The Erin Andrews parade continues
Give me a break… please! (Photo: chuvachienes.com)
Did you hear the Erin Andrews 911 call? Paparazzi have made her a prisoner in her own home, through no fault of her own. She deserves to be let off this train so she can live her life and resume her career in peace. She is good at what she does and has not done anything to invite the kind of attention the illicit peephole video has brought her. Who knows… if she has to stay away from work and continue to hide from drooling mouth breathers, she may soon need short term loans and no fax payday loans in Vermont. Of course she could apply here if she did… I’m just saying.
But what is she going to do in the meantime? There are still lunatics out there who think that Erin Andrews staged the peephole video as a publicity stunt, which is ludicrous. Listen to the 911 call (video below); read the transcript here. This woman is frayed beyond belief and wants things to go back to normal, or as normal as they get for an incredibly attractive woman working in a high-profile job in view of millions of men (a small portion of them perverts).
Defending Erin Andrews
That’s exactly what author “Sooze” does on the blog Babes Love Baseball. She brings our attention to an op-ed piece by Tyler Ohmann, the sports editor for the University Chronicle for St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. I don’t know what they’re teaching up there, but gender sensitivity and the common sense found in a caribou don’t appear to be in the curriculum. He claims Erin Andrews orchestrated the video:
What kind of person irons their pants while in their birthday suit? Apparently, Andrews does.
If she wants to check out her backside all she needs to do is type her name in Google and millions of pictures of her a&* on the sidelines of a football game or baseball diamond will pop-up, check it out there. Clearly if you walk around naked in your hotel room for five minutes, ironing your pants you want someone to walk in or snag a picture from the window or in this case make a peephole video.
Then the misogynistic Ohmann alleges that she paid someone to make the video, and paid them “heftily.”
Here is Sooze’s reply
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She addresses Ohmann in open letter format. After criticizing his grammar, writing and thinking ability, she drives her point home:
Andrews is the victim here. She didn’t pay someone to post nude, voyeuristic videos of her ironing her pants and curling her hair on the internet. The woman has class, which is something you clearly lack. Also, she knows her stuff. Though she is attractive, she’s not just another pretty face. The lady was raised in the business and it shows.
Let’s blame it on all male-dominated sports… that makes sense
If you think that only third-rate sports editors from college newspapers are criticizing Erin Andrews here, you’d be wrong. Bonnie Erbe writes for U.S. News and World Report that Erin Andrews simply should have known better to even get involved in sports broadcasting in the first place. Seriously. Erbe thinks that the peephole incident is representative of male sports culture in general (as if women don’t also enjoy sports). Did she even consider the possibility that there are bad apples out there, and many of them know how to use the Internet to exploit an unfortunate situation?
If you buy into Erbe’s leap of logic, boy do I have a bridge to sell YOU. Here’s the crux of her argument:
I wish women would stop propping up men’s sports. If women didn’t attend NFL games or NBA games, or even watch them on TV to help drive up ratings, they would be doing more to stop men from behaving badly than they could ever do otherwise. If they encouraged their sons to play sports instead of paying to watch other people play baseball or football or basketball or soccer, they would be sending the message that athleticism is good, but pro sports culture is bad. And it is, nothing but bad.
I am well aware this suggestion is the stuff of fantasy. That said, I never have understood why women participate in male sports culture, and then turn around and criticize it when something bad emanates from it. It’s a waste of time, pure and simple.
Erin Andrews 911 call transcript… because somebody demanded it
Dispatcher: DeKalb 911. What’s the address of your emergency?
Andrews: Um, I was in the news recently about being in a hotel naked, and I have paparazzi outside my window, and I was told by law enforcement that if I did to call 911.
Dispatcher: Do you want to meet with an officer?
Dispatcher: Do you want to meet with an officer, ma’am, when they come out?
Andrews: Yeah, these guys are sitting in a car outside my house right now. I would like to tell the officer to have them leave because the cops have told me to call 911 if they’re outside my house.
Dispatcher: And what’s your name?
Andrews: My name is Erin. My last name is Andrews. I’m all over the news right now.
I'm sure these men behave this way because of sports. Their view is as mindlessly simplistic as yours, Ms. Erbe. (Photo: myminddroppings.wordpress.com)
Dispatcher: I’m not familiar.
Andrews: I’m the girl that was videotaped without her knowing, without her clothes on in the hotel.
Dispatcher: Really?
Andrews: And I’ve got two a&*$%^es sitting outside my house.
Dispatcher: I’m so sorry.
Andrews: I am, too. Thank you.
Dispatcher: We’ll send someone out. What kind of vehicle are they in?
Andrews: They’re in a RAV, a white RAV4. I’m in a gated community, and I don’t know how they got in. Mom, can you see their license plates? It’s a handicapped license plate they have. What’s the license plate number?
Dispatcher: What’s the tag number?
Andrews: We’re trying to see. Do you see it, Mom? OK, I’m gonna try and go to another room and see if I can read it. I can’t believe these jerks are knocking on my door. F$%^&ng a#$%^&*s. Mom, you’re totally being obvious.
Dispatcher: Are they black, white or Hispanic?
Andrews: What?
Dispatcher: Are they black, white or Hispanic?
Andrews: They’re both white males. I think it’s – they know I’m here, ’cause I have a car out front. So they know I’m inside. I have private security that I’m working with, but they’re not with me currently, and they said call 911. OK, here’s the license plate. It’s a handicap license plate for Georgia.
Andrews: They’re looking at me through my window.
Dispatcher: Are you OK?
Andrews: Yeah, I’m just – I did nothing wrong, and I’m being treated like f$%^ing Britney Spears, and it s#$%s. I’m sorry.
Dispatcher: OK, the first available unit will see you as soon as possible.
Andrews: Thanks. Do you know how far they’re out?
Dispatcher: No. They should be in – they’ll be here as soon as possible.
Andrews: OK.
Dispatcher: OK, thank you.
Andrews: Thanks.
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(DISCLAIMER: Erin Andrews is very upset here and uses two or three words that are not family appropriate)
