It’s the day after the Washington Post’s exposé on the disgusting culture of misogyny that seems to run through the building at the headquarters for the Washington football club, the one that so far has led to two team personnel executives being fired and the longtime voice of the team announcing a hasty retirement.
The entire situation is appalling. Female reporters and team employees propositioned by men in the building and the men pressing even when they’ve been told no; lewd behavior like staring up women’s skirts through a plexiglass stairwell; demands that women show off their bodies to sell expensive suites for a perennially underperforming team; comments that imply that a woman’s value is tied to her breast size; and women being forced into bathrooms to cry together and commiserate about the vile behavior they’re enduring in the name of the so-called prestige of working for an NFL franchise.