Well, I got chastised on Facebook last year for making a mild statement about Emma Stone's desirability--and she, too, is of age and in the public eye. Oh well.
Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected] On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:14 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I can not remember a College Football game with national championship > implications that I had less interest in than the recent Alabama/Notre Dame > game. These are my two least favorite college football programs of all > time. I watched it with the sound off while watching a film on Netflix on > my computer. > > I did notice the segment that proved most memorable from the entire game, > but did not realize it needed audio to fully appreciate until later. A > spokesman for ESPN has now apologized for Brent Munsberger's emphatic > comments about how pretty the Alabama QB's girlfriend (an Auburn grad, in > the stands) was, and how lucky all star QBs are to enjoy the spoils of > their success. > > > http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/espn-apologizes-brent-musberger-intense-focus-katherine-webb-214652095--ncaaf.html > > I think Brent, especially at 73, did get a little too creepy with his > comments, but there has also been something of an overreaction going on in > the media. The young lady is Miss Alabama after all, and was sitting next > to the high profile QB's mother at the highest profile college football > game of the year. I don't think we can assume she is shy, or objects to > being objectified, or noticed for her looks. > > The icky part was not really that an old man was drooling a bit over a > young woman ( she is over 21), but the glaring example of the assumptions > underlying much of the androcentric world of big time sports - that women > are objects of male sexual pleasure that are the just rewards > of successful performance. Lots of internet feminists have made the point, > and it is a valid one as far as it goes, that this attitude is part of the > larger "rape culture". What makes the bashing of Brent an overreaction is > not that rape is unimportant, or that the attitudes toward women common in > the sports world are unrelated to the rape culture, but that very little of > this is Brent Musberger's fault. > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
