tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967788357821719263.post4321864092770828252..comments2023-05-22T07:13:16.578-04:00Comments on All We Do Is Puck: The State of Women Sports Writers Just Got Really MessyLadyHatTrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409624184554998015noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967788357821719263.post-4330178948462942652012-11-11T01:47:02.970-05:002012-11-11T01:47:02.970-05:00You should not be in the locker room. And this is...You should not be in the locker room. And this issue is not about you. Remember when sexual harassment was introduced to Americans as a crime? The example often given was the guy who put a pin-up of a naked woman in his area of the workplace where women also worked. If even one woman objected to that picture, it had to come down. Otherwise both the guy and company were sexually harassing the woman. Then we were just talking about a picture. Now we are talking about your “right” to enter a room where the players will be naked. Your personal attributes don’t matter except for the fact that you are female. By you being in there, if even only one player objects, you are guilty of sexual harassment. I don’t imagine you care about that but it doesn’t change the facts. In slave days, the owner could rape a woman slave and not be prosecuted. He could rightfully his act was lawful, and he would be right. Now he was still a monster, because rape is rape, but he could get away with it. Same with you. <br />You can get away with sexual harassment because the law says you can. But it doesn’t make it right. Or make you a decent person. In my experience, I have not run across a more selfish, non-empathetic group of people than women sportswriters. Everything is always about them, how they feel. Because of this, I am against women being in the profession. That likely would change if they would leave the locker room. But that will never happen because it is the decent, right thing to do, and that is not who they are. So as it stands, these women will continue to humiliate the men naked in the locker room who are embarrassed by their presence. Because of this, they deserve everyone’s contempt, not respect. <br />Survivor 3306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967788357821719263.post-85508320354221172022011-03-13T21:09:36.507-04:002011-03-13T21:09:36.507-04:00the woman is afool just like the uneducated femini...the woman is afool just like the uneducated feminists that go around shouting FOUL the answer is clear GET OUT AND STAY OUT OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCESAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967788357821719263.post-9714148037840062132010-09-16T11:48:49.862-04:002010-09-16T11:48:49.862-04:00Eric: You're missing the point. The problem is...Eric: You're missing the point. The problem is that she has to face that unprofessional behavior from the Jets players. She shouldn't even have to deal with that. When I go into the locker room after Caps games, I don't expect to be hollered and whistled at. I expect to just do my job, get out to the press lounge and type up my stuff. I don't believe in this "mental preparation". I don't go to my job at the Washington Post either expecting to be cat called either. It's just something she shouldn't have to deal with because she knows she's fine. <br /><br />Leon: that is a point, but she still is covering athletes and deserves the right to receive the same treatment I do in the locker room despite what kind of information she is trying to give. She still takes her work seriously and while I wouldn't pick her as the spokesperson for female journalists out there, she still should be respected.LadyHatTrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01409624184554998015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967788357821719263.post-26964270962783171482010-09-16T11:33:34.050-04:002010-09-16T11:33:34.050-04:00I won't say that the Jets players weren't ...I won't say that the Jets players weren't out of line. But seriously, I think Sainz should have at least mentally prepared herself for the possibility that something "unprofessional" might happen.E Phzzlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00052471330278499049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967788357821719263.post-23323053885521801482010-09-16T10:32:25.754-04:002010-09-16T10:32:25.754-04:00Good article. My beef with Ines Sainz is that she ...Good article. My beef with Ines Sainz is that she skews more towards sports entertainment than sports journalism. While there's nothing wrong with that in the wider sense, it doesn't do good for female sports journalists to who take their work seriously.LeonXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18030468193262219912noreply@blogger.com