Ines Sainz and the New York Jets-Part I

Women sportscasters have never been taken seriously. Couple that with the fact that they are not all the same in skill or appearance and you can begin to see at least one of the inherent problem.

For one view on women sportscasters take the fans who runs Hogwild.net; "For the most part, these women are articulate and knowledgeable about sports. But for the most part, us men don't care."

Male sportscasters can be knowledgeable and ascetically pleasing without drawing attention away from their commentary or interviews. In most areas in society men are judged on skill first and appearance second if at all. Women, not so much. If Sainz had worn a burlap sack she would still be considered attractive right? Then why are people saying that she asked to be insulted because her jeans were too tight.

Sainz isn't just attractive mind you. Other words used to describe her include smoking hot, babe, sizzler and those are just the nice ones. Really this is a lose lose situation for her no matter what she does. I don't know whether she is a stand up sportscaster or not but the deck is stacked against this women whether she knows her shit or not. Can you say that she is doing her job to the best of her ability? I don't know. Is she a respected member of the sports media and all they stand for? I doubt it. Women weren't even allowed equal access to post game interviews until a court decision in 1978.

What I do know is that any women who is above average looking instead of just regular looking on one level it all comes down to how much society can blame her because of what she was wearing. But don't worry, Sainz seems relatively okay with the incident. First she says she was harassed, then she says she wasn't harassed, says she was offended, then she says she wasn't offended and so on and so forth. The media is already placing blame on those man hating feminists blowing the whole situation out of proportion. Maybe they did. For all we know Sainz is the one to blame for looking "sexy" enough to throw those male athletes into a tizzy. Boys being boys, right? We can't expect a group of adult men to be able to control themselves in the locker room, especially baited with a women whose behind I am told has its own fan club, that would just be too much to ask. Isn't it?

My solution to this is simple. Move interviews out of the locker rooms period. In terms of professional attire we have my second solution, create a dress code for sports reporters.

If women are excluded from equal access to do their job then the problem lies in where they are trying to gain access, the locker room. It may not be fair but it clearly isn't the same thing to ask me how I would feel if a male reporter came to visit me in my woman's only gym locker room to ask me to give a quote on the days step aerobics class. That just goes to show that gender stereotypes hurt both men and women. If the fraternal culture, apparently so alive in today's locker rooms is that integral to professional male athletic teams than they need to argue that fact and conduct all interviews somewhere else. They should be able to keep their teams "boys only club" as women can opt for a girls only locker room (not that women can join male professional sports at all) as long as they don't discriminate against the sportscasters who happen to be female.