KenTremendous said:
Good gravy. It's not "waving the victim flag" to tweet out the fact that they are being treated badly. They weren't "woe is me"ing. They were calling bullshit -- which it was entirely appropriate to do, given the bullshit -- and they also then turned around and remarked that the organizations had handled it well post facto. Their restraint, all things considered, was admirable. If I were denied entry, to the place my employer required me to go, because I was a woman, by a misogynistic old turd who thought the sight of men grabassing would be too much for my delicate feminine sensibility to handle, I'd scream until glass shattered and then go full Keith Moon on whatever room I was in.
The problem with being aggrieved parties, like women in sports media, is that you have two choices: just grit your teeth and deal with it, or raise your voice and have people call you victims and whiners and complainers. Gritting teeth didn't work for the first like 100 years, so now they're getting tough, as they should, and when they do they are greeted with a bunch of people calling them victims and microaggressors and psycho bitches. Which, again, is nonsense. They were treated badly, so we should all say "That sucks that they were treated badly."
And again, it doesn't matter that the guy was old. It would be worse if he were young, but old age does not absolve you of the responsibility to treat people fairly. And if he is so old that he can't understand the basic rules of fairness and propriety, the team should have shuffled him into retirement already.
A couple of things on the bolded. First of all, they didn't just point out that they were being treated badly. In her first, she said that she "just about lost it." It wasn't just about being treated unfairly, she absolutely portrayed herself as a victim and does not strike me as being "restrained."
And I would take exception to your statement about being old. Perhaps the guy was treating people as fairly as he could at that moment. It's like when an old person looks at a young-ish looking coach or ballplayer and says, "Do you have any identification?" We laugh when Brad Stevens gets carded at a NBA game. It's not age discrimination.
And in the pre-twitter age, it would have been nothing more than a short discussion on the way out of the building. The only reason it's a story is because they had an ability to post something on a public forum in the two or three minutes they were detained.