Women in the NFL Workplace
December 30, 2010
by Optixmom
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Fining Brett Favre with a $50K fine for failure to cooperate in an investigation is all the NFL thinks is necessary. What about the sexual harassment? 5% of a single game pay is the lame, unacceptable fine. One word comes to mind in this case…PATHETIC!
This is why I don’t watch pro sports and resent building their sports palaces with public money, giving them tax preference and subsidizing them with my cable payment. I know this guys been hit in the head a lot but seriously, a mini fine after the season is over, could you get more tawdry? Don’t you think since they take public subsidy they should have to conform to anti sexual discrimination regulations?
By the way in Washington state we passed a Peoples Initiative saying no public subsidy for professional sports facilities unless the facility will be financially profitable for the tax payers as defined in the initiative. It passed by something like 75%.
$50k equals 4 1/2 minutes of one game’s pay!
The New York Post says she may sue in court – this finding was the lame work of the NFL only.
The NFL has no sexual harassment policy and she said she did not feel sexually harassed so she probably won’t sue I’m guessing.
Interesting and shocking Kelly. I wonder if she can sue as a general civilian. Sending photos of one’s private parts outside of work I imagine is a type of legal harassment (I hope)!
It’s a criminal offense, right? I mean, he couldn’t flash his junk to a lady in the park. Is this any different? Why hasn’t he been arrested?
” … she said she did not feel sexually harassed … ”
And she knows she’d damned well better say that if she wants to work ever again … because she knows that no way in hell is her harasser EVER going to get the punishment he deserves.
It’s like that bullshit that the defenders of Roman Polanski said: “His accuser doesn’t want anything made of it! We should RESPECT HER WISHES!” When a woman who was drugged and raped at the age of 13 is so resigned that she figures why even bother to demand justice because she’ll never get it anyway, I don’t think that totally like cool and hip RESPECT is the emotion that any sane person should feel in response. I’m sure many black victims of race terrorism before the age of civil rights felt the same: don’t rock the boat, it won’t help anyway, I can’t afford to get them even angrier at me, besides it will hurt too much to watch the whole world not give a shit that my son was tied to a tree and tortured to death, and I’ve already been through enough.
Says the coffeehouse-cool gentry progressive of 1950: “We should RESPECT THEIR TOTALLY LIKE COOL AND WITH-IT WISHES! Or else you aren’t respecting their AGENCY!”
No, we shouldn’t RESPECT that. And thankfully, we didn’t. When the victim of a crime just shrugs and figures that no one will give a flying fuck anyway, so just let me alone, THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT ANYONE SHOULD CELEBRATE AND SUPPORT.
You’re right Janis and also this phenomenon you are talking about is how Corporate Media has gotten so distorted and misogynist. The media corporate culture is completely sexist and harassing of women, the women still employed say it doesn’t bother them (or they wouldn’t have jobs), soon it got to the point where only women who will turn a blind eye to sexism can get a job in media and that means no authentic women can work in media. It also means that after so many years of this situation Corporate Media has become so distorted they can no longer appeal to a female audience.
Favre = Perve
” … soon it got to the point where only women who will turn a blind eye to sexism can get a job in media and that means no authentic women can work in media.”
And it’s not just there — but yes, I’ve often wondered who in gawdz name watches TV, looks at how horrifyingly they portray women, and says, “Boy howdy, I want to do THAT for a living!” *shakes head*
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