Good girl?

Brendan Rodgers in hot water for saying “good girl” to a female reporter, what’s world coming to?

 

Shes already addressed it said he didn't mean it in that way and she took no offence

 

Without trying to be flippant about it as its down to the individual and whether they've taken offence he's probably learned a harsh lesson but some feminist group has made such a noise about it, the reporter in question has spoken to BR and said they've laughed about it and there's no issue.

 

Yep the feminist group look stupid for me now the reporter laughed it off

 

Not really. She's not a girl, would he have said good boy to a male reporter? Hopefully he's learned something in how to address women that comes across less patronising.

 

I address most people by the term love, if that gets me in bother then I'll have to stop talking to people. It's time we started using a bit of common sense instead of trying to label everyone and everything. I despair at times

 

Fair enough if you address everyone the same.

 

I just think we are too sensitive these days, good man, good lad , good boy, I feel certain groups are out there just waiting to jump on people if they say anything that can be remotely seen as offensive. It was mentioned on talksport this morning that 70 plus percent of views expressed about the incident were of the opinion that the feminist group were wrong for bringing this up. I bet if you ask the reporter in question if she was offended then the reply would be no. To me this is a non story and best forgot

 

As several on here know, I'm a regular in the Curry Mahal in Dodworth. Until recently there was a 17 year old female waiter working there. If I cleared my plate she would often say "Good Boy!" to me when she took it away. I'm 68, so being a boy is not one of my attributes. I found it funny and not in the least offensive, but perhaps if I'd made a fuss I could have got a free curry? Opportunity missed!!

 

She has said no. She said he didn't mean anything by it and she's taken no offense. Problem is now, she might get hate from anti-feminist groups for this going round despite already saying it meant nothing.

 

She won’t if they bother to read the full story, you are just making an assumption there

 

Well said Helen. Hopefully he has realised his error

 

I get called love all the time from ladies in the shop. They call women 'flower'. It's just a term of endearment. I think it's always fairly obvious when something is either just tongue in cheek, a term of endearment or just a phrase/word they use often compared to when someone is being patronising/insulting.

 

How many times have you seen people, especially online, write about things based on headlines? You didn't know about it, and you made an assumption about the reporter saying she probably took no offense. It happens all the time. I don't mean genuine people just talking about it when I say anti-feminist, I mean the proper hardcore idiots who have no brain.

 

Fair doos,.....anyway let’s move on, cmon Wigan/Charlton!!!!

 

Good boy

 

Good lad!

 

If he'd have said good lad (to a bloke) nobody would have batted an eyelid though?

 

A bit of a difference between lad/lass and girl in that you just don't use the opposite boy in that situation

 

If someone asked you not to call them love, you could just respect that and not call them it again. Saying you’d have to stop talking to people is just a daft exaggeration.