49er's Personal Foul

[mactbone]

There's a story that broke out yesterday about a tape that the PR director for the football team, the San Francisco 49er's, made which to me is incredibly awful and insensentive when you consider the source and the stated objective. It includes gay and racial stereotypes along with many topless women.

The article is here.

The video can be accessed (in blurred form) here.

What I can't understand is how people are defending this with the "boys will be boys" defense and "the locker room is a different place". It doesn't matter where you are or who you are, you need to have a modicum of respect for all people

[Japher]

The PR guy was fired... I don't think anyone is really defending it, more just scoffing at it.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It was supposed to be an inhouse thing just for the Niners to watch and laugh. Nothing (except the topless women) would be out of place in a Saturday Night Live skit. It was ONLY released because Tom Donahue, former coach of the Niners, was feeling vindictive towards his old team.

I really have no problems with the video. Who cares?

[Agathon]

I thought some of it was pretty funny. Most of it was them poking fun at themselves.

[MichaeltheGreat]

You mean some NFL players are macho, sexist pigs?

[Lawrence of Arabia]

i have no problem either. Go niners! alex smith + a healthy julius peterson will lead us to 4 wins this year.

[Japher]

Yaaay! 4 Wins!!! We Can Do It!

[Dis]

it doesn't work with firefox.

just tell me if there are topless women in this video before I bother loading up internet explorer.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Dissident
it doesn't work with firefox.

just tell me if there are topless women in this video before I bother loading up internet explorer.

Get the firefox extention that allows you to open IE with a right click and it will be much easier.

[Sprayber]

Must be a slow news week out in SF if that is the best they can come up with.

[Dis]

down with blurred nudity. That's the only reason I watched this thing

[mactbone]

A PR Director for a company that includes a city in it's title makes an innapropriate video that was meant for handling the media and was presented after a diversity training program, is no big deal?

So objectifying women, and showing a bunch of guys that, hey who cares if a woman is a reporter, she’s just a pair of mammaries, is ok? There was no educational value in this film, it was stupid and the guy who made it is a moron. The guy may have set himself up as the buffoonish jerk ala Peter Griffin or Homer Simpson, but there was no come-uppance or acknowledgement that the disrespect of diversity is simply wrong. Therefore this sends the exact opposite message the film was supposed to be used for.

[Japher]

obviously you took nothing away from that film

mammories = boobies (hehehehe)

[:) Smiley]

This story made a full-width headline in the papers here.

If football was in season now, there'd be picket lines.

[Dis]

I guess I'm a bad person for not finding this shocking.

I do support women's rights. But it's not like these strippers for forced to do this. They were paid very well do to that.

and no one pays attention to training films anyways. People aren't going to learn how to treat women at the age of 22. This is stuff they learn from their parents/guardians when growing up. If they haven't learned by now, they never will.