Cam Newton thinks female reporter talking routes is 'funny'

This is better:

 

Very unprofessional for a person who is supposed to be a professional news reporter.

 

Cam is fun to watch and a great player. This was a really, really stoopid comment.

 

At least nobody was gored by a feral hog.

 

LOL. She doesn't cover the Panthers, so this is well within bounds in my book. That's a guy in his mid-20's talking, though.

HOWEVER (Stephen A. Smith inflection goes here), I'm getting fairly annoyed with people who are now going "inside football" to write their columns to make their points about this controversy. Is it just me or is reading a bunch of sport-related minutiae still a beating for a general audience?

 

How could Cam go there? My gosh by now he doesn't know females have covered sports for decades and females have the right to ask about routes as much as men? What is he thinking? If he doesn't issue some sincere apology soon, he's got to be suspended a game I would think.

 

You think he will be suspended a game? You're joking, right?

 

I'm actually reconsidering my position, because it seems this pretty much fits in the tone of her timeline, but I don't understand your point about her not covering the Panthers. Why does that matter in the lens of professionalism?

 

Cam Newton’s sexist comment to Observer reporter wasn’t one bit funny

 

I don't get the outrage, other than people want to be outraged and no one, I mean no one, does outrage better than journalists who perceive a slight at one of their own.
Almost every day I do my daughters' hair. Stay at home dad stuff. And if people comment and ask who did it (my girls have adult length hair. Huge pain in my ass) and I said me, I get - always from women - the "oh, that's so funny/cute that you learned how to braid hair." Yeah, I did it so my kids didn't look like poor WT messes and most women are accustomed to dads not giving AF.
Cam is mid-20s and I'm guessing the women he hangs out with don't give AF about route trees. He's surprised to hear a woman ask about it because it's not common. If anything, he's grown accustomed to the typical talking head bullshit of "talk about how X has improved because he really played well last week." Rodrigue comes out with a detailed Q and he was surprised. Is that offensive?
Everyone needs to calm the fuck down about this, but since it's journalism everyone's gonna Light the torches and fight the worthless fight.

 

Nobody. (And yes, it was a stupid comment.)

 

Not sure about that.

I don't think journalists are more inclined to outrage than anyone else. The rest of us are just more apt to see it.

Check the Facebook feeds of your non-journalist friends and relatives for outrage.