Tag Archive | sexual assault
Our Thoughts on Steubenville
This post was written by both of us. We’ve been eyeing the Steubenville rape case for months now, in which two high school students – Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond – were accused of assaulting and raping a female high school student. After a couple of days of trial, the juvenile court judge rendered a [...]
Monday (ok Tuesday) Morning Quarterbacking: Super Bowl Recap
Super Bowl XLVII: put it in the books. Hopefully everyone had fun Sunday night and made it to work on time and in one piece the next day. The game got pretty exciting post-power outage (!!!), but after an exciting run and a potentially blown holding call, the Niners fell short. As you may have [...]
Update in the Steubenville Rape Case
Two weeks ago Sara wrote about the horrific rape of a 16 year old girl by two Steubenville, OH high school football players. Yesterday, a hacker called KnightSec released a video (which can be seen here on Deadspin [**TRIGGER WARNING**]) of a former Steubenville High student connected to the incident making light of the rape with shocking brazenness. [...]
Happy New Year Links Post!
Happy New Year to all our readers! We took some time off around the holiday season, but we’re ready to ring in 2013 with more posts. Here’s hoping the new year brings with it more equality for female sports fans and reporters, increased success for female athletes and women’s professional sports teams, and greater respect [...]
The Sanctity of Being a Male Athlete
We’ve discussed a fair amount of the privilege granted to professional and college athletes because of their athlete status; whether it’s the University of Montana football team or any one of a number of professional athletes who have been embroiled in sexual assault scandals, these athletes often seem to exist on a higher plane than the [...]
Weekend Links Post
It’s Friday! As we sometimes do, today we’re sharing a few articles we read this week: The Toronto Star published a round-up of letters to the news source demanding better coverage of women’s sports. After a Cardinals’ radio ad depicted the team’s fanbase as all-male, the Fearless Leader over at A Blog of Their Own [...]
Montana Football Has a Sexual Assault Problem
The Big Lead reported in January that the University of Montana has been investigating five sexual assault cases, two of which involve players on the football team. The story summarizes: “Incidents suggest a disturbing pattern of normal underreporting the crime, combined with poor handling by university officials and special treatment for football players.” The report describes [...]
Bad Behavior on the Tampa Bay Rays
After Kentucky’s decisive victory over Kansas in the men’s finals, and with the women’s finals tonight, March Madness nears its conclusion. This year, the end coincides with one of the greatest days of the year: baseball’s Opening Day. Meaningful baseball will be played tomorrow, and to us here at Bloomer Girls, it feels like Christmas Eve [...]
RA Dickey’s Work with Bombay Teen Challenge
Mets pitcher RA Dickey made news in baseball’s off-season when he announced that he’d be climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro as part of an effort to raise money for a charitable organization. Predictably and pragmatically, Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson asked his 37 year old knuckleballer not to make the potentially hazardous trip, but Dickey was committed to [...]
Let the Games Begin!
In late 2011, Lydia approached Sara with an idea: what if we started a blog that dealt with feminism and sports from a different perspective than everything else out there? We both love reading sports blogs and feminism blogs, but the two only intersect when there’s a particularly newsworthy event. We’re big sports fans – [...]
