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Check out this Podcast: Playoffs, Payoffs and Precarious Perspectives https://player.fm/1BmgEyH
From women's sports podcast Good Game with Sarah Spain.
Context - explosion of focus on WNBA this year, in part due to rookie phenomenon Clark. But how much racism has come out and disrespectful of another rookie Reese. And incident where inadvertent hit near eye was referred to as "black eye to Clark".
Female journalist involved in situation where based on her decades of sports coverage was not seen as sensitive to situation and lots of negative results. She was guest on show (Check out this Podcast: 'They Can Hate Me' with Christine Brennan https://player.fm/1Bmaawn) but that only fanned the flames.
AP has reached out to help better headline incidents rather than sensationalize and go for clickbait.
So, a general discussion on how women's sport are covered, differently from established/men's sports.
Tying to figure out how to say this, but can't really get beyond the ESTABLISHMENT/traditional heterosexual, CIS orientation emphasis, but A LOT of female athletes are gay, and that rubs a bunch of folks wrong and perhaps colors the coverage to appeal to more fans.
Not just the WNBA, but a lot of racial stereotypes and issues for athletes vs fan orientation.
Keep focused on the media coverage, not the greater political/hot button points, please.
From women's sports podcast Good Game with Sarah Spain.
Context - explosion of focus on WNBA this year, in part due to rookie phenomenon Clark. But how much racism has come out and disrespectful of another rookie Reese. And incident where inadvertent hit near eye was referred to as "black eye to Clark".
Female journalist involved in situation where based on her decades of sports coverage was not seen as sensitive to situation and lots of negative results. She was guest on show (Check out this Podcast: 'They Can Hate Me' with Christine Brennan https://player.fm/1Bmaawn) but that only fanned the flames.
AP has reached out to help better headline incidents rather than sensationalize and go for clickbait.
So, a general discussion on how women's sport are covered, differently from established/men's sports.
Tying to figure out how to say this, but can't really get beyond the ESTABLISHMENT/traditional heterosexual, CIS orientation emphasis, but A LOT of female athletes are gay, and that rubs a bunch of folks wrong and perhaps colors the coverage to appeal to more fans.
Not just the WNBA, but a lot of racial stereotypes and issues for athletes vs fan orientation.
Keep focused on the media coverage, not the greater political/hot button points, please.
