Women in Sports Departments

Write-Thinking certainly exhibits many of the traits common to a female sports writer.

 

If this is the case, I'm thinking that WT is a student doing a paper.

Either that or it's a guy and he didn't get my grammar stereotyping joke.

 

No, I'm thinking this is a woman tired and confused by the mysogyny on this board and around the business, asking questions that might be more palatable coming from a woman than from a man.

I could be completely wrong. But I don't think so.

 

But then why phrase the questions to sound as if they're coming from a man who is tired of dealing with his female boss?

 

It doesn't read that way if you envision it coming from a female.

Either way, the questions are still archaic and trite...but I'd understand the intention of this thread a whole lot better if a woman started it.

 

I started in 1976 (I was 16) and worked with women in sports departments from the start. I was a kid and didn't really think about their qualifications; I was focused on my own lack of qualifications at the time. I'm kind of glad that I'm just young enough that I didn't start in all-male sports departments because it never seemed less than normal to me. I know I liked it when I showed up to cover a game and the other writer would be female. I liked talking to them. They were a touch more worldly than the young ladies I encountered in high school during the day and since I was younger than them and probably wasn't perceived as dating material, the conversations were low-pressure and cool.

Some were mentors. On my first really good newspaper was a female copy editor who taught me a lot. On the next paper there was a writer who went out of her way to invite me to go drinking with her and out-of-town writers. I met a lot of people that way, not in a networking way but in the sense that I got to meet people I'd been reading for years.

Never worked for a woman SE, but I've worked for five who ran the newsroom.

For many reasons I'm glad I'm not older than I am, but one is because working with women has always seemed entirely normal to me.

 

I've never given it a second thought. I consider myself fortunate to have worked alongside several competent female editors and writers who, as it was put, are just individuals doing a job.

 

I think 21 nailed it early on. A sports dork is a sports dork. I could care less how individuals go about peeing.

 

I couldn't find a clue as to Write's gender, but this is from one of the individual's posts:

"Actually, I believe I DO know something about this topic, after nearly 32 years in the business, 23 of them as a departmental manager — and at least three years watching the slow-moving train known as the Unemployment Local come at me."

 

I like when I learn things. Frank, it appears, likes women.

 

For the record, I like women, too.

 

They're OK. But you have to remember they are people. Don't ever forget that. Which means, ultimately, that they are evil.