Potentially an offensive one but I am censoring each word best I can without losing it's meaning.
I encounter a lot of the slurs listed below when refereeing grassroots (amateur, sunday and county league) games and have got into the habit of giving the benefit of the doubt. i.e. I tell the player if I hear them use it again they'll be off. I am frequently met by bafflement because they simply do not think or realise these words are slurs (or that they have that effect). Not really sure how else to approach it because I am finding even these warnings are undermining me and I'm not sure the average sunday league winger is ready for a lesson on where a slur comes from.
M*ng
R*tard
Sp*z/Sp*ck
Q*eer
Tr*nny
D*wny/ie
Most of these are disability related which is probably the least talked about demographic when it comes to discrimination on the pitch so I understand the lack of knowledge but as someone who became a ref because of an incident with one of these slurs and is disabled, it feels wrong to just ignore it because it happens everywhere else in society.
I encounter a lot of the slurs listed below when refereeing grassroots (amateur, sunday and county league) games and have got into the habit of giving the benefit of the doubt. i.e. I tell the player if I hear them use it again they'll be off. I am frequently met by bafflement because they simply do not think or realise these words are slurs (or that they have that effect). Not really sure how else to approach it because I am finding even these warnings are undermining me and I'm not sure the average sunday league winger is ready for a lesson on where a slur comes from.
M*ng
R*tard
Sp*z/Sp*ck
Q*eer
Tr*nny
D*wny/ie
Most of these are disability related which is probably the least talked about demographic when it comes to discrimination on the pitch so I understand the lack of knowledge but as someone who became a ref because of an incident with one of these slurs and is disabled, it feels wrong to just ignore it because it happens everywhere else in society.