Arch Manning's Misogyny

College Men Are Highly Problematic

If you haven’t seen the video, it’s time you were made aware of what female football reporters are going through in this country.

It is clearly no longer safe to be a sports reporter these days, particularly if you identify as a woman and don’t make it your highest priority in life to appeal to the male gaze.

Due to sexism, the patriarchy, and misogyny making a comeback, along with the rising dangers of AI, women (and yes, trans-women are women) and their loyal male allies are clearly no longer safe being sports reporters.

Right now it might just be Arch Manning and his repugnant joke about Holly Rowe. But yesterday it was Steve Sarkisian and his implicit dismissal of Ms. Rowe and her important career (a right that women fought hard for in this country). And tomorrow it might be other AI videos making fun of all the women (and their loyal male allies) standing up for Ms. Rowe on the Internet (a dangerous place for women these days).

This should serve as a wake-up call for our nation. AI industry leaders are already sounding the alarm about the dangers of AI, but when AI is used to depict violence against a sports reporter for the amusement of college-age men, it’s time to act.

The feelings of irrelevant sports reporters everywhere need to be protected.

By law.

The Need For Bi-Partisan Common-Sense Regulation

This is a call for common-sense sports reporting regulation.

While ideally we’d obviously like to simply write into law our common moral intuition that men should be banned from making fun of women on the Internet, unfortunately such protections are not currently allowed under the 14th Amendment.1 Now, scholars debate whether that’s due to our country's fundamentally Patriarchal Constitution, or whether it’s simply the illegitimate non-Democratic Supreme Court's interpretation of it, but that’s a debate for another day.

We need protective legislation NOW. Therefore, we at the Re-Founding Fathers propose a simple gender-neutral regulation that can pass the Disparate Impact Test.2

Industry leaders need to come together and agree, that before any person becomes a sports reporter, they should have to go through a common-sense licensing process in order to make sure they’re qualified for the job and can emotionally handle the opinions of the athletes they’re reporting on.

Proposed Sport-Reporting Licensing Requirement

1. Either you need to get punched in the face, repeatedly, in real life or in a professional setting,3 to prepare you for the potentiality of getting punched in an AI video online; or

2. You should have to train for at least 4 years by playing the sport you intend to report on at either the collegiate or professional level. Obviously for football that would mean you would have to actually play football before you report on it, but the same would apply for any sport. That way, theoretically, you would actually sympathize with those you’re reporting on.

If you meet either of the above two qualifications, then you will be issued a sports reporting license for a particular sport.

Now, maybe this isn’t the perfect solution, but it’s better to do something rather than do nothing and simply wait for the next AI video attack to depict a reporter who’s never played the sport being reported on getting punched in the face.

We don’t have to have all the answers, we just have to restore some sense of safety and sanity to the industry of sports reporting.