https://www.espn.com/espnw/voices/story ... harassmentQuote:
The details differ, but the story is the same.
For me, it was an attempt to kiss me during a job interview. Inappropriate questions about my personal grooming and spoken-aloud fantasies about how great the sex we'd have together would be. A comment to a colleague: "If you're not going to try to f*** her, I am." A comment to a prospective boss during a job interview: "I've got an idea for a show. It's a half-hour of Sarah sitting in a chair, me standing over her shoulder staring down at her tits."
A reporter at another outlet complained to a team's PR staff that I must be sleeping with players because they were "giving me better answers." A team PR staffer telling a room full of employees I was a problem because my "boobs are distracting."
I used to say that things seemed to be getting better, but now I know they're only getting better for me. The power and agency I've acquired in the industry over the last decade-plus have made me a pretty dangerous target. But the women just starting out, the ones without a voice, they know the truth. They're going through it, just like I went through it, and the women before me, and the women before them.
All of the things she has stated about inappropriate conduct from men, I'm not taking any issue with. She is 100% right, that is totally inappropriate for a professional setting.
https://laist.com/news/brentwood-woman- ... t-the-gameHowever, there's that. Do you not think that your actions there started getting you the "power and agency" that you have acquired? Why aren't you discussing that you were essentially enabling that existing structure to occur? Let me guess, at that time, you were too naive to recognize what was going on. While I agree with much of what Spain says, she just can't be the postergirl of this movement. She also hurts her argument by not being factual with some points (no idea if intentional or just a lack of research -- the author of Sterger's piece has reached out to her earlier in a fairly well publicised story) and not backing up other arguments with any facts (in her favor, probably because this is already a long article and not a scientific paper.)
It feels like a bit of a call out to other women in sports in order to find a story to break. Again, I get her idea and I don't want to say that sexism in sports isn't an important area to explore, but it feels like she was an accessory to the perpetuation of it, and she benefited from it, and now she doesn't like it. I guess that is still valid, and maybe I am picking out one regretful moment, but it is a weaker position than someone who was against it from the beginning.