Erin Andrews and the Cubs locker room: Discuss

I love this. The person who has built her posting persona around the running joke of how she likes to prey on younger men at bars is going to call Mike Nadel a "dirty old man" and "creepy." Definition of hypocrisy.

 

Impossible, Xan. It's far too subjective. I wasn't necessarily creeped out by the column (though I did find levels of it objectionable) but I would never tell SC or any other female sports reporter that their opinion of it being creepy is wrong.

 

Or the definition of hyprocrisy, anyway, if that's how you wish to see it. And a feminist doesn't have to check her sexuality at the door.

 

Let's not make this thread a personal pissing match between posters, OK? It's actually been a valuable discussion.

 

Here's a question (even though my other didn't get answered ... ;( ):

What if another female sports reporter had written that column?

 

I'm not saying her opinion is wrong. Her opinion is valid as any here. But what about the player (I've forgotten at this point in the thread) who let her touch his bicep. That's not creepy? Or does he get a pass because he's uber-star?

Sportschick, do you think Erin did anything wrong?

 

it would have come across as catty... right or wrong, there's no good way to write that column, but sometimes things like that need to be said.

 

I think having a guy staring at a woman, taking notes about what she's wearing and how she's acting and then writing about it and saying she's a sexpot, that she touched a male "suggestively" and that her clothes were revealing is more than a bit creepy.

 

I hate to say this, but she'd be gettng ripped for being jealous because she's not as good looking as Andrews.

 

I wasn't there. I don't know the circumstances behind the touch, so I guess the answer is I don't know.

I don't think her dress was inappropriate. As I've said earlier, I own a similar dress and never though twice about wearing it to work. I just don't look as good in it as Erin. I'm not hot.

 

He just forgot to lead it all off with "Dear Penthouse Forum."

And Ms. Andrews' outfit should not really be titillating to players, considering what many ballpark Annies probably wear.

 

Maybe this whole thing then is less about Erin Andrews, what she was wearing and how she was acting and more about the sub-culture of the locker-room environment?

And Erin Andrews is a convenient target?