Men Read #MoreThanMean Tweets to Female Sports Reporters in Powerful New Video
Published on Apr 26, 2016
, Surprise You've seen sports figures reading mean tweets about themselves on Jimmy Kimmel Live, right? It's generally pretty funny.
In a powerful and very unfunny new video, the podcast Just Not Sports examines what it looks like when mean tweets go way too far.
Directed by Chad Cooper and One Tree Forest Films, the video shows real men (not actors) reading actual tweets to sports reporters Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro. The result is a disturbing look into what reality looks like for all too many women who make a living in sports.
Per the video's release from Just Not Sports: In reading the statements out loud to women journalists, guys are forced to experience, sometimes for the first time, the shocking online harassment happening to women in sports day in, day out. It serves as proof most sports fans would NEVER say these things to another person – so we shouldn't type this garbage, either.
Published on Apr 26, 2016
, Surprise You've seen sports figures reading mean tweets about themselves on Jimmy Kimmel Live, right? It's generally pretty funny.
In a powerful and very unfunny new video, the podcast Just Not Sports examines what it looks like when mean tweets go way too far.
Directed by Chad Cooper and One Tree Forest Films, the video shows real men (not actors) reading actual tweets to sports reporters Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro. The result is a disturbing look into what reality looks like for all too many women who make a living in sports.
Per the video's release from Just Not Sports: In reading the statements out loud to women journalists, guys are forced to experience, sometimes for the first time, the shocking online harassment happening to women in sports day in, day out. It serves as proof most sports fans would NEVER say these things to another person – so we shouldn't type this garbage, either.
