males? Or are they just carrying out orders, to seek out pretty female faces — especially if they are attached to jiggling female bodies — and then linger on them? Is there some kind of policy at the production meetings where someone says, “Right chaps, you know what to do — film the football but make sure you get loads of ladies in there too. No mingers, though — just the cute twentysomethings. And NO HOT BOYS, other than the ones on the pitch. Otherwise that would be too gay. Got it?”

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