How many women have to say they feel harassed by this kind of thing happening to them at work before it is conceded by some men that it might just constitute unacceptable behaviour?And so to Chris Gayle,cricket’s Andrea Dworkin, who has found himself in peril in Australia for being sexy. Hang on – that’s wrong. For being sexist. It is, and as David St Hubbins once mused,such a fine line.
Interviewed live on air by the cricket reporter Mel McLaughlin during a tremendous Bash match in Hobart, Gayle opted to assess his tremendous-hitting style thusly: “To see your eyes for the first time is nice. Hopefully we can have a drink afterwards. Don’t blush, or baby.” We shall arrive to the reporter’s obvious discomfort later – and indeed that of so many of her fellow female journalists who have had similar experiences with the West Indies star,and who have since gone on record to detail them.
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Source: theguardian.com