Ambar Garcia needs to go

Not every woman. At least, I don't remember Lindsey Draper getting criticized like Amber and Taylor have been. There was also a woman who's name I don't remember a few years back who really knew her stuff and who was bright that moved away to get married, IIRC. She didn't catch much flak. And it's maybe unrelated, but Kristie Scales is an example of a woman involved with the local Cowboys coverage who's pretty much universally well-liked.

It's got a lot less to do with them being women and more to do with them being inarticulate and largely ignorant about the game.

It's also worth nothing that Talor Stern gets less criticism now that she's learned a lot more about what she's talking about. She's still a bit rough to listen too when she meanders a few sentences too long about something obvious that everybody already understands, but she's gotten to a point where it's no different listening to her wander a bit than it is listening to Broaddus bloviate or Mickey truculently pretend he doesn't understand whatever basic question somebody asks him.

 

I won't debate that it's harder for women and that they don't get the benefit of the doubt--especially in a male-dominated pastime like football. It's really only an issue, though, because they want a woman and they want an hispanic viewpoint on the shows and they apparently didn't have the option of having both of those things and someone who knew what she was talking about out of the box. A guy who was mostly-clueless about the game wouldn't even get a shot, no matter how hot he was. And if he did, he'd get savaged by hard core fans, too.

Actually...I take that last part back. That dude with the beard who's on Hangin' with the Boys is sort of an idiot, too, and nobody complains about him, do they? He bugged me a bit at first, even though that show was barely listenable and wasn't really about football anyway. But now they're trying to make it more topical, and he still sucks and nobody really has brought it up yet, unless I've missed it.