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"Lewis Piper said Frost remained in the male changing room after the incident. "If she was distressed surely she would have gone to her own room and hid away?" he said."
Why the hell should she?
Why the hell should she?
Ahh you have to hide away to be distressed, noted.
Agree. BHA have a case to answer however in respect of changing facilities. If the valets were in the female changing area and men felt free to walk in and out when women were changing there would be an outcry. The valets should be in a neutral area where people visiting them should be required to display a modicum of decorum.They couldn't have used a worse term than hid away.
My take on that would be - if she was offended by men walking around stark bullock naked then she would have swiftly left the male changing room. But the turn of phrase - Hid Away - is doing nothing for this case other than to make even more men look bad.
Agree. BHA have a case to answer however in respect of changing facilities. If the valets were in the female changing area and men felt free to walk in and out when women were changing there would be an outcry. The valets should be in a neutral area where people visiting them should be required to display a modicum of decorum.
^ This. Maybe the male jockeys don't always want women wandering in to 'their' changing rooms either!
I'm not saying Dunne is squeaky clean, but if I was on a horse that was fatally injured in a fall where I perceived another jockey to be at fault then I'd blow my lid at them too. I expect he would have spoken to a male jockey in the same way if it had been someone else perceived to be at fault. Racing is dangerous - people need to know if they're riding dangerously. They clearly don't get on (and from the looks of it, a lot of people in racing don't like Frost) - gender doesn't seem to come into it?
Ah, so it’s ok to be abusive and threatening to someone you don’t like. You’d get on well with my ex-boss.
If it was a one-off, heat-of-the-moment thing I’d say shouting at someone if you perceive their negligence to have killed a horse you were riding and endangered your life isn’t that unreasonable?
Yes, it should be the stewards job to do that. Yes, he has stepped over the line by persistently hounding her.
Please re-read my post. I never said it was acceptable just because you didn’t like someone… I said they clearly didn’t like each other but gender didn’t seem to come into it?
^ This. Maybe the male jockeys don't always want women wandering in to 'their' changing rooms either!
I'm not saying Dunne is squeaky clean, but if I was on a horse that was fatally injured in a fall where I perceived another jockey to be at fault then I'd blow my lid at them too. I expect he would have spoken to a male jockey in the same way if it had been someone else perceived to be at fault. Racing is dangerous - people need to know if they're riding dangerously. They clearly don't get on (and from the looks of it, a lot of people in racing don't like Frost) - gender doesn't seem to come into it?
As OP apologies my bad for poor thread header. I stand corrected it is indeed BHA v Dunne.
Every single race is scrutinised by the stewards, they look into every incidence and every fall to see if blame can be attached. It’s a dangerous sport and safety is paramount, I have never been aware of Bryony being a danger to anyone and if she was the stewards would come down very heavily on her.Well neither of them are coming out of this looking good! I think the blowing up at her after his horse died could probably be taken out of the equation but if he has bullied and intimidated her at other times then he needs to pay the price for that, and if her riding is regularly as dangerous as him and now maybe others are staring then instead of letting rip they need to be reporting each and every occasion of this for her to be dealt with.
She's stuck up her own backside, expects people to bow down before her and isn't a nice person when there isn't a camera pointed at her. First hand experience.
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No one deserves to be bullied, no one deserves to be threatened or treated badly. No one deserves to be judged before the full story is heard.
There are 2 sides to this story. Only 1 side has been heard so far.
if her riding is regularly as dangerous as him and now maybe others are staring then instead of letting rip they need to be reporting each and every occasion of this for her to be dealt with.
But it wasn’t a one off thing that’s the problem. He has carried on amusing himself by being a bully for several years…..If it was a one-off, heat-of-the-moment thing I’d say shouting at someone if you perceive their negligence to have killed a horse you were riding and endangered your life isn’t that unreasonable?
Yes, it should be the stewards job to do that. Yes, he has stepped over the line by persistently hounding her.
Please re-read my post. I never said it was acceptable just because you didn’t like someone… I said they clearly didn’t like each other but gender didn’t seem to come into it?
There's a lot of ignorance over it too. Just yesterday I was reading a post on LinkedIn with someone complaining about a girls only go-karting session, claiming it was discrimination. Although one or two people (white and male, no surprises there) agreed with the post, there were more people arguing against it and saying about the need for safe spaces in which people can practise sport (or do other things). You'd think the racism in cricket scandal would have shown that poster why some people might prefer segregated spaces, but apparently not...I'm doing a fair amount of work at the moment for Women in Sport, and not only my own experiences, but all the others I'm hearing, shows that this type of behaviour is alive and kicking. It's aided and abetted by those who choose to overlook it, see it as the way it's always been, are too scared of the bullies to call them out, or too scared (usually other women) of becoming the next target.
And the women who do stand up, do expose the bullies, do call into question the integrity of their organisations and their whole sport, they are never considered a victim, they are just gobby opinionated entitled females who are only out to cause trouble and attention seek. Been there, lost my job over it.
I'm doing a fair amount of work at the moment for Women in Sport, and not only my own experiences, but all the others I'm hearing, shows that this type of behaviour is alive and kicking. It's aided and abetted by those who choose to overlook it, see it as the way it's always been, are too scared of the bullies to call them out, or too scared (usually other women) of becoming the next target.
And the women who do stand up, do expose the bullies, do call into question the integrity of their organisations and their whole sport, they are never considered a victim, they are just gobby opinionated entitled females who are only out to cause trouble and attention seek. Been there, lost my job over it.
And another sportswoman on the receiving end https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...judo-stars-coach-cleared-of-domestic-violence.