Comments on: This Week In Sexist History: Girls, Girls, Girls Edition

By: This Week In Sexist History: Bathing Beauties Edition - The Sexist - Washington City Paper

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:46:33 +0000

[...] What’s lifting these male vacationers from the depths of their pathetic existences? If you’ve been studying your Sexist History, you’d know that the answer probably starts with Pretty and ends with Girls: [...]

By: Vintage Sexism Finds Modern Defenders - The Sexist - Washington City Paper

Vintage Sexism Finds Modern Defenders - The Sexist - Washington City Paper — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:05:13 +0000

[...] this commenter’s response to a 1909 sports reporter’s rhapsodic, objectifying, and paragraphs-long detailing of all girls in the audience. It’s an account which has apparently aged well over the past [...]

By: Bingles and bungles were bunched in the breakaway « Viva Cerveceros

Bingles and bungles were bunched in the breakaway « Viva Cerveceros — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:44:30 +0000

[...] July 9 by The Mighty Boosh I was linked to this post in the Washington City Paper’s blog The Sexist and it included what I can only assume to be old-timey baseball speak, describing the 1909 [...]

By: Last Week’s Most Popular Blog Posts - The Sexist - Washington City Paper

Last Week’s Most Popular Blog Posts - The Sexist - Washington City Paper — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:44:49 +0000

[...] America’s birthday than reading a bunch of random shit about sex on the Internet? 1. This Week in Sexist History: Girls, Girls, Girls Edition, an indulgence in olde-tyme sports writing. I say it’s sexist! Commenter says it isn’t! [...]

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:10:33 +0000

@Steve: Amazing, actually.

By: Steve Silver

Steve Silver — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:03:32 +0000

Interesting how it has to be explained to some readers 100 years later that an article published 100 years ago describing women purely as objects for men's pleasure is sexist.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:49:27 +0000

Bingles and bungles were bunched in the breakaway? Honestly, I wish all reporting was still like this.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:48:38 +0000

How on earth is that sexist? I don't see one comment that is disparaging of women. He's simply admiring the abundance of women at the event, and his writing is actually fantastic, much better than most of the BS that's out there today.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:26:54 +0000

Sexist, but the sportswriting was much more colorful back then. I'm sure the author even put some thought into it.

By: "Classy? Rather! Pep? Plenty Of It!" [Girls, Girls, Girls] by Funny Celebrity . info

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:20 +0000

[...] Sexist has dug up this little gem, a clipping from a 1909 Harvard vs. Yale baseball game, in which the writer fills several inches of [...]