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Great White Rat says:

July 25, 2009 at 2:12 am

I never heard of Erin Andrews either until this story broke, but I have read Brennan’s columns in USA Today from time to time. She’s not particularly good, and on several occasions I’ve seen her depart from talking about sports to pushing a classical leftish feminist line. So there just may be a hint of the green-eyed monster showing here, especially with the snide accusation that Andrews “plays off her sex appeal”.

I’m assuming, of course, that Andrews isn’t dressing like a pole dancer and making undue and inappropriate physical contact with the men she interviews. But there’s something about an attractive woman succeeding that brings out the ugliest side of the left – exhibit A being the recent Playboy online sewage about which conservative women the author would like to rape.

But this is the worst of Brennan’s comments:

there are 100s of women sports journalists who have never had this happen to them.

Yes, and there are thousands of women who are never raped. That doesn’t mean whose who are victims deserve it or encourage it.
Anthony (Los Angeles) says:

July 25, 2009 at 2:23 am

Interesting. Like you, I’d never heard of Andrews before this incident. (Does she do college football?)

Maybe this is a difference between West and South (or male vs. female? :”> ), but I saw nothing unduly provocative in the way she was dressed for her work. She’s hot, but no more so than a lot of female sports reporters. Unless the peeper is emotionally disturbed (which I assume he is), I can’t see any reason why her dress should, as Christine Brennan implied, mean she was asking for it.

(Side note: If it was an ESPN colleague who did this, I should hope other ESPN staffers would have the decency to take him out back and punch his lights out.)

Bottom line is, Andrews was in the privacy of her hotel room and deserved to have that respected, regardless of how dressed or undressed she was.
Peter says:

July 25, 2009 at 5:09 am

I don’t care if this Andrews person went to work in a string bikini. Those videos were crimes, period. Andrews, or any other woman (or man either, for that matter) do not ask for this nonsense.
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ClassicFilm says:

July 25, 2009 at 10:25 am

Women fought for equality in our grandmother’s day, to be evaluated as human beings, not sex toys of men, and to not be treated by a double standard. It’s appalling that this happened to Erin Andrews, and even more appalling that Christine Brennan, another female sportscaster, implies that she somehow “deserved” it because of her choice of dress.

This was the same deplorable argument some men made decades ago to justify a woman being raped… if only she had not brought it upon herself. Victim becomes vilified. The Women’s Movement has taken a giant step backward. Brennan is a disgrace not just to her profession, but to all women.
Severian says:

July 25, 2009 at 11:14 am

I’ve heard of her, only because my boss at work a while back was talking about her and an incident where some athlete groped her on camera during an interview or some such. At the time, he showed me pics of her, and yeah, she is a babe. Very attractive and well built. But with the photos of her doing her work thing were never, IMO, overtly and improperly dressed. Slacks, sweaters, if that’s provocative what should she do wear a burka? I’ve not seen anything on her work photos that would be out of place in any business casual job I’ve ever had.

I suspect this woman’s issue with her is similar to the left’s feminists and other women’s issue with Sarah Palin, the “green eyed monster” rears it’s ugly head far too often among these types. An attractive woman who is accomplished and successful in her field, why, she must be denigrated and destroyed, how dare she be more attractive and successful and better adjusted than they are!!!

I loathe this kind of attitude, and you are right ST it is the same thing as the “well she deserved to be raped” BS spouted by misogynistic types everywhere.
Carlos says:

July 25, 2009 at 11:39 am

Andrews owes a good deal of her success to the fact that she is, in fact, a babe and, if not flaunting that, certainly doesn’t conceal it. In her shoes, neither would I. One uses the tools one has for success.

One cannot exist typically in this society without being inundated daily, hourly, with blatant sexual images. On TV one sees advertisements for everything from bras and panties to menstrual napkins. What is “normal female attire” for young people now would have put streetwalkers to shame before 1960.

That said, there is not a single excuse to assume that a woman, any woman, is “asking for it” anytime, anywhere, without actually verbalizing “it”, and even beyond that the privacy of one’s own room/home should be such that whoever did the dastardly deed should spend more than a couple of years in prison and wear a “sexual offender” label for the rest of his life.

As a side note, I wonder if this would have been ok with Letterman if the victim had been Palin or one of her daughters? Just askin’.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

July 25, 2009 at 11:41 am

“Never thought I would see a woman go with the ’she was asking for it’ take. Thought that was only for chauvinist male pigs,” one commenter wrote on the sports blog “The Big Lead.”

Apparently that commenter was asleep throughout the entire pants-down Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton.
Leslie says:

July 25, 2009 at 12:40 pm

El Raton Blanco is so right about the stupidity of Ms. Brennan’s remarks.

Are there no sports fans here other than me and Cat fancier ST herself? Anyhow: I AM familiar with Erin Andrews. Her role on ESPN is to report from the sidelines at college football, basketball, and baseball games. (She fills in for Peter Gammons on the Sunday Night Baseball telecasts from time to time, too.) She’s cast as America’s sports sweetheart–her good looks are more Betty than Veronica. She’s the kind of sexy woman you WOULD bring home to mom. This is why ESPN has her covering college sports.

The reason why she’s on “hiatus” now isn’t because she’s been traumatized (although I wouldn’t blame her if she has been), but because there are no college events for her to cover until the college football season starts.

Normally, during football season she does the Thursday night Big East games, and during basketball season she usually works the Big Ten circuit, although here she is covering last year’s TN-Memphis game, at a time when the winner would be no. 1 ranked.

I suspect this is the video that people are “kvetching” about, although I personally don’t think the coach has done anything improper. And as you’ll see, Ms. Andrews is dressed appropriately.

LINK
Bachbone says:

July 25, 2009 at 2:01 pm

I’ve seen Ms. Andrews covering the NCAA Women’s and the Men’s World Series, and the MLB All Star Game. Yes, she’s attractive. She wouldn’t be on ESPN nationally if she looked like Helen Thomas! But on none of those broadcasts was she ever inappropriately dressed. In fact, Jessica Mendoza and Michelle Smith wore knee-length shorts during the Women’s Games, and as I recall, Andrews wore a skirt in 100+ degree weather. But regardless of those facts, blaming her for someone committing a felonious act, especially a woman blaming her, is downright asinine. It smacks, to me, of another instance of knowingly writing something incendiary to get noticed. Would Brennan have written the same thing had the pervs been spying on her sister? I think not.
Steve Skubinna says:

July 25, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Andrews ought to count her lucky stars she isn’t openly conservative. Then, the persons of tolerance would be hoping she gets raped. I’d say she’s getting off easy, and if she knows what’s good for her she’ll hustle her little butt back onto the reservation like a good feminist. She needs to consider this a teachable moment.

And remember folks, watch out for those Republicans! They’re as bad as the Taliban!
Carlos says:

July 25, 2009 at 8:14 pm

Yeah, Steve, I’m really surprised the MSM didn’t report on the Peace Conference held in Chicago last weekend where 17 suicide Christians killed all those peace-loving Islamists.

Oh, excuse me. When talking about the “suicide” bombers of the “religion of peace” they’re “suicide bombers”. When those 17 or 12 or 213 Christian bombers did the same thing, they were murderers, right?

BTW, I’m using one of Napolitano’s dreams when talking about the bombing incidents in Chicago last weekend. Like most of her other fantasies about reality, they didn’t happen. Wonder why?
Tango says:

July 25, 2009 at 9:18 pm

….PEOPLE! PEOPLE! We’re losing sight of what’s really important here!

Namely, how long until NFL season opens? b-)
Americaneocon says:

July 26, 2009 at 2:05 pm

American Power tracked-back with, “Debating ‘She Had it Coming’ in Nude Peep Shocker: Playboy Centerfold Next for Erin Andrews? NFL Linebacker Shaun Phillips Tweets for Video!”.
alchemist says:

July 27, 2009 at 12:11 pm

From what I’ve read (I don’t remember where) this was a slimeball who has a history of releasing hidden videos from hotel rooms. It had nothing to do with Erin Andrews (or how she dresses), she just happened to be stay at the wrong place or the wrong time. Brennan’s comments are pretty gross.

I don’t have ESPN at the moment, but what I have seen of Andrews is a smart interviewer, and knows her stuff.

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