QUARTERBACKS, WOMEN AND SPORTS

I would like to preface this posting with the disclosure that I am of the feminist generation, as well as a rape and domestic abuse survivor.  I was stalked by my abuser and understand what it is to be dehumanized and abused by a man.

Now to the Brett Favre situation.  Bullshit.  I am sick of women who enter the testosterone laden locker rooms of professional athletes, scantily  or suggestively clad while claiming that they only want equal footing with men.  Oh please give me a big fucking break. You are going into that locker room with one agenda and it has to do with you. You no more want to be a masseuse or a reporter or a documentary film maker than I could fit my fat ass into a size 3 pair of jeans. You want attention and you don't care how you get it.

What if the tables were turned?  What if a REEAAALY HOT GUY who had a journalism degree and a microphone decided that he wanted to go interview a women's basketball team in their locker room while they were running around naked.  OMG...that's so totally inappropriate. Guess what, hotty massage therapist...SO ARE YOU.

Furthermore, SHAME ON YOU, New York Jets who was one of my favorite football teams cause I loved Joe Namath. WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING????  WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???  Out of all the massage therapists for your team that you could hire, you hire scantily clad hotty girls?

Please understand, if this is truly Brett Favre on the tapes and the photos, he really disappoints me.  I'll bet he wishes more than I do that he'd "curbed his enthusiasm" (so to speak)  But just when and under what conditions did these massages take place?  Male athletes are pigs for the most part and we, as Americans, like it that way.  We groom them to be iron men and that includes that testosterone thing.  I'm not excusing it but why hire a women into that situation when there are so many other options?

My last statement on this whole thing is that if this woman was so terribly harmed, why has it taken her until now to come forward?  I don't think Brette has had so much free time that he stalked, intimidated or scared her into silence.

For those of you who are doing your bits about "this is what he'll be remembered for" please give me a break. His 37 yard over the shoulder touchdown pass to Moss was his 500th career touchdown pass.  He finished the game with 502 career touchdowns.  Gee, and that was just last night.

In the end, it's all about some bimbo's 15 minutes of fame. I would hope that if I ever get my 15 it will be for something that matters. Your 15 minutes, Bimbo, amounts to the fact that I don't even know your name. And I'm saying that as a feminist, rape and domestic abuse survivor.  We know the difference because we have actually been harmed.