{"id":94,"date":"2011-10-16T09:32:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T14:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=94"},"modified":"2011-10-16T09:32:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T14:32:28","slug":"why-cant-a-woman-be-more-like-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2011\/10\/16\/why-cant-a-woman-be-more-like-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all due respects to Rex Harrison<\/a> in “My Fair Lady” , when it comes to sports journalism , why would she want to be?…Women offer a unique perspective and are just as qualified…<\/p>\n

But it certainly hasn’t always been a smooth road…Ask Barbara Borin, Alice Cook \u00a0and Lisa Olson, to name a few, about working in a male dominated business…And there’s a fine line that men never have to worry about…”There are going to be positives and negatives to being a woman in this business, stated Louise Cornetta<\/a> of ESPN Radio recently at a Boston University sports journalism seminar, and I’m just going to have to forget about the negatives because I’m always going to be a woman and just be happy with the positives and if some times that means David Ortiz is going to talk to me over someone else, then great, but once we start talking, I have to prove my worth” …And prove it she does…Having started as a freelancer and radio producer, Cornetta now serves as a Program Director for ESPN Radio and contributes to ESPN, The Magazine <\/em>and ESPNBoston.com…<\/p>\n

The key is equality…Women in the locker room don’t want to be singled out, don’t want to be treated any differently and don’t want special consideration….Kat Hasenhauer<\/a> writes numerous blogs in and around the city and has a very simple approach for men working alongside women at the games, “If they’re in the press box next to you, or at a paper or at a website, don’t treat them any differently then you would anybody else. \u00a0They’re there for the same reason you are. \u00a0Treat them like you’d want to be treated if you were in their shoes.”<\/p>\n

It all sounds so simple but rarely is…Women stand out in a locker room, a news conference, a press box….but they are every bit as talented, dedicated to what they do and every bit as entitled \u00a0to be there…Sorry Rex, this isn’t 1956 any more…thank goodness…Perhaps, as Rex does in Act two, you too will break out in song “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face”<\/a>…without the Damn! Damn! Damn!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all due respects to Rex Harrison in “My Fair Lady” , when it comes to sports journalism , why would she want to be?…Women offer a unique perspective and are just as qualified… But it certainly hasn’t always been a smooth road…Ask Barbara Borin, Alice Cook \u00a0and Lisa Olson, to name a few, about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}