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With the Rugby vs Cricket T20 match just around the corner, social activist Ruby Galbraith is calling on people within her echo chamber to get annoyed about it.
The annual sporting event that pits current and former professional rugby players against very retired cricketers is no stranger to controversy. The Alternative Commentary Collective (the ACC) tends to cop the brunt of public anger, mostly from the 60+ demographic.
While most sports fans born in the post war baby boom can see the commentary for what it is, there are a few who absolutely hate it. They believe sport must be taken completely seriously at all times, especially cricket, and there is no room for “clowns who don’t know what they’re bloody talking about”.
There are also people from that age range generally annoyed that their ritual of watching “The Chase” before the six o’clock news has been interrupted.
This year however, Wellington’s own cultural thought leader Ruby Galbraith, 33, says more people from her own generation should take a stand against the ACC.
“Oh wow, the ACC are back again (eye roll). They’re just a bunch of blokey sexist MEN who think they’re being funny talking about sportsball,” she tweeted to her echo chamber of 500+ loyalists.
“More of us need to stand up to this kind of toxic masculinity. Honestly I don’t think men should even be allowed to talk to each other in small groups. They can’t be trusted.”
When reporters reached out to Galbraith to unpick some of her assertions, she declined to comment, but issued the following statement, again via her X (formerly Twitter) account.
“Umm, okay I just got asked by a so-called ‘journalist’ to ‘clarify my position’ on why the ACC are a bunch of toxic sexist misogynists. As if I would amplify their platform by adding fuel to their fire.”
Ms. Galbraith will have to wait and see whether the millennial generation joins her in her campaign against the ACC team. In the meantime the Broadcasting Standards Authority apparently has extra staff rostered on next week to deal with the yearly flood of boomer disgust.
More to come.
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