A male Wikipedia editor reversed my edit, and I can't fight back or else risk being banned. I changed the men's-only list of French football players (titled List of France international footballers) to say List of France men's international footballers. This should be uncontroversial.
The women's page is called List of France women's international footballers.
The views the men's page got in the past 20 days, while it was titled as if it was a gender-neutral list, List of France international footballers: 175 views, 161 views, 180 views, 214 views, 220 views, 186 views, 198 views, 216 views, 220 views, 177 views, 168 views, 207 views, 228 views, 218 views, 192 views, 351 views, 378 views, 318 views, 266 views, 165 views, (then here is where I changed the name to List of France men's international footballers) 74 views.
Wikipedia purposely lies to trick people into believing List of France international footballers will be all the major footballers in France, when it is men only. The pattern in page views shows crystal clearly people are NOT searching for the men's content. When the page is properly labeled to point out it's about men's sports players, it gets FEWER VIEWS.
The worst part isn't just male Wikipedia editors deliberately lying to you. This is men in every station since the beginning of media. They have always been falsely hyping up men's sports and brushing aisde women's sports.
Not to mention this same male editor erased 2 hours and 15 minutes of my work adding a minor amount of information (linking and checking all the dates took me forever lol) to the page Football in France, because adding some short info about women threatens the men's status as the primary importance of the Football in France article. That was literally his reason for deleting. Wikipedia straight up erases information if it's about the oh so unimportant female sex.
Since I'm completely ignoring Sunday's match, has the FFF or D1 released any new info on how the playoffs for the upcoming season are gonna work? I know they said the top 4 teams would play semi finals but do we know whether this would be 1 v 4, 2 v 3 and where the semis/final would be held? Neutral venue like Coupe de France or highest ranked team hosts?
I’m out of the loop with club football at the moment but as far as I know, the SF/finals will be held in stadiums of the highest ranked clubs.
The naming of women's and men's teams on Instagram is infuriating.
I follow @olfeminin so it should pop right up in my search. I typed in Lyon and automatically clicked the men's thinking it was the women's because it was the only result.
If I was less familiar with women's football, I probably would not even have known I clicked the wrong account. A lot of people don't know these teams, they're new to this, they might have just thought it was the account for the whole club but it's just posting men right now. They might not know there is a women's team at all.
I went back and typed in Lyon feminin. Nothing. Lyon women. Nothing. I typed in the entire name Olympique Lyonnais Feminin. Nothing. Then I finally remembered the exact name of the account is OL Feminin. I had to type in the EXACT name from my OWN MEMORY for it to even pop up.
How is anyone supposed to find this account??? Lack of accessibility to women's sports is horrendous.
As mad and disappointed I am with being out of the French cup I hope this will be a wake up call for Lyon that things are simply not working right now.
I mean yes they've been winning, they've been decent and yes a lot of players are missing but it feels like they solely rely on having star players who will somehow always find a way to win. The issue is you can only go so far with pure talent. Their biggest advantage is that they have way too much talent and quality compared to the majority of their opponents. But that will only save them so many times. They've been winning but if you actually watch their matches only a handful of those wins were confident, comfortable, and convincing wins.
For a team like Lyon it is unacceptable to not be in the cup final. And with the CL knockouts and the league play-offs coming the question is will they finally change something or will Lyon's glory slowly fade away as they cannot keep up with the growth of the game?
I really hope it's the former because it is a club that deserves to shine.