Julie now writing exposes on her own video:
https://thecauldron.si.com/what-the-mor ... .ack4kjjtsQuote:
Women in sports media are acutely aware that the segment of the male population that feels we don’t belong. Or rather, they feel we don’t belong if we don’t appeal to their sexual desires. To too many men, the greatest sin a woman can commit is being physically unattractive. But the times have changed. We, the daughters of Title IX, grew up with sports as a centerpiece to our lives, too. We had baseball cards and posters of Michael Jordan on our walls. We have as much right to the arena of sports as men do. And we aren’t going anywhere.
Don’t tell us to find a different career, to get a thicker skin, or to ignore the trolls. You have no idea how much we ignore. We already ignore mountains of garbage, threats and innuendo each and every day. When you see us get upset over a seemingly tame insult, it’s likely because we’ve already been attacked dozens of times that day. That tweet, the one that seems so harmless, was probably just a bridge too far.
The reality is that we wouldn’t be in the industry without an unusually thick skin. The thin-skinned fell by the wayside a long time ago. We didn’t get where we are in the industry by being shrinking violets. For many of us, not standing up to a bully is against our very DNA. We’re fighters. We’ve crawled through mountains of shit to get where we are. We still get shit on every single day. Telling us it’s our duty to absorb the trash people send our way without fighting back is cruel. No one should have to go through what we go through just to do our jobs. We’re the ones that endure it, we don’t need your advice on how to handle it.
As for our male allies, we adore them. But that doesn’t mean we want them to speak for us. Most of us abandoned the idea of white knights long ago. Want to help change the world for the next generation of women in sports media? Scoot over and give us a seat at the table. We’re smart and capable and are perfectly willing to speak for ourselves. We don’t need rescuing. Speaking on our behalf is just another way of silencing us.
Instead, support women’s sports. Read and share women sportswriters. Question why more women, and especially women of color, aren’t actively promoted by their employers. Call out panels at events that don’t include women. Teach your sons and daughters that women have a place in sports equal to men.
So, Julie is here saying that #MoreThanMean is about women in sports media, but then there's this:
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Julie DiCaroVerified account @JulieDiCaro Apr 26
Julie DiCaro Retweeted Milton J
Some guys really struggling with the #MoreTheMean video.Julie DiCaro added,
Milton J @MJBoniMB
@JustNotSports @SarahSpain @JulieDiCaro can't wait for the one where mean tweets directed at male writers are read aloud.
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Julie DiCaroVerified account @JulieDiCaro Apr 26
Julie DiCaro Retweeted Joseph Godfrey
Whole lot of guys completely missing the point of #MoreThanMean. My experience doesn't take away from yours.
So, on The Cauldon, MTM is about the abuse women receive trying to break into sports media, but on Twitter, when asked why there aren't any male sports media figures reading the mean, abusive tweets they receive, people are told MTM wasn't just about the abuse women receive.
We're entering #BlackLivesMatter v. #AllLivesMatter territory, here. The former implicitly excludes, while the latter is explicitly inclusive.
And whatever you do, don't bring this up to Julie:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... nline.htmlQuote:
At the same time, there was little reaction to a report contradicting the narrative that male public figures get considerably less Twitter abuse than their female counterparts. While the study, conducted by the British think tank Demos, was limited to a fairly small sample of British celebrities, journalists and politicians whose Twitter timelines were tracked over a two-week period, its findings are nonetheless interesting. On the whole, 2.5 percent of the tweets sent to the men but fewer than 1 percent of those sent to women were classified as abusive. Male politicians fared especially badly, receiving more than six times as much abuse as female politicians.
The only category in which women got more Twitter abuse than men was journalism: abusive messages accounted for more than 5 percent of the tweets sent to the female journalists and TV presenters in the study and fewer than 2 percent of the ones sent to the male journalists. (However, the most abused male journalist in the sample, controversial ex-CNN host Piers Morgan, was counted as a “celebrity” rather than a journalist; otherwise, he would have single-handedly raised the proportion of abusive tweets to male journalists to almost 6 percent of the total.) While about three-quarters of the offenders were men, about 40 percent of the abusive tweets to women were sent by other women.
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