#wetr being violated and therefore it shouldn’t be in Qatar - I want to be clear that if that is the standard you would not have a World Cup

[28whitepeonies]

About your anon of gay men and the world cup. I'm a queer woman so maybe they'll decide it doesn't apply but just to add my 2 cents.

I love football, more my club than my NT (which sucks but not as much as England, sorry Louis) and I have never missed a tournament if I can help it. I'm not watching this one because I'm not comfortable with everything around it (lacks of rights, the dead of so many people, FIFA being even more corrupt than we ever thought) BUT I can't help checking results and such. And that's being properly distracted by life because most matches are during my working hours.

Honestly if I were stuck at home, bored af as Louis probably is I'd be watching it too (and annoying my mutuals with my comments).🤷🏻‍♀️

Hi anon

Thanks for sharing your perspective on this, queer people will have a whole range of responses to the World Cup and I want to be really clear that however folk choose to engage with it is up to them. What we do as individuals here in terms of watching it/not watching it has little impact but people choosing what they engage with based on what they can and do enjoy is important. I hope you find the right balance that works for you.

I watched five minutes of the England game yesterday to see if they’d defy FIFA and the FA anyway and then turned it off, that’s probably five more minutes than I’d have watched of any World Cup at this stage.

I also have some much bigger thoughts about this expectation that a fairly non-political musician like Louis, where I think there is an active decision to not wade into political issues on social media, should join the debate on this as opposed to doing what he wants and tweeting about his enjoyment of a sport as usual.

Be angry at the FA, be angry at FIFA, be angry at Qatar, be angry at the British Government for centuries of imperialism, be angry at the european teams or their captains if you like for backing down over a fucking meaningless, watered down armband protest no one asked them to stage. If you want to do something that’s meaningful, get out in your communities and organise against oppression. But I think anger at Louis or any other gay person is misdirected anger, and I think it shows a real narrow worldview.

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