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#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba
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Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016
(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 05:51 am (UTC)(link)I also was a little bothered by it because we try so hard to make female media members more than their appearance. And then she made it about appearance.
I didn't love the remark (I'm sensitive about acne, too, as someone who was made fun of for it as a teenager and still has a lot of skin problems), but I think it's important to recognize that judging female media members on appearance is fundamentally different from someone, even a media member, making fun of a player's acne. I think a lot of the more moralizing responses she's getting are missing the mark in a similar way. Matt Murray isn't systemically oppressed in any way because of acne, whereas for a female athlete, it would be commented on constantly, and a female media member probably couldn't get a job, at least not where her face would be shown. Hockey twitter fandom makes fun of plenty of guys for their appearance without this kind of response.
That being said, I do think it's a little mean-spirited and not very professional -- neither of which is totally out of line with my impression of Jen Neale anyways.
Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016
(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 06:06 am (UTC)(link)I guess in the end I'm solidly in the "be better" camp. And she absolutely isn't.
And I'm super sorry that people are being dicks to her. But also I don't think other people's (most horrible) response to her comment excuses the original comment.
Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016
(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 06:11 am (UTC)(link)I don't think the horrible responses excuse the original comment, which I said I didn't like either. You're totally within your rights to think she can and should be better. But her making fun of Matt Murray's appearance is not at all equivalent to people judging women on looks because Matt Murray isn't a woman. They are both bad, but bad in different ways and to different degrees. And it's not fair to her to say "we make a big deal about not judging female media members on looks, and yet here is this female media member...". You can't hold her to a higher standard and condemn her mistakes as worse because she is a woman.
Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016
(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 06:23 am (UTC)(link)Oh hey! Apparently I phrased poorly (which isn't surprising because I'm deking while mostly asleep). I absolutely agree with you that it isn't equivalent. I guess I don't know how better to convey my issue with it.