Reporter Incident at the Jets Practice

[Trish Bessette]

I haven't read all the replies here but I just have to say she is a beautiful woman who has a killer body. Dang, if I had that body I'd wear those cute jeans too I thought her outfit was just fine for a reporter at a football game.

 

[Jennasis]

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.

I bolded the important part, but I agree with your whole sentiment.

 

[ChicagoFitnessClub]

Thank you for posting this--you beat me to it. Dress codes are different for different jobs and different regions. She is not dressed like a tramp--she is dressed like a reporter from her culture.

That's fine and if she wants to dress like that, she can go to Mexico and do her interviews there. She can interview Mark Sanchez via Satellite next time from Mexico City.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I don't get that one either . *I* have season tickets for the Chicago Cubs. *I* have season tickets for the Wisconsin Badgers football team. My DH goes with me and has become a sports fan in his own right but it is *me* who buys the tickets. *He* buys tickets to the opera .

When I go to the games HALF of the fans are women. HALF. I don't know why there is some weird idea that sports is just for men and that only men can comment or report on it. FWIW, the biggest problem I have with female reporters (of any kind) is that the vast majority are young and very pretty while that does not seem to be as much of a requirement for male reporters.

See--now I fit the stereotype of being clueless about sports--but my husband bucks the stereotype because he is as clueless as I am. Seems to me that sports fans are PEOPLE who like sports. I had no idea gender had anything to do with that

Well I know that some men get freaked out if a woman knows more about sports than they do...

and I get freaked out by men like that

That's fine and if she wants to dress like that, she can go to Mexico and do her interviews there. She can interview Mark Sanchez via Satellite next time from Mexico City.

Her interviews AIR in Mexico. Or, at least to her culture in the US (I am not really sure where all her station plays to be honest). Honestly this comment strikes me as bordering on racism.
An MTV reporter is going to dress differently than one from ABC who will dress differently than one from Entertainment tonight. Different audiences. But varying audiences (who have varying expectations about how their journalists will dress) may all want to see coverage of the same general topic. I really do not see why that is a bad thing

 

[Toad_Passenger]

Anyone else notice that ALL of the articles you read online...even the ones who are taking a hard stance against how she was treated, still have an embedded link for you to "see more pictures of Ines Sainz." I got a laugh out of that.

So it's like we all need to be appalled at how she was treated, but, "Hey, check out more pics to see how hot she really is!"

 

[wvjules]

I agree--but because of the people saying things like she was dressed like a slut or tramp and deserves XY or Z and people saying women can;t make good sports reporters, etc. The light hearted joke you quoted though was just that, a joke--not even really made at anyone's expense--weird poster to choose to bring up this point.

I said I don't like female sports reporters. I never said they weren't good. I just don't prefer them. Who/where did anyone say they can't make good sports reporters?

 

[NHdisneylover]

I said I don't like female sports reporters. I never said they weren't good. I just don't prefer them. Who/where did anyone say they can't make good sports reporters?

It wasn't you I had tried to quote; it was this:

I agree if she wants to be taken seriously, she needs to be professional. I could only find professional shots of her and ones from last years Super Bowl. She dressed like a street walker.. Please!

And I also can't stand female sports reporters. I always get the impression that they don't really have a clue about football. They just got their job because they're married to someone important or look like a runway model.

the above is much stronger and ruder than simply not liking them (as you said)

 

[wvjules]

It wasn't you I had tried to quote; it was this:



the above is much stronger and ruder than simply not liking them (as you said)

Gotcha.

 

[ChicagoFitnessClub]

Her interviews AIR in Mexico. Or, at least to her culture in the US (I am not really sure where all her station plays to be honest). Honestly this comment strikes me as bordering on racism.
An MTV reporter is going to dress differently than one from ABC who will dress differently than one from Entertainment tonight. Different audiences. But varying audiences (who have varying expectations about how their journalists will dress) may all want to see coverage of the same general topic. I really do not see why that is a bad thing

I don't care where her interviews air. She's interviewing U.S. athletes so if she wants to be treated like a respectable reporter in this country, she needs to dress like one. Not like a club promoter. That simple.

Racism? Considering I'm hispanic you're completely off base on that but good try.

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

the above is much stronger and ruder than simply not liking them (as you said)

It was me you quoted and I'm sorry thats how I feel. Some of these woman out there are a joke. And sorry but some of them make the whole lot of female reporters who actually do a good job look bad and not taken seriously. I didn't mean it to say they all got their reporting jobs by who they married or what they look like, but alot of them did.

But just the same as alot of the men now reporting football used to play. For Goodness sake, Shannon Sharpe and Michael Strahan can't even speak correctly and there they are. I have to realy listen to them sometimes and even then, I'm like what the heck did they say?

I'm just not a fan of female sports resporters. Thats it plain and simple. I never said woman couldn't like sports. I love sports. Watch it constantly, more than my husband. But in my eyes if woman sports reporters want to be taken seriously then they need to act and dress professional. Painted on jeans and a shirt cut down to her bellybutton doesn't cut it for me.

 

[Planogirl]

Again, this is likely cultural. I doubt that she will change her mode of dress because I imagine that she is interested in what her own culture find appropriate. At least for now.

 

[RitaZ.]

i really don't like the "blame the victim" mentality i'm seeing here.

ita

 

[MELSMICE]

I don't care what gender a so-called reporter is....

IMHO, locker rooms should be off limits to everyone but approved athletes and staff. Period.... no valid reason why this shouldn't be the teams sanctuary....

Couldn't agree more. Save the interviews for outside the locker room.

 

[robinb]

But in my eyes if woman sports reporters want to be taken seriously then they need to act and dress professional. Painted on jeans and a shirt cut down to her bellybutton doesn't cut it for me.

But you're not her demographic . AFAIK you don't live in Mexico.

 

[ChicagoFitnessClub]

But you're not her demographic . AFAIK you don't live in Mexico.

The New York Jets don't live in Mexico either.

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

I don't care where her interviews air. She's interviewing U.S. athletes so if she wants to be treated like a respectable reporter in this country, she needs to dress like one. Not like a club promoter. That simple.

.

But you're not her demographic . AFAIK you don't live in Mexico.

And to answer your quote , I will requote CFC, because I totally agree with what she wrote, and couldn't say it any better myself.

 

[ChicagoFitnessClub]

And to answer your quote , I will requote CFC, because I totally agree with what she wrote, and couldn't say it any better myself.

Thanks rolie but I'm a dude.

 

[robinb]

The New York Jets don't live in Mexico either.

But she dresses for her audience, not the Jersey Jets.

Thanks rolie but I'm a dude.

I knew that!

 

[ChicagoFitnessClub]

But she dresses for her audience, not the Jersey Jets.

Yes she can and whatever consequences follow so be it. She knew how to avoid a sticky situation and chose not to proceed with caution.

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

Thanks rolie but I'm a dude.

Oops sorry!