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“Just Noticing:” Observations of a Blogger

Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 14th, 2016

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Good morning!

It’s been an interesting and exciting week watching the Olympics.

I’m also noticing a few “trends”  - Ok, let’s just call it what it is: “Sexism” – out there when it comes to the comments and remarks made about women and their Olympic successes. Olympic swimmer Katinka Hosszu broke the world record in the 400-meter individual medley, and the NBC commentator Dan Hicks makes a comment that Hosszu’s husband/coach, Shane Tusupis the man responsible.” Really? I remember watching the competition and it seems she won it all by herself.

A few days ago I broached the topic on objectifying women in the Olympics by the media paying more attention to a woman’s appearance than her athletic prowess. Now we’re seeing how women’s successes are undermined, and how they are recognized as a supporting role when they are in reality, the star of the show.

It seems I’m not alone in the “noticing.”

Here’s the write from the Huff Po:

Women, Media Bias And The Olympics

SWIMMING-OLY-2016-RIO

Co-writers Jennifer Cunningham and Nell Callahan

Over the weekend one of us accidentally retweeted the story about the Corey Codgell headline debacle — “Wife of a Bear’s Lineman Wins a Bronze Medal” — with the hashtag Katinka Hosszu. A communications professional wouldn’t ordinarily make an error like that. But it never occurred to us that members of the media had twice celebrated the husbands of different women Olympians.

It shouldn’t have happened once.

You know what else shouldn’t have happened? Swimmer Katie Ledecky — after winning the gold medal and beating her own world record — being referred to as the female Michael Phelps.

It’s tempting to condemn this dismissal of women’s success as deliberately hostile but the trend actually reflects a deeper, more insidious worldview: the media simply does not take women and our triumphs — particularly in sports as — seriously as those of men.

A major issue is, clearly, the way women are talked about. Just days before the Olympics began, CNN reported on a UK study that:

Analyzing over 160 million words from decades of newspapers, academic papers, tweets and blogs …finds men are three times more likely than women to be mentioned in a sporting context [i.e. “strong, big, real, great or fastest,] while women are disproportionately described in relation to their marital status, age or appearance [i.e. “aged, pregnant or unmarried].

The disparity is not, however, simply the language that is used; there is real inequality in women’s treatment as well.

Despite no physiological reason for it, women’s Olympic swimming, running and cycling races are shorter than men’s. Olympic boxing limits women’s participation to three events, men get to compete in ten. The Wall street Journal points out that: “The Rio Olympics will feature 169 events for men and 137 for women, meaning that men will walk away with more than 55% of the gold, silver and bronze medallions handed out.” In that same Wall Street Journal article, a spokesman for the International Cycling Union said “the shorter women’s course makes for a more entertaining race.”

That’s a compelling argument. Is entertainment the same reason the women’s Olympic volleyball team wear bikinis while the men’s team wears t-shirts and long shorts?

There is decreasing tolerance for this treatment, both from women athletes themselves and from the public in general. This past December the U.S. Women’s soccer team refused to continue playing games on dangerous turf, pointing that their male counterparts were never asked to do so. More recently they have raised a fight for equal pay.

Over the past few days the social media response to the dismissive treatment of Corey Codgell, Katinka Hosszu and Katie Ledecky was swift and unequivocal: this was not acceptable.
This response is encouraging but it’s not quite enough — because, again, it should not have happened in the first place. Let alone the second place. Or the third.

Our firm, SKDKnickerbocker, created a specific women’s advocacy practice because we think it’s important to advance women’s issues and leaders. And as women leaders and advocates ourselves, particularly ones who work closely with members of the media, we would be remiss if we didn’t call out a news trend that is not only disrespectful to athletes themselves but perpetuates an environment that is frankly biased against women.

These women are playing at the utmost top of the game. They deserve a level playing field, in every sense.

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6 Responses to ““Just Noticing:” Observations of a Blogger”

  1. Silvia Says:

    Michelle, I said the same thing when Katinka Hosszu broke the world record in the 400-meter. My husband looked like i had pissed in his beer.

    But men are so full of themselves that they never bother to think about what they say or do that demeans women.

  2. Dhuthi Says:

    Ritu Rani, India’s inspirational former women’s hockey captain, was dropped from the Olympics-bound squad on grounds of attitude and fitness. But the former men’s skipper Sardar Singh, accused of rape, appears to enjoy the support of the mandarins of sport and made the Rio cut. The tale of the two captains reeks of gender bias.

  3. Sandra Says:

    Anyone watching women win one third of all British medals in the 2012 Olympic games and elite sportswomen such as Jessica Ennis-Hill and Nicola Adams become household names would be forgiven for expecting the nation’s newspapers to transform their coverage of women’s sports in subsequent years. Yet a report out on Thursday shows how wrong anyone would be.

    Research from Birmingham University reveals that six of our national newspapers actually produced fewer stories about women’s sports a year on from the Olympics than they did before. In total, stories about men’s sports outnumbered those about women’s sports by 20 to one in March 2013 in six national titles – the Sun, Mirror, Times, Telegraph, Mail and Express.

  4. Turnner Says:

    I’m British. Sigh, not this again. Female coverage falls show of male simply because people prefer to witness the best – be it indivuals, teams or entire leagues. Most female athletes can’t cater for this demand.

  5. Heidi Says:

    Michelle, you are so right. Here are two clear cases of unequal treatment based on gender. The Japanese women’s soccer team and the Australian women’s soccer and basketball teams were relegated to economy while their male counterparts flew business class. This is despite the fact that the women’s teams are ranked higher and have played better in the past. The Japanese women’s soccer team won the World Cup last summer, and is favored to win a gold medal this year. Similarly, the Australian women’s basketball and soccer teams have much higher international rankings than the men’s teams. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the women’s basketball team “won silver medals at the last three Olympics, and won bronze in 1996. The Boomers [the men’s team] have never won an Olympics medal.”

    The former captain of the women’s basketball team weighed in, saying she knows it’s about gender: “It’s been a bit of a sore spot, especially since the women are much more successful.

    I’m yet to find a nice answer for it other than they’re male and we’re female. You’d hate that that’s the reason, but I’m sure it is.”

    It won’t stop until the women demand equality like the women tennis players did when they refused to play until they received equal pay to the men.

  6. Gwen Says:

    Another example of the sexualization of female athletes is ESPN’s Body Issue, which displays nude photographs of Olympic athletes. While the idea seems good — shooting the athletes nude could very effectively highlight the strength of their incredible bodies — the photographs overwhelmingly depict men in active poses, whereas over half of the women are depicted in passive, pin-up type poses.

    Unfortunately, the Body Issue fails to move beyond the default depiction of women as passive objects — because the women are standing still, the fact that they are naked is more important than the fact that they are athletes.