# Proposal to explicitly ban sexism from the game room **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 9, 2021, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-to-explicitly-ban-sexism-from-the-game-room/948338 "2021-08-09T21:09:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-to-explicitly-ban-sexism-from-the-game-room/948338/28 "2021-08-11T10:04:20Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > Mine too. I haven’t voted yet, because while I support the idea in theory, many people seem to have much more expansive definitions of the concept than I do. I’d like to know what exactly I’d be endorsing before deciding how to vote. I have to be honest and say I simply didn’t see anything remotely objectionable about the comment that started this whole thing, either - people are really getting upset at someone describing women’s sport as “unwatchable” and instead of going “Well OK, that’s a bit hyperbolic but yes, I take your view that you don’t find women’s sport to be nearly as ‘watchable’ as the men’s counterpart” and moving on, we’re here. I mean, there’s a pit thread [“Air Canada is the worst carrier ever”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-canada-is-the-worst-carrier-ever/948350/10), a statement that is objectively not true and in the same vein as the comment that started this thread, and at best the OP in the Air Canada thread is getting a couple of gentle disagreements with the idea they might be the worst airline ever. What no-one in that thread is doing is losing their shit over what is clearly a hyperbolic statement, and I’m really not sure why that thread is getting a pass on the hyperbole but the topic in this one isn’t, especially when the view that started this thread isn’t considered particularly controversial by a very large number of people. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposal-to-explicitly-ban-sexism-from-the-game-room/948338)._