Richard Scudamore email debacle is not worthy of excessive moral outrage
‘Richard Scudamore is going nowhere, at least not until he decides to do one to Formula One.’ Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images
How is it possible that Barack Obama has yet to be drawn on the subject of Richard Scudamore's private emails? Thank heavens David Cameron has declared Scudamore would not have kept his job had he been in the cabinet, and I have enjoyed the regular updates from the Nigerian news agencies on this most acutely pressing of international women's crises. But the silence of the leader of the free world on the matter feels increasingly and yet, and yet … 10 days into the affair, it is increasingly hard not to be struck by the sense that many have conflated a crusade against the Premier League with a crusade against its current chief as stressed last week, and at least thrice annually for about a decade, I am very far from a fan of Scudamore. But these few private emails, though pathetic and distasteful and the work of an obvious arse, are simply not worth the volume of opprobrium that has been heaped on them fact, I can't tell you how far down my list of feminist give-a-tosses the level of twattishness his emails revealed lies. If I had to give you a ballpark, I'd say it is non-league feminist irk. Equal pay, female genital mutilation, access to abortion, rape reporting rates, rape prosecution rates – these matters and many others feel rather more worthy of both popular and prime ministerial concern than whether the chief executive of a private company did or didn't tell an email correspondent not to use the word gash. And anyone tempted to argue that there's a continuum between non-gash condemnation and rape statistics should consider that technically, there's a continuum between a whole load of issues of wildly differing magnitude. But when the line is that long it doesn't do the right side of the argument any favours to focus so disproportionately
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