One of the Victory Academy kids liked a video which was pretty much slandering women’s football, in particular Meikayla Moore from the Football Ferns (New Zealand national team).
The video starts off with this TikTok clip of a woman no one’s heard of yapping about something (I doubt she’s a reputable source, plenty of TikTok creators have stupid takes), then a TTS voice using that as evidence that women no nothing about football, then going on about Football Ferns defender Meikayla Moore being shit for scoring a hat-trick of own goals against the USWNT (which was obviously a shit moment for her, but it was many years ago), followed by the video pretty much summing that up as evidence of her being a shit player, women’s football being shit and then some drivel about equal pay.
I get that it’s not everyone’s thing and I’m all for jokes (even edgy ones) but it seemed like the creator was just tryna spur sexism (and the video wasn’t remotely funny). Like you could easily joke about or criticise Meikayla Moore’s hat-trick of own goals without fuelling a misogynistic comment section. And the thing is if he ever plays in the A-League he may have to come across her when she eventually comes back and will certainly come across women’s footballers at media events or awards shows. In saying that, I probably can’t judge him too much as he’s only a teenager. Hopefully he learns from his mistakes.
