Sexist insults to basketball referee Paula Lema: “Whore!”, “Go clean!”

2023-11-02 08:42:38

And new regrettable episode of machismo and violence in sport. It happened in the game in the basketball league and the victim was the referee from A Coruña Paula Lema, who was calling a match in the top category of Spanish women’s basketball that pitted Pajariel Bembibre (from A Coruña) against Spar Girona on the fifth day of the national competition. A fan shouted expressions like “Bitch!” or “Go clean!”which was recorded by some of those present, such as @anaislopez23, who shared it on social networks.

This is absolutely intolerable.

“Whore” and other sexist atrocities while he was calling a basketball game.

Cheer up to Paula Lema and all the people who suffer from this while doing their JOB.pic.twitter.com/CWbyEWC7W9

— Anaïs López (@anaislopez23) November 1, 2023

Social networks They have turned to Paula Lema after what The video came to light and many asked Pajariel Bembibre for action and the Women’s League to take legal action against the fan. AND so it has been: The Bembibre Basketball Club has condemned the events that occurred in the last Endesa Women’s League match against Spar Girona and has issued a statement in which it assures: “The entire board of directors of our club wants to condemnnot only the expressions uttered during this meeting, but all types of sexist or sexist expressions that attack the moral integrity of women or any personin this specific case, against the referee of the match corresponding to the 5th day of the Endesa Women’s League between Embutidos Pajariel Bembibre PDM and SPAR Girona”. Likewise, it announces that the board of directors of the Bembibre Polideportivo Club has decided ban entry to this fan to all the matches played by Embutidos Pajariel Bembibre PDM, at the Bembibre Arena.