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...firing of Don Imus makes me cringe. Through all the talk of the shock-jock’s insult to Rutgers’ women’s basketball, the meaning of his words for women’s sports has somehow been woefully lost. The networks’ knee-jerk response—silencing Imus —fails miserably to deal with the question at hand: why are women’s sports still a joke...
...college women cry. It’s about evaluating women athletes—at the top of their game, at the height of success—in purely misogynistic terms. Instead of commenting on the level of play, the highlights of the game, or the achievements of the players, Imus only assessed their physical appearance—and he did so using the most degrading of terms...
...didn’t matter that he had probably never met these women (though apparently the team met privately with Imus to discuss his comments). It didn’t matter that these women had worked tirelessly as both students and athletes to make it to this championship game. All that mattered was that they were women; and women, according to Don Imus and Bernard McGuirk, are ultimately just a joke on the basketball court...
Shutting down Imus is bad for women’s athletics, and it’s bad for free expression. Someone—however contemptible—lost his job because people would rather shut him up by firing him than by confronting what he said. But such suppression does little to address the underlying problem. Next time, that person might not be so easy to despise. If, 35 years after the enactment of Title IX, the validity of women’s athletics is still a question for some, and women athletes are still derided for their athleticism?...
...years later, crisis management is proving harder than ever. (Just ask Don Imus.) The biggest change comes from the demands of always-on news. Companies now have to sweat not only the morning's headlines but endless blog postings and runaway video clips that can (and do) appear 24 hours a day. Even when there isn't much new information, blogs can keep a crisis alive--and smart companies must pay as much attention to them as they do to the national media...