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Sports radio host Don Geronimo fired after sexist ‘Barbie’ comments toward female reporter
Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2023-07-30 18:45
Article here. Excerpt:
'Sports radio host Michael Sorce, who goes by the name Don Geronimo on air, was fired by WBIG-FM on Sunday following sexist remarks he made toward a female reporter at Washington Commanders training camp.
While speaking with co-host Crash Young, Geronimo made several offensive comments about WUSA9 Washington D.C. reporter Sharla McBride, including shouting, “Hi, Barbie girl” as she walked past him.
iHeartMedia is the parent company of WBIG-FM, which signed a three-year partnership with the Commanders in 2022.
“After an internal review, Don Geronimo is no longer an employee of WBIG,” iHeartMedia’s D.C. Region president Aaron Hyland said in a statement to the Washington Post. “We take matters of this nature very seriously and this behavior does not align with our core values.”'
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The issue here is not was he in bad taste but...
... the consequences fitting the offense. Lose your job over referring to a Barbie-looking fellow reporter as Barbie? And what's so terrible abt looking like a cheerleader? Tell me if he were a she, would she have been fired? Or if the sexes were inverted and a big military-looking guy was referred to by a female reporter as a "GI Joe", would she lose her job over it?