The best you can come up with as proof of “sexism” is one reporter’s memory of a time long gone. You insist that “[w]omen are vastly underrepresented in sports journalism” but have not bothered to document any research on female journalists’ *desire* to work in sports journalism. What if the number of women in sports journalism accurately represents the proportion who actually want to work in that field? (Should I even bother talking about male writers in female-dominated fields, or would that be triggering?)

If women face so many barriers in the present day, why are such a huge percentage of major newspapers’ sports editors actually women? There are very few such editors in total, so the proportionality question becomes relevant. (It isn’t an example of tokenism.)

I find it suspicious that you did not survey female sportswriters who might disprove your thesis, like Mary Ormsby, Crusty Blatchford, or even (this is a bit of speculation) Mary Jollimore. Yet the subjects you did canvass plainly say they are leaving sexism behind them.

I simply don’t see any documentation of your handy-dandy academic’s claim that “the way female sports broadcasters speak is distinctly masculine, while their appearances are exaggeratedly feminine.” On the latter point, there’s only one Rachel Maddow and it’s unrealistic to expect all women on TV to look like her. Besides, I thought it was a central tenet of feminism to empower women to wear whatever they want without unwanted comment. I further thought that progressive journalists of your generation think that gender is a social construct, hence some women have penises and there is no such thing as a “distinctly masculine” way of anything.

Would you even bother writing an article about gay men in sports journalism, or are we not the right kind of victim for your preconceived narrative? Because that narrative is quite apparent here.

Are you further unaware that this topic has been documented *to death* for longer than you have been old enough to write a paragraph? In fact, couldn’t your article have been published at any time in the last 30 years, except for the pesky truth that the underlying conditions and facts have changed?