Marty Sheargold axed from Triple M over women’s football and endometriosis comments
Comedian and presenter Marty Sheargold has been axed from Triple M just months after returning to the microphone. It comes after the Southern Cross Austereo network was forced to apologise for Sheargold’s sexist on-air comments, relating to the Australian women’s soccer team, the Matildas.
After Monday’s comments it also emerged that on Tuesday Sheargold joked that the debilitating female health condition endometriosis is not real.
With SCA due to announce its half-year results in the morning, management had no leeway to let Sheargold try to ride it out. The network issued a statement saying it would “part ways” with Sheargold.
Give me back pain over my debilitating Endometriosis any day. So glad we don’t have to listen to him anymore.
Criticism of sporting teams is common-place, but the amount of people overlooking what/how he has said trying to justify his comments is frightening.. I suppose in the age of Trump, Andrew Tate etc it’s no real surprise.
Now we just need to get rid of that other misogynist Kyle, and the on-air quality of Aussie radio will improve enormously!
These remarks perpetuate harmful stereotypes that undermine the legitimacy and professionalism of female athletes. By trivializing women’s sports and equating professional athletes to schoolchildren, his comments reinforce outdated and sexist notions that women’s sports are inferior to men’s
The media now has one less retrograde, ignorant, out-of-touch shock jock polluting the news cycle, and we’re all better for it. Well done SCA
As a former athlete who represented Australia, and as a parent of a teenage daughter playing soccer, I’d happily hammer that nail for him. What a sad, pathetic, little, unfunny bloke
Go woke, go broke. They just lost half of their listeners.
Only he didn’t just criticise a female team, He said inaccurate things about the Matildas and rubbished women’s sport overall, plus added misogynistic comments eg ‘I hope they believe in men’. Treating women’s sport as a joke has to stop. It’s 2025.
He really made himself unemployable though after denying that endometriosis even exists.
We seem to be able to criticise any male team . But an under performing female team is off limits ? There’s an expression among men the only standards women have are double standards. Cue feckless outrage and free speech hypocrisy.
The Matildss are overated overpaid boring and very ordinary..won nothing much.. and should stop overreacting to stupid jokes .
No one would have batted an eyelid if similar comments were made about the men’s team.
Love your work Mikey.
Great that that dinosaur is gone