good dolphin wrote:
Would Sarah Spain, Kerry Sayers and many like them be in any better position if their success were based on the quality of their work?
Women like Michelle Tofoya would undoubtedly make the cut. However, doesn't that kind of highlight that the aesthetic takes a backseat when a person performs well?
I've only sampled Aiyana Cristal's work a couple of times, but those instances led me to conclude that her employment as a broadcast journalist was a reflection of her hot body, not her reporting and communication skills.
This whole "controversy" is permeated by cynicism given that some of Bernstein's loudest critics are female sports broadcasters who willingly and often gleefully capitualte to patriarchal ideology--through self-obectification, the cultivation of a sexualized on-air persona or both--and are most certainly aware that they were only hired in the first place due to their willingness to participate in a sexist culture.
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Antonio Gramsci wrote:
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.