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Sky Sports has scrapped its new female-focused TikTok channel, Halo, after it faced a backlash online with its posts described as "patronising" and "sexist".

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A non-league match was abandoned after sexist abuse was allegedly aimed at a female referee, a football club has said.

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But the deep vein of misogyny hidden under this benevolently sexist rhetoric was not hard to spot for women willing to see it.

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Raj also pointed out the sexist nature of the comments the band have received.

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Or, as Kilmartin puts it: “It’s a show where you can see a ton of great, experienced female and nonbinary comics, one after the other. Not a single lazy, sexist dud in the bunch.”

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