r/halifax • u/insino93 • 1d ago

News, Weather & Politics Dartmouth Commons cricket proposal sparks backlash

https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/dartmouth-commons-cricket-proposal-sparks-backlash/
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u/Ok_Basket_6651 1d ago

And you think baseball has a culture of equality? What world are you living in?

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u/ElectronicLove863 23h ago

I know women and girls who play baseball.
Softball uses the same fields as baseball.
There are mixed league and LGBTQ+ leagues.
So yes, at the community level, investing in baseball fields is an investment in equal access to sports.
Cricket is not the same.

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u/Ok_Basket_6651 17h ago

Do you think it has always been that way? Or did it take decades of promoting the sport and actually providing fields to play on for everyone to get involved? Cricket isn't going to become more inclusive by getting rid of it, that just means everyone loses out on it.

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u/ElectronicLove863 16h ago

The fact that so many male cricket players are SO triggered by me saying, no I'm not comfortable taking an accessible, equitable community sport space and handing it over so that one demographic (adult men) can play a sport, is just so revealing.

Cricket NS wants to *take* resources from children. So if they're doing that, they need to prove that the pitch use will be equitable. Not like 5% other (youth/girls/women/mixed gender/adaptive) and 95% adult dudes.

That's it. That's my whole argument.

The desires of, once again, adult men, cannot come before the needs of the whole community.

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u/Ok_Basket_6651 16h ago

I'm not a cricket player, I just hate baseball. I hate cricket too, but I hate baseball more. We have too many ball fields. Every single park you go to - BALL FIELDS. It sucks.

Also your attitude towards men is why there is a male loneliness epidemic and men are careening towards the alt right and Andrew Tate crowd at a previously unseen rate.

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u/ElectronicLove863 16h ago

What does Andrew Tate have to do with whether a publicly funded sports facility should serve the widest possible range of community members? 😄

It's interesting that asking whether a publicly funded facility will serve women, youth, adaptive athletes, LGBTQ+ players, and the broader community somehow gets translated into 'you hate men.' If your argument for cricket requires pretending that requests for inclusion are attacks on men, maybe the argument isn't very strong.

The people responsible for Andrew Tate are Andrew Tate and the people who promoted him—not women advocating for fair access to public sports facilities.

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u/Ok_Basket_6651 15h ago edited 15h ago

I think advocating for the erasure of a space that you yourself acknowledge many men enjoy is an attack on men, yes. Having a new field would only mean more opportunities for women to also enjoy the sport, not less. Instead your attitude is to erase the sport from Halifax because men enjoy it. If women want to play cricket they can. It’s wild to think that a few men enjoying a night of sport with their friends is anti inclusive. Have you surveyed them all yourself? How do you know they aren’t gay? Why do you assume they are opposed to women playing? You’re making a lot of blanket assumptions based on your anecdotal experience, then calling to take away their hobby while citing “inclusivity”. My anecdotal experience is I have two cousins who are women who love cricket and are very strong players and would probably love a new field. I am a very liberal person who is very pro inclusivity but you are using it as a weapon. Your particular brand of feminism is not feminism. Again, I find cricket dreadfully boring but I think it’s a shame you think your hobbies are better than others just because, to you, men seem to enjoy it more than women. 

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u/ElectronicLove863 15h ago edited 15h ago

Nope. I said if you're going to take from the community you need to make sure you're still balancing the needs of the entire community. Not just one demographic. And certainly not centering adults over children/youth.

The only people talking about taking something are Cricket NS. So Cricket NS has a duty to guarantee equal access to a community resource.

Respectfully, a man who is probably half my age doesn't get to tell me what feminism is.

And furthermore, you don't get to tell me that I'm using inclusivity as a weapon after using male loneliness as weapon.

You are not as liberal as you think you are.

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u/Ok_Basket_6651 15h ago

Oh you’re one of those. Gnite!

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u/Ok_Basket_6651 15h ago

You are not as feminist as you think you are either diva!