'Things are gonna get a lot worse.' Female sports reporters are worried about Elon Musk's Twitter takeover
to reporter Susan Fornoff, who said Kingman told her he believed women didn’t belong in the clubhouse. In 1990, Lisa Olson of the Bostonrevealed that several New England Patriots players exposed themselves to her and sexually harassed her; she said she received death threats after making the allegations, whichfound to be true. These days, sports fans spew venom toward women journalists via anonymous Twitter handles.
Female sports journalists, says Armour, are “a threat to the quote-unquote, natural order, or the way things have always been. For generations, sports was a male domain. Sports were played by men, and written about and consumed by men. It was a boys’ game. That’s no longer the case. And there are some people who don’t deal real well with that.”Armour gives Twitter credit for responding to reports of abuse.
DiCaro, who says that online abuse drove her back into therapy last year, hasn’t seen the same volume of vile messages as she did a few years ago. She chalks up this improvement, however, to female sports journalists such as herself ignoring their detractors, and using Twitter’s blocking and muting mechanisms to their advantage. “We have seen sort of a downtick in it, but it’s because we’ve made the choice to use these things Twitter’s made available,” says DiCaro.
Some sports journalists worry that Musk is conflating free speech guaranteed by governments with sensible rules created by private organizations. While it’s legal, for example, to walk into a store and hurl insults at fellow customers, the manager has every right to kick you out. “We need to have some civic education about what freedom of speech actually means,” says Armour.
“About Elon Musk saying he wants to encourage more free speech, my viewpoint is, is this free speech going to come with accountability still intact?” saysSome journalists are skeptical, given Musk’s past history. A 2018
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