Oops Chris

[Godchin]

Bit rich of 10 to complain when they like every other tv station have never hired an unattractive female in like ever.

Mel Jones is a like a 2/10

 

[sherb]

Clear winner - M McLaughlin

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/best-looker-of-the-foxsportsnews-female-presenters.527969/

 

[Gray Day]

k

So when is Mel going to tell us her thoughts? I want to hear the thoughts of a big strong independent woman who was hired for her extreme competence.

 

[blackcat]

Are you for real? She pretty clearly did so as it happened.

offended or embarrassed because it was on camera and it was her work and she was trying to be professional and get the interview done? I dont think we can know that. And we definitely cannot "know it" in the version of 2016 dynamic without the last few years of backlash feminism. The contrived TOO strident backlash retaliation version. MM was not retaliation, that is not what I am implying. I am implying however, is it her conditioning to come across as indignant and infringed upon in this instance. I cant answer that, you cant answer that, it would require someone with extreme sense of self-awareness to see their own influences and understand their own behaviour.

 

[Cotchin 9]

Tbf tho that press conference was a farce. Just reinforces that he's a dick.

You're a clown.

 

[nobbyiscool]

It does beg the question, if it's such a well established fact that Chris Gayle doesn't mind trying to have a crack at any female that takes his eye, what the hell is a female reporter doing interviewing him in the first place?

Victim blaming much?

"If she doesn't want to be r*ped, why is she wearing a short skirt".

Nice job demonstrating yet another example of this countries problem with women.

 

[2006_Eagles]

What's your point? She was doing her job. Gayle should've done his. That doesn't excuse what he did. That doesn't justify what he did. So what's your point? Unless you're victim blaming of course. Which I don't think you are. But that's how it could be interpreted.

All they had to do was have Mel not interview Chris Gayle. That's was 0.1% of her job last night.

Channel 10 have the blood on their hands here, they put the conditions together to create a perfect (shit)storm.

(no I'm not condoning Gayle's behaviour either)

 

[blackcat]

So when is Mel going to tell us her thoughts? I want to hear the thoughts of a big strong independent women who was hired for her extreme competence.

I think the story is now less McLaughlin and less Doyle, and those parties have lost any relevance to the interview contretemps and are now mere cyphers in the echo chamber, one of which is this thread.

 

[nobbyiscool]

I didn't really want to go down this road anyway as it's a non sequitur.

Exactly!

So why do people keep discussing Channel 10's hiring practices, how McLaughlin looks, and whether or not she's qualified as a diversion to the actual issue at hand?

 

[aflcliche]

Isn't it actually a compliment to her. Even Chris gets rejected, what hope have I got?

 

[ManWithNoName]

You're a clown.

k

 

[ManWithNoName]

All they had to do was have Mel not interview Chris Gayle. That's was 0.1% of her job last night.

Channel 10 have the blood on their hands here, they put the conditions together to create a perfect storm.

So? How does this defend or justify his behaviour? It doesn't. So it's irrelevant.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

All they had to do was have Mel not interview Chris Gayle. That's was 0.1% of her job last night.

Channel 10 have the blood on their hands here, they put the conditions together to create a perfect storm.

Why can't you say Chris Gayle is the one who fucked up?

 

[krisholio14]

You're getting very close to victim blaming.

Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour.

I know the people that are outraged by this think their outrage can beat men like Chris Gayle into submission. But it doesn't work. It never has and it never will.

It's like asking someone to put their hand in a fire and hoping they won't get burnt.

 

[CarnDaTigg's]

Because it's her job?

Straffo pls

 

[Flameboy]

When even the Herald Sun/news.com.au are calling out an apology you know that it was pathetic.

If you're so concerned about his intentions, have a listen to the link that multiple posters have put up where Neroli Meadows & Melinda Farrell both state that this is common and constant behaviour from Gayle that isn't meant as a joke but is intentional and disrespectful.

I did listen to it and it is quite enlightening.

However the point still stands that I can see where he's coming from in all of this - and where I disagree with you. He doesn't take life seriously, let alone the Big Bash, let alone an interview on the sidelines after he's just been dismissed. He's not a serious person, and he's certainly not trying to offend women when he compliments them.

 

[nobbyiscool]

All they had to do was have Mel not interview Chris Gayle. That's was 0.1% of her job last night.

Channel 10 have the blood on their hands here, they put the conditions together to create a perfect storm.

So they should alter there coverage to excuse the fact that he's a pig, rather than him just not being a pig?

This doesn't make any sense.

Suggesting "they put the conditions together" is like blaming alcohol providers for assaults, rather than blaming the person who committed the assault.

 

[CarnDaTigg's]

Bit rich of 10 to complain when they like every other tv station have never hired an unattractive female in like ever.

Doesnt Chrissy Swan work for them?

 

[2006_Eagles]

Why can't you say Chris Gayle is the one who fucked up?

I've spent most of this thread saying this very fact if you'll kindly go back and read it

 

[sherb]

Exactly!

So why do people keep discussing Channel 10's hiring practices, how McLaughlin looks, and whether or not she's qualified as a diversion to the actual issue at hand?

Because those are part of the broader issue.

At least the fist two for me are - I've been watching MM for many years on and off and I think she is an excellent sports journalist.

 

[2006_Eagles]

So they should alter there coverage to excuse the fact that he's a pig, rather than him just not being a pig?

This doesn't make any sense.

Suggesting "they put the conditions together" is like blaming alcohol providers for assaults, rather than blaming the person who committed the assault.

All I'm saying is it probably could have been avoided

 

[CarnDaTigg's]

As I've previously quoted, her boss has come out said that he spoke to her, and that she was offended, angry and embarrassed.

How do you not see that expecting the woman to come out and speak about it before it has any validity is part of the problem? Her claims can have validity without her having to go on air and shed tears, just so people like you know that she's upset.

Similar to the woman "Tracey" in the dusty incident. Why should we take them seriously if they wont put their name to it

 

[blackcat]

While having a 1000 notches on the belt sounds good in theory, it really is pretty loose when you think about it.

which is why I raised the example Mike Daisey elucidated (to) in one of his monologues.

Can Wilt Chamberlin really have sex with 10k women? physically I am sure he could, and I am sure Warnie had sex with a few thousand women too.

But, do you really have "sex" with those women. No, you dont, not in my understanding of the act, which is just as much mental and pyschological as corporeal.

 

[JUBJUB]

Yeah but as Meadows/a million people have said, his behaviour is well known, so why poke the bear?

I think that's what he wanted to do to her

 

[eth-dog]

People have ragged on Sam Lane, Chrissie Swan, Gretel Killeen, Angela Bishop etc for years.

Seriously?

Mel Jones is a like a 2/10

Again, seriously?