Wow… I thought I sort of liked Tony Kornheiser, not that I know a whole lot about him, but this is ridiculous. It’s just so… funny, I suppose, that the system that gives rise to women in sports reporting wearing more provocative or at least “cute” clothing (which, not that I care, but I think the outfit she is wearing looks fine), while men wear the typical no-brainer suit uniform, also allows men to judge out loud whether their colleagues are being compliant enough with said system. (Wear frumpy clothes and you don’t get noticed, but go “too far” the other way and people feel free to make fun of you for being “old” and pathetic.) I mean, sure, you might see a sports analyst joking about another guy’s loud suit but I think we all know that would have a far different tone. Why… it’s almost like this is a no-win situation for women or something.
Of course, this is what happens when we have 24-hour news and people have to think of stuff to say to fill the time. Eventually they are going to say something stupid and usually it’s something that reflects their true colors.
spacedcowgirl 
February 25, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Tony Kornheiser. Sports guy. Fashion critic. Millionaire.
What can’t this guy do???
((ugh. asshole.))
February 25, 2010 at 3:49 pm
I know. I am trying to imagine anything that would cause me to go into a public forum and criticize my colleague’s outfit (up to and including the whole “she’s too old to be wearing that” and commenting on how tight her shirt was), but that is so far from anything I can imagine a reasonable person doing that I am coming up blank. (I feel like even the most sexist guys I’ve worked with would have had, if not the decency, maybe the shame to gossip about something like this in a small group rather than airing it right out there in public.) I guess you have to be Tony Kornheiser for this to seem like an OK thing to do. On the other hand, I guess his employer does pay him to pretty much say whatever comes into his head.