Are we supposed to treat women the same as men? Give them the same opportunities and require from them the same responsibility?<\/p>\n
If so, the following complaints are nonsense. Male sportswriters are subjected to at least as much nasty criticism, only they complain about it less. <\/p>\n
Katie Mettler writes for the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n The men in the video, average and unsuspecting, had no idea that the mean tweets they were asked to read would be so mean. They were not written by them but by others, so they didn\u2019t know they would include words that start with \u201cb\u201d and \u201cc,\u201d that they\u2019d be about death threats, beatings and rape.<\/p>\n They didn\u2019t know they\u2019d make people cry.<\/p>\n Recruited to appear in a now viral #MoreThanMean PSA video about the harassment faced by women in sports media by a blog called Just Not Sports, the men were simply told they\u2019d be reading aloud mean tweets to Chicago reporters Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro.<\/p>\n The men chuckle at first as they sit on stools in a brick covered loft, directly across from the two women, rambling off mostly benign insults.<\/p>\n \u201cJulie DiCaro is a run of the mill mediocre beat writer,\u201d the men read from one tweet. \u201cNot atrocious, not good, just sorta.. there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m actually not a beat writer at all,\u201d DiCaro says, laughing. \u201cBut okay.\u201d<\/p>\n Another guy reads a tweet labeling Spain a \u201cscrub muffin.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t even know what a scrub muffin is,\u201d another reader remarks.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t either,\u201d Spain admits.<\/p>\n \u201cI love muffins,\u201d says the smirking reader.<\/p>\n It almost felt like a segment of Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s comedic \u201cMean Tweets.\u201d That\u2019s what the men thought, too, one of the video\u2019s creators told Forbes.<\/p>\n Not even a minute into the more than four minute clip, the tone shifts entirely. The background music turns less peppy. The tweets get dark. The men, no longer chipper, start to sweat, fidget and apologize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are we supposed to treat women the same as men? Give them the same opportunities and require from them the same responsibility? If so, the following complaints are nonsense. Male sportswriters are subjected to at least as much nasty criticism, … Continue reading