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In the past few years, the sports entertainment behemoth ESPN has done a remarkably great job of integrating female reporters into what has long been the ultimate boy's club. There are now women anchors, women side line reporters, women correspondents and a half-dozen other estrogen-laden categories. Read More
Hannah Storm rocks; I think
Hannah Storm rocks; I think she's definitely an exception to your rule...
News and Sports vixens
Interesting piece. Here's another take. First you win a beauty contest. Then comes the sports, or the news, or . . .
Your readers might be interested in a related piece on this topic at Writing Frontier. See "News Vixens" at
http://writingfrontier.com/2008/09/24/news-vixens/
An Australian Perspective
Although I have no idea about the people you are writing about in this article, and I might sit down and watch ESPN about once a month, I notice the same with female sports presenters in Melbourne commenting on Australian Rules Football. The AFL has made great strides to incorporate women into all aspects of the game, outside of actually playing it with the "boys", the exact same thing has happened with female sports reporters. The actual game commentators are all men, the only reporters with gregarious personalities are men, and while the female reporters are highly knowledgeable and respectable, they are all seem like they are cut from the same "robot" mold.
people feel guilty because
people feel guilty because of not being able to respond to the so called "feminists" and thats why they pay for their sins by acts like that
The NASCAR broadcasts that
The NASCAR broadcasts that ESPN and ABC do show that both the men and women can be less than exciting on the mic. The folks in the booth, and those doing the interviews (both men and women) are knowledgeable, but there's not a lot of excitement there.
Fox, however, has DW. Same race, same drivers, but much more interesting to listen to. Maybe it's the training at ESPN.
First thing I thought....
The first thing I thought of was that maybe since it DID take so long for women to be incorporated into the "boys only club" sports world in a serious way, they may overshoot it a little with the way they go about it. I mean, I'm not a sports fan or anything really, but I do witness the sports channels and such occasionally and it does seem like there's a big difference in the male and female faces in sports.
In a sense, in their effort to fit in more professionally, be taken more seriously, and be seen as knowledgeable and informed, these women end up with an off-putting sort of "stoicism," if you will. They try to be so into it, so serious, that they end up being boring and aren't any fun. The men just do this. They don't just watch or talk about football, they LIVE it, even if they're not a reporter or anchor. Even if the women do in a similar way, they might not feel entirely comfortable fully revealing this to the rest of us when considering how newly their full participation has been accepted.
Like I said, just a thought. Afterall, I hear women tend have this problem in the corporate business world as well; they walk the line between "too girly/cute" and "too manly/ambitious/intimidating." Perhaps it's the same in the sports world. Afterall, they don't want to be just some sporty bimbo there to be eye-candy, so maybe they accomplish the opposite when trying to balance their persona.
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