Boobs, Thongs, Footballers,and a Latina reporter

"After all, men at nude beaches are incredibly discreet about expressing their feelings towards any women who they see in such an environment, if they don’t want to get booted from the place."
Dear friends,

It's football season. If you remember, back in the fall of 2010, there were a number of articles, regarding the treatment of a Mexican female reporter and an incident that happened between her and some NFL football players in a locker room. At least for me, every single piece that I’d read had been totally distant from the real issue. That is: the main theses of these articles (how females dress around male athletes) are red herrings, and have absolutely nothing to do with the way that females either are or should be treated in male athletes’ locker rooms.

Now, I’m speaking from experience. You see, back in the late-Seventies, when female reporters were first allowed into men’s locker rooms, I was Joe Frazier's protégé, fighting out of Philadelphia. After fights, while I was cool and respectful with them, always putting on a robe whenever it was announced that a female reporter wanted to interview me, some of my boys would do stuff like, literally, stand naked and stroke themselves right in front of any female reporter, as she turned her head away, while, simultaneously, trying to write on a pad or hold up the microphone from a tape recorder to any of the aforementioned masturbators’ mouthes.

That was especially the case, if one of those vulgar fighters had other guys standing around to watch, including male reporters (all from different news agencies) who would stand there amused as much as the idiot athletes. In that situation, female reporters were, obviously, humiliated and embarrassed beyond belief.

Consequently, the real problem lies with the fact that Male Supremacy (euphemistically called “sexism”) frowns upon the whole idea of females in men’s locker rooms, except when they are serving the exact same purpose of being sex objects as, unfortunately, most women outside of locker rooms seem obliged to be.

Additionally, the cats who fought not to have women in the locker rooms, during those days, were the same guys who were vocally-outraged about affirmative action and abortion rights, as were my vulgar boxing buddies mentioned above who conspired, not so unwittingly, with the other sexists just mentioned to keep females “in their places”.

Worse yet, I find it interesting, and I’m absolutely certain, that none of my boxing buddies here-to-mentioned would have wanted either their wives or girlfriends to know about, much less see, their behavior with the disrespected female reporters/victims. Dig? Additionally, it’s pretty pathetic that even African American and Latino male athletes join(ed) with other cowards in this scumbag behavior, in order to find self-worth.

Moreover, I think that, perhaps, it’s instructive for us to keep the dialogue in the proper context of what is really at the bottom of this whole mess, and not trivialize it by pointing out nonsense about how someone either dresses or carries herself. After all, men at nude beaches are incredibly discreet about expressing their feelings towards any women who they see in such an environment, if they don’t want to get booted from the place.

Besides, in some Latin American countries, like Brazil, women can be seen, for example, in television laundry commercials, in full frontal nudity. I’ve seen it. Therefore, Puritanical views about a female’s attire - or lack of it, can be out of place, if not altogether uncalled for. Feel me?

At any rate, on the link below, Philadelphia Daily News columnist Solomon Jones, although he offers a slightly different “take”, shares, along with many of his colleagues, some thoughts in the practice of what I see as missing the whole point here about Ines Sainz’s situation. What do you think?

G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20100918_Solomon_Jones__Half-dressed_women_and_naked_men.html