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Journalists can reinforce stereotypes through framing, even though journalism is often held to an objective, unbiased ideal.
Women watching media notice the gender skew of questions towards women interviewees. We are also seeing more women thump back at distasteful question, as is proper.
Momlife_comics collaborating with FemaleQuotient
orthodoxorthography
You can just ask these questions 🤷🏻‍♂️
B4r4B4d4B45tu
Racism. 'Nuff said.
MantisTobagganMD
Nothing about this has to do with race...
Lars2510
All of these question are completely valid topics of conversation - for both men and women, from all walks of life. I even think it is healthy to discuss these things. But they should not be sensationalist headlines based on gender, taking away from the occasion they should be getting interviewed about.
Cyrilion
Okay but why don't they ask male athletes these questions, they are just as legitimate/illegitimate for the men as they are for their female counterparts.
Athletes spend a LOT of time training and in transit, those kids are losing a lot of dad time, and i would prefer all kids got more time with their parents in general, the 40 hour work week should be slashed to 20 and pay should quadruple to meet up with inflation.
HappyPetunia
Men who think motherhood is an impediment to careers of any kind, while fatherhood is not, would make shit fathers who “babysit” their own kids.
AlwaysUpvotesCatgirls
Love these. They should be.
nurmich
Somewhat off-topic but the "having so many kids" question should absolutely be a cartoon of Philip Rivers and not Patrick Mahomes. The dude saw the Irish Catholic bit from Meaning of Life and said "Challenge accepted."
Leaps
He is one of those quiverful religious nut jobs.
kaijuuGold
money helps alot -pro athletes probs
Howlingowl
There is nothing relevant an athlete has to say so they get asked inane questions
2Soon4Baboon
Journalists often use dogshit framing to push their agenda. See any question asked of Mamdani before his election.
OutboardOverlord
The amount of stupid, irrelevant questions asked by "reporters" is too damn high. Way, WAY too high.
esparadrapo
I remember Klopp being asked about COVID and answering: "Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?". Or maybe not, my mind is a bit fuzzy in this heat wave.
KrondorMocker
cytherians
This is the dumbing down phenomenon. I really have to wonder how these reporters questions are put together, who approves them, and what questions are tossed out.
randomwalrus
Yeah, true, but sometimes you just gotta know, Have they ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?
SirRichfield
Woran hat et jelegen? Ă„h... Ja gut, ich sag mal so: "Woran hat et jelegen?"
KrondorMocker
Yeah that's also true, but sometimes you just gotta know ...Can they do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke?
OutboardOverlord
"As My Plastic Surgeon Always Said - 'If You Gotta' Go, Go With a Smile!"
theSoulciologist
Distrust in journalism is at a global high. We just hope they're starting to recognize some of the reasons why
voltus
I wish some one would ask no one tends to give a crap if you are a man.
Grimmrog
having money buys nannies. thats what I see how most celebs manage career and "family"
causality
Is the artist aware these questions are asked of male athletes all the fucking time? James Rodwell on Team DB, Jake Allen on The Hockey News, Marc-Édouard Vlasic on ESPN. "Will becoming a father hurt your performance?" is one asked almost constantly.
MantisTobagganMD
Also when a reporter asked Sarunas Jasikevicius (head coach of a Lithuanian professional basketball team) why he would allow one of his star players (Augusto Lima) to miss a semi-finals game so he could be with his wife for the birth of their child. And he responded, as he should, with disbelief at how the reporter could ask that question. "When you have kids, youngster, you will understand".
DatDarthCaedus
Jeremy Renner used to work with makeup, and swapped questions with female co-stars a couple of times when they got makeup questions while he got questions about action scenes and such
The New Girl guys mentioned how after Coach came back, Lamorne Morris and Damon Wayans Jr (playing the two black characters) would get asked which one of them would remain on the show since having both was apparently unthinkable (Jake Johnson was real pissed off at this) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AACKTtWo6no
MantisTobagganMD
As a fan of New Girl... like, I kinda asked those questions as well when Wayans returned. Not because there were two black actors on the show, that's ridiculous, but because the only reason Winston was there in the first place was because Coach left (due to Wayans' schedule), and a room was free. Then Coach returned and I was like...why? Granted, I don't particularly like Coach as a character and Winston is arguably my favorite New Girl character, so I personally didn't need Coach added back.
mohammadbinsalmon
i think they should ask these questions to both genders - they're great questions. how an athlete balances fatherhood is important!
mohammadbinsalmon
society should be encouraging dialogue about kids or family or other relatable issues instead of the same insipid bullshit
RanOutofWit
God, yeah. You should look at some of the shit reporters asked the first female astronaut. Like, what the hell are they thinking when they write these things? "What kind of makeup are you going to take?" The fuck? "Will you require your own bathroom on the space shuttle?" "What do you do when you get your period in space?"
Media sexism was disgusting, has gotten better, is still gross AF.
sabrinadiesatdawn
The one about periods is actually a great question if you know the backstory. She (Sally Ride) had been asked by the NASA engineers in charge of packing all the disposable goods if 100 tampons was enough for 6 days.
cytherians
What in the hell? They actually asked those questions? "Will you have your own bathroom?" Clearly they didn't do their homework. Or, are they thinking viewers are so stupid that they'll be wondering about this? Wondering over other questions that might be far more interesting?
friendsofsandwiches
you can bet in the article, they made some comment about how difficult it was for them to do their makeup.
Grimmrog
I would just answer similar stupid, like I poop in the airlock, and it will be a bloody carnage in the whole station. Asshole questions deserve nonsense answers.
Blargbot
This is the correct response
WigglyBlondeNoodle
That last one is so close to being an actual interesting question but lands incredibly ignorant. Like I would love to hear about the impacts of low gravity and space travel on menstruation (but no one needs to know what YOU do when you menstruate)
darkwingduckInaMiniSkirt
If I had seen men be asked these questions outside of this post, I probably wouldn't have thought anything off about it. But yea, when I think about it, they really are one-sided with these questions.
FPAlpha
It's not relegated tp sports, entertainment is even more brutal. Male actors get interesting questions and a second later the woman next to him gets asked what her fitness regime is so she can maintain her figure.
PumpkinDriver5
I understand that the questions reinforce gender roles because people ask them of women and not men.
I’m probably in the minority because I think they’re perfectly good questions to ask men. Normalize fatherhood and whatnot.
MantisTobagganMD
#1 Well, funnily enough, Lebron just chose to bring his kid to work.
herejusttopointouterrors
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS!!
scarlettrosewhite
that towel looks like it’s ready for a photo shoot, but the question is serious
dirtcreature
This implies the stereotypes are negative and that women have not been involved in generating and supporting these stereotypes. Time to recognize that this is a large part of the country that is not going away.
theSoulciologist
Yes women can also take part in misogynistic behavior. Did we know that current studies show men with higher T advocate for women's equal rights at twice the reported rate of low T men?
dirtcreature
Why misogynistic? What makes it mysoginy? Many male/female prefer this cultural difference between the principal sexes. Who gets to decide it's wrong? I grew up knowing both major groups of this behavior. Feminism is about removing expectations of performance, not pursuing a vendetta against perceived offense.
Imjurbro
There is a biological difference at work here. It’s a real thing. Maybe if we had meaningful maternity leave in this country, also would help if fathers got equal time more often, it wouldn’t have to be an issue - but we don’t so it’s an honest question.
Imjurbro
“child birth is a real thing and it’s tough” - “give mothers and fathers real maternity leave and make it more fair for mothers” - gets downvoted. You people are unbelievable.
usernamesarenotcomments
I thought the first one was about how Doku was verbally attacked over his plans of attending his first child's birth instead of the world cup game. The quotes are pretty rough. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c74ywv08ylpo
TheFastpaws
Read her so called apology at the bottom as well. What a cunt of a person.
CedricDur
"My intention has never been to minimise the place or role of fathers with their partner and their child... despite having stated exactly this."
PartTimeGamerDad
Just saw that France Pierron was suspended for her comment. Horrible person.
BonzuPippinpaddleopsicopolisTHETHIRD
"...you're going to walk away from it all to attend the birth of your child - a disgusting moment...where the dad is completely useless.'
ImLurkingOnImgur
....wow. is that one of the comments? That person can go and fuck right off.
scrumbles666
I don't know what time portal or secret tomb opened up and started spewing out horrible regressive women, but Europe really should look into sealing that back up again.
PorterPickUp
Less that 35% of women recently polled reported having a positive opinion of men. 75% of men poled had a positive opinion of women. https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/women-men-femosphere-new-statesman-poll-b2958208.html
scrumbles666
Women have a negative view of men because men have chosen to literally burn the world rather than give up male privilege and end patriarchy. That being said, what the fuck does that have to do with shiity neofascist women in Europe? Do you not understand what a regressive is? Do you think the person that believes a man should chose work and nationalism over his wife and family bonding is just hates men?
PorterPickUp
'because' right you are a misandrist. Men literally built everything around you. The easy air conditioned world you can comfortably spew your hatred of men at was built by the labor and ingenuity of men.
scrumbles666
Lol. My world isn't comfortable, bro. It's cooking on it's own fumes while stupid wars rage because men like you would rather lick the boots of dictators than not hate woman. Enjoy being cannon-fodder in the next forever war; I hear it's real manly to die for another dude's money pile.
quade
Serena and Venus Williams, Madison Keys, and Coco Vandeweghe are all US players who have qualified for Grand Slam semi-finals since 2009. I love that he interrupted the reporter here to fact-check his ass.
Druidhunter77
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chefsoda
This was a great moment, and the look on his face is wonderful. That one head nod says, I’m a champion, you don’t need to exclude the victories of others for that to be true.
Sadly, he has to make the same comment in several interviews in a row.
Milolockert
I also appreciate that when the interviewer tried to chuckle it off, he didn't smile and go along
DrKonrad
Such reactions and fact-checking should be the norm
amyamazeballs
Now that's a man without insecurity issues around powerful women!
MrsSlavicHorse
“Hehe, that’s for sure” lol wtf
BeerCir
You can feel the disdain in his voice!
theSoulciologist
His coach is also a celebrated woman. More studies are finding that diversity in mentors increases resiliency and outcomes for mentees, including in sports.
usernamesarenotcomments
I wonder whether he 1) just naturally actively keeps track on other players' results or 2) was expecting bs like this and made sure he was ready
DrewK98
I'm sure a pro tennis player knows who those four players are. Wouldn't be surprised if he knows them personally.
CedricDur
And his last mmhmm, so dry. Fucking love the guy.
wandergirl
During this world cup, I've been hearing a lot about how the US has never won a world cup. We've won four.
Quixus
I am not sure the interviewer got it.
TheFastpaws
They didn’t. That laugh is dismissive as fuck.
SirRichfield
I'm pretty sure he didn't.