I swear nobody is actually LISTENING to her interviews.
SHE ISN'T THE ONE COMPLAINING. She has said many times that she doesn't know what the hubbub is about and doesn't consider what happened to be harassment. She's on the news because the media is making a big deal about this after a complaint was made by some other journalist.
ON the issue of dress...nobody will ever convince me that it is okay to harass or make lewd comments/gestures etc or even to whistle or catcall at anyone because they are dressed in any particular way. I have been the victim of harassment and the blame people attempted to heap on me was just disgusting. What did you do to encourage them? What were you wearing? You have to expect that behavior in a room full of men....and on and on. NAUSEATING.
No, you're right, she isn't the one complaining so most of the rest of this is really moot. Someone else complained on her behalf, or complained because the way the men were acting made them uncomfortable. However, the reporter did say on Twitter while all this was going on that she was "dying of embarrassment". Personally I think that could be taken more than one way. She could actually be unpleasantly embarrassed, or she could be "embarrassed" the way my friend was when her boyfriend sent her dozens of roses and balloons at school once, and she kept saying she was embarrassed by the attention while obviously enjoying it. It's impossible to tell from just the typed phrase.
I think some of this may have been blown out of proportion. I've seen people who appear to be outraged that the men were throwing the ball at her, but they weren't. They were throwing it
near her. They have the self professed "sexiest sports reporter in Mexico" on their sideline. I don't think it's surprising that they might want an excuse to be near her. Lewd comments are obviously inappropriate, but do we know specifically what they were saying? The articles I read didn't say what the comments were. There's nothing wrong with them looking at her, and unless she made it clear that the attention (and whistling) were unwelcome, I don't think the men should be expected to know that it was. Since she is projecting the image of "sexiest sports reporter in Mexico" I think it's reasonable to expect that people are going to respond differently to her than they would to someone like MissFitt who could be even more attractive than the reporter but chose to conduct herself professionally. If she didn't want that sort of attention - or wasn't at least willing to put up with it - then I would think she'd choose a different image to project while she was working. This isn't a random woman walking down the street. This is a public persona who is intentionally projecting an image, and presumably it's an image that gets her the sort of attention she's looking for.
It would be completely unacceptable for someone to put his hands on her without her permission, regardless of the image she chose to project. But looks, some comments, men trying to stay near her, men talking to each other about her . . . those are all normal and reasonable reactions to the image she's projecting.
I am disgusted by the "blaming the victim" mentality that I see sometimes. But since this woman doesn't view herself as a victim, and since other posters on this thread have said that they would not be offended by whistles and catcalls, I don't think this is a situation of blaming the victim. There isn't a victim. This reporter has a particular image and it sounds to me as though everything that has happened fits perfectly with the image she is cultivating.
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