A minor furor is erupting over a new feature on Fanhouse. The Fanhouse has obtained the services of FantasySportsGirl. Part of the displeasure over the Fantasy Sports Girl addition centers on the fact that the Fanhouse is fairly progressive in terms of female representation.
Wonder if this feature had anything to do with the departure, don? Overall, the critical reaction is justified by itself. He plays around with it and self-mocks, knowing it? And at least there? This Fantasy Sports Girl bit is just bad. Really, really bad. Whether one wants to judge the intelligence or self-deprecation of the feature, there does not seem to be much separation between that and the Fantasy Sports Girl videos.
Or against posting pictures of women in bikinis next to articles that have nothing to do with them? Or when someone like Pam Ward β who, whether you like her work or not, has achieved far more in her career than Erin Andrews β gets referred to as a man or a lesbian and is generally disrespected?
All the Fanhouse is doing is presenting this sexism in its barest form. Perhaps that is what irritates so many. At least Fantasy Sports Girl is pure, unvarnished sexism. Jon Lewis has been covering the sports media industry on a daily basis since as the founder and main writer of Sports Media Watch. You can contact him here or on the social media websites X Twitter , Threads or Bluesky.
All the sadness and outrage over the Erin Andrews video could conceivably make one think that such a thing The Erin Andrews saga has reached a new level. Hidden camera video of the ESPN sideline reporter nude has Like, I dunno, possibly ones about sports written by women?
