Tag Archive | gender
Nine for IX Isn’t Fine
ESPN recently announced the premiere dates for its spin-off from the popular 30 for 30 film series produced by Bill Simmons. Called “Nine for IX,” this is series of nine short films “focused on captivating stories of women in sports told through the lens of female filmmakers.” The topics of these films are: Venus Williams [...]
Another Double Standard: Celebrating Out Male Athletes, Ignoring Out Female Athletes
On Monday, NBA veteran Jason Collins became the first openly gay male professional athlete in America, a huge step forward for American sports, culture and society as a whole. As the mainstream sports media, players, fans, owners and bloggers all reacted to the news, a common untruth was repeated again and again: “Collins is the [...]
Said to Lady Journalists
A new tumblr has been making me shake my head all morning: Said to Lady Journos. Here, female journalists have been reporting the sexist and misogynist things said to them because they are female reporters. Not all of these tidbits are about sports reporters. But many of them are, including a bunch that riff on the [...]
UFC Features Female Matchup as Top Billing
File under: things I never expected to be emailed by my cable provider. We don’t know much about Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) or the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) here at Bloomer Girls, but this email was very surprising to us. The Women’s World Bantamweight Championship match gets top billing in this advertisement, and we’re always [...]
Links Post: Superbowl Round-Up
Friends, America’s favorite holiday is upon us: it’s Super Bowl weekend. We at Bloomer Girls will be watching the big game among friends and a ridiculous amount of Baltimore-, San Francisco- and New Orleans-themed food at Lydia’s house. Whether you’ll be watching or avoiding, whether you have a horse in this race or you’re watching [...]
When Sports and Advertising Don’t Mix
It’s not often that two of my biggest interests mix. As a pretty major consumer of theater, opera and ballet (I’d say on average that I attend a play or musical once every two weeks) and a huge sports fan, I rarely discuss the two in tandem (except, of course, “Damn Yankees” and that time [...]
MLB Dress Code Update: One Season In
At the beginning of the MLB baseball season this year, we discussed the new dress code for reporters that was instituted by MLB for press rooms and all premises reporting work. At the time, we wondered whether the rules were just a way for the paternalistic, male-centric MLB to “save” female journalists from themselves. It was [...]
Female Athletic Trainers Making Headway in Baseball
There was a fantastic article published a few weeks back by WHPTV, written by Jason Bristol, discussing the prevalence of female athletic trainers in baseball’s independent Atlantic League (not affiliated with Major League Baseball.) Discussing the difference, Bristol points out: The Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS) believes there are two female head athletic trainers [...]
Quote: RA Dickey on a Female Knuckleballer
*Sigh* What more could you ask for with RA Dickey? National League Cy Young candidate, bright spot in a disappointing Mets season, advocate against sex trafficking, Star Wars nerd, epic pitching face. The guy’s got it all. Oh wait, and this quote, from Emma Span’s must-read post “Kind of a Big Deal“: It’s long been speculated that [...]
