'Dislike Female Commentators'

Hannah Storm is very, very good at her job, and she is a strikingly beautiful woman.

Having said that...



...Kornheiser wasn't too far off-base about the outfit.

 

I think we should have that conversation another day. Or just never.

 

SF--it wasn't buried under hundreds of thousands of pages, it was an available option on an active complaint menu.

To me, Hannah is a great example of the rule, 'just because you can wear anything doesn't mean you should.'

Espn doesn't act on things like this. They react to preserve image.

But I guess what really got me hot about this is that it forces yet another discussion about the role of women in sports media, isnt it so great that espn gives women opportunities, like it's a flippin gift, and at this point in our little history, it just shouldn't be an issue.

 

So, 21, what should ESPN have done? Made it harder for people who hate female announcers to figure out where to direct that complaint?

It sucks that ESPN gets the complaints, but I don't see how ESPN is at fault here. I don't think this could reasonably be interpreted as encouraging the complaints, and I think the network has a relatively good track record of putting women in on-air positions that were once held almost exclusively by men.

 

So you start a discussion about it? Not sure that's forced.

That said, no need to be defending it SF, it's a stupid error, and I'd take them at their word that it was accidental rather than defend it on its face. There are plenty of ways they could have phrased it to make it conform with society's (just) demands for polite conversation.

 

I read that in this voice:

 

I started a thread about a topic that's being discussed elsewhere. I might also start a thread about American Idol, I don't think I've seen that yet either. Open to any other thread ideas.

 

I don't get it. I'm guessing that you mean that the discussion is happening elsewhere, you're just continuing it here. OK.

 

Elliotte, I agree with everything you wrote. Wasn't suggesting in any way that women are going backwards, or lacking opportunity.

But even if this was a computer generated list, not compiled by a robot (as Scraggs explains), how long would ANY business allow a specific category of complaints directed only at women? What about African-American commentators, is there a category for that? Jewish? Hispanic? It's completely laughable if you replace women with any other minority.

I was just stunned by espn's explanation that it was a 'relic' from 10 years ago. Ten years ago SJ was locking baked chicken threads targeting women in sports media. Maybe espn needed Moddy to clean house there as well.

 

Threads get locked here if you talk about how Hannah Storm dresses.

 

Mizzou, when you get done with the Internet -- because you just won it -- please let us have it back.