Are you a woman then?

I haven't seen any sexism around. You should report their comment, Lucy,

Perhaps you could change your username? That way no-one's aware of your gender.

I think most people respect you regardless what gender you are. You give good advice I think. There will always be a few idiots on the internet - keyboard warriors, etc. Just ignore them. 🙂

I'm sure a lot respect you, you're a good poster.

Its fine, I'll treat you the same 🙂

*guys/gals 😉

Respect. I have no problem taking advice regardless of age / gender / race or whatever. Should be the same for everyone.

I dont care if a poster is male or female. A lot of posters hide behind their names, to hide who they really are im sure there are lots of female and posters. Dont take it any disagreements or banter personally or as sexism. If youre a guy or a girl who cares.

I agree with you, Lucy. There's always been a subtext of laddish banter on this site and the virtual complete absence of women is a result of this.

The moderators deal with the most blatant examples of this but are by no means as hardline on sexism as they are on racist comments and (occasionally, but not always) homophobia.

Absolutely agree. Well said. There are several other ladies here too, by the way.

Well said.

Whats your PhD?

And internet is the hiding place for all kinds of idiots. Me i get pissed when i see revered/asteemed members constantly trolling, i can't i agine how boring a life must be to use hours a day to wind up users, espescially newbies and if they fon't have a grav it's a contest to wind the person....
But then again, this is internet, home of the cowardly anonymous ppl that irl has nothing to come up with..... it is just hard to accept and one should not

FFS T&Cs:
'Harassment, defamatory remarks, abuse, threatening behaviour, harmful, obscene, sexist, sexually oriented, homophobic, racially offensive or any objectionable material, will not be tolerated'

I think it's pathetic that you've received condescending mockery from posters here, especially when one bears in mind that you are THE person to go to for Southampton info and people are often seen asking if you're around.

However, this is a huge social issue that goes deeper than FFS. Clubs, the FA etc can only do so much. The issue is people are idiots. I've been to Stamford Bridge and seen racist comments made at black players by Chelsea fans and the seen them praise the black player who tackles the abused, all whilst the imbecile holds his son's hand; I've had Chelsea fans tell me that Terry is a legend for racially insulting Ferdinand and laughed about it.

I'm not saying that one prejudice is worse than the other, but if racism is till going on when it is arguably looked upon by society as more taboo than sexism, then things are gonna take centuries to change. The issue is society is full of morons and many of these said morons flock to football. Sadly, that includes here too, but the best way we can deal with them is just boot em off the site: zero tolerance.

Why isn't this post stickied?

I know I don't but if I do wind you up from time to time, it is not because you are a woman, it is because I am a Glaswegian and we like to wind people up. 😉

Shameful that this is not hulked, but as Doosra said " policyholders value winning over everything else".
This regarding the trolling from above, not the sexism but of coursf that to should get this hulked like bruce banner pissed of

Really appreciate all the advice and insight you give to the community about Southampton, Lucy. Keep up the good work.

Anyone who is female put an 'F' before your username so we can get used to who we are talking to, it will all balance out then.

Nice to see some moderation taking place, even on this post. What a good start. Many thanks to Jonty! Maybe he can brief fellow mods and managers on the right way to deal with these things, particularly the ones that cast the issues as irrelevant.

This is a fantastic post. Well said Lucy.

It is, however, still prevalent in the workplace and normal day life, so unfortunately it's always likely to occurs on a website forum where users can hide behind an avatar.

Hopefully, your post will go some way in changing the mentality on this website forum at the least.

Hat off.

Hooray! It is a hot topic! Well done, Lucy.

Your introduction, the irony. 😆

Great post. http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/08/19/scout-notes-gameweek-1-monday-3/?hc_page=14#hc_comment_7980023 Was already on your side before it 😉

very well said Lucy 🙂

this post is a great reminder to us all of our moral obligations...discrimination of any sort is not on...racism is the main thing that people care about, but homophobia and sexism are just as important issues...

most people appreciate your work a lot too 🙂

Bit late on this one. You shouldn't have to stand for it and it is completely unacceptable behaviour, but sadly still prevalent in today's society.

It's good that you let the mods know about it though and that's the best way forward. I've been involved with trying to moderate a large site before and it's very tricky without the users themselves helping out with reporting abuse - I do believe that the mods are strongly against this behaviour, they just can't police everything by themselves.

Hope you stick around and things improve for you, get the idiots banned and then enjoy your experience on the site 🙂

Crikey. This post is going to lead a revolt outside the House of Commons. I can see it now. Together as one, men and women of FFS.

Hey Lucy

I hope I haven't personally caused offence or promoted sexism on the site either through action or inaction, but as part of the moderation team (I think we're all still confused as to how that happened) I should shoulder some of the responsibility for this. I've noticed one or two remarks recently which have been aimed at you and not acceptable - those were dealt with, I can't speak for any of the other posts you may be alluding to unfortunately. As to the general culture/tone of the site; that's a much harder problem to identify and tackle, doesn't mean we shouldn't try though.

I get the impression I don't need to ask you to keep posting but I will anyway - you're much valued, Illegitimi non carborundum 😉

i think a lot of people just don't realise they are being sexist & when you flag it up with them you get called PC& they can't see what they've done wrong
it's endemic and it's a great shame
well done for bringing it up, i wholeheartedly support this stance

Couldn't care less what gender you are although you were happy to have a pop at me on here not so long ago.

Oh come on. Can't we just get on with the game without the PC brigade

Well, I didn't know you're a woman till now and I don't care really.
This community exists because of the dedication of its members to fantasy football regardless of age/ gender/race/nationality. That's what I really like about this place!
Sexism is really not a common thing around here though. You should report the comments you find offending.

Does this thread come in a hardback version?
Some great posts & support to Lucy in here who has been a valued poster on here since her arrival and wise words from Mr D Duck aswell!
Anyhoo bye for now, the 3pm bandwagon has just arrived. 🙂

Excellent post. Just want to add that I have had issues with derogatory comments re intellectual disabilities and the use of the word r****d and m**g being bandied about in the past...The mods have been great and have removed posts due to the offence it causes to me, and I'm sure to other posters. I'm sure you will get the same support...Good stuff.

Logged in just to +1 this.
Lucy I've enjoyed your posts and I feel the same about some of the posters on here.

I struggle to ignore some of the less intelligent posters and would like to see a function on the site that allows you to remove specified posters comments when logged in and looking at the comments section.

Hi Lucy.

Not sure if we have ever talked on here but I agree with what you say and think you've done the right thing posting about it. Hopefully it will make us think twice before posting things that might be hurtful.

Have a good season!

Late to the party, but just wanted to say that in this day and age it is not progressive to be kind to those who are different (be it due to gender, race, orientation, disability, etc.) it is human. It's a shame that in 2014 you even need to post something like this but it's the fire the site needed to have lit under it.

Here's my 2 pence since the whole of FFS has already commented. I agree btw

I am sorry to hear that you have been receiving sexist abuse, and I hope you have been reassured by all these responses that the vast majority of us are on your side.

However, the situation is far better now in my opinion than it used to be. It used to be quite common in previous seasons to see exchanges such as:
Female poster: "I'd like some advice on my team, please. (I'm a girl - blush)"
Male Chauvinist Pig: "Girls don't play fantasy football. I bet you have balls like the rest of us"

There seems to have been far less of that kind of thing this season, so perhaps the mods ARE doing their job after all. There are clearly plenty of females who do play fantasy football, and TorresMagic has suggested that we might be surprised at just how many there are. But perhaps some of them might have been scared of admitting their gender when posting and may be hiding under male or neutral pseudonyms. The situation is further confused by a small number of posters such as Christina who use male pseudonyms but admit to really being male.

Incidentally, how do you feel about male posters who use gravs of scantily clad women?

And perhaps it might help if one of the mods was a female!