Cam Newton thinks female reporter talking routes is 'funny'

I’m not a public figure, but I couldn’t agree more. I launched my organization’s first website, built its content operations, started all its (pre-Snapchat) social media platforms. Thankfully, we have younger people who have taken that over these days and I need to bother with it less and less. Someone asked me during a meeting why I hadn’t clicked on some social media promotion we ran the other day and I told him I wouldn’t even be on social media if oversight of it wasn’t part of my responsibilities.

With that said, I find Twitter a useful news distribution feed and use it that way. Depends who and what you follow and how you interact with the content

 

Elliotte ... that's cool you want to retire at 55. That's young enough to enjoy life. How are you going to manage that. many of us figure with people to support we gotta at least work driving Uber til 70.

 

Twitter offers a lot of diversity of news, opinion, truth and fake news etc. Diversity is good right?

 

So I've been told....

 

Diversity doesn't mean adequate representation for both real news and bullshit.

 

It is kind of funny to hear a woman who never ran a route or played a down of football talk about the intricacies of football and ask detailed questions to a football expert. It's not a putdown or an insult it's just unusual and kind of funny.

Not unlike a 12 year old asking detailed questions about the theory of relativity or a man asking a woman about color hues and textures of beauty products.

Unusual can be funny.

 

How is it funny?

 

Kind of like how watching that old bald guy dance like a maniac in those Six Flags commercials a few yrs back. Unusual, unexpected.

Do you think it's politically incorrect to laugh at the old guy dancing like that?

 

Has every male sports journalist played the sport they cover? Would questions sound "funny" from them?

You compared a professional journalist to a 12 year old asking a question, you don't think that is demeaning?

 

Certainly not every, but a decent amount of broadcast questions come from former players (the Panthers' color guy is a former player). And IIRC the Observer's lead Panthers reporter did play college football. So it can be argued that Cam is "used" to hearing those questions from males and, as such, it doesn't seem "funny".

Doesn't mean Cam was right to appear so condescending . . . but there is some rationale behind it beyond "he's a sexist jerk."

 

Dammit! He didn't compare shit. He used an analogy.

 

I'm an old white guy with a thick Southern accent. I'm sure that on first pass many of my more urbane students think it's "funny" hearing me prattle on about the "non-trivial eigenvectors in the X prime X inverse X X prime matrix". You expect to hear Sheldon Cooper talking about such. Hearing Goober Pyle talking about it is funny.