Is gender the key to writing sport interviews of athletes and coaches? There are still some professional athlete with an prehistoric mind set that women are not allowed in the holly grail of post game interviews, the locker-room.
As a whole, female reporters have been given a difficult time when entering not just the locker-room, but also the practice field. The more attractive the women the less attention they receive as the sport reporter. Females are asked to meet for exclusive or boldly requesting that the female reporter join them for an evening out on the town. Since when is the job description of any reporter, dating!
Women and the Jets!
In recent years no franchise has been on the defense more than the New York Jets, of course the owner of the team put out a press conference apologizing for the misconduct of their soon to be hall of fame player, Brett Favre. Favre allegedly sent cell-phone pictures of his private parts masturbating, to a female reporter that he met during the Jets 2008 preseason.
If that was not enough, in September 2010 reporter Ines Sainz of the TV Azteca in Mexico was in town to interview quarterback Mark Sanchez. During the interview there were reports of sexual harassment from other players and coaches from the Jets organization.
Males flirting with females are nothing new, in fact most of us would consider it normal, however when professionals are at work there is a certain manner we are expected to conduct ourselves. Take for example the Rampage Jackson interview listed below.
In todays corporate human resource departments have several sentivity courses for managers on sexual harrasment, race and gay conduct. I think it’s time for american sport franchises incorporate these policy for female reporters in the locker-room. After all gender have no barring on the words listed on the page of a newspaper.
http://theothermccain.com/2010/08/08/female-reporter-claims-brett-favre-sent-her-photos-of-himself-masturbating/
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-09-13/sports/27075155_1_jets-fans-rex-ryan-jets-organization
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