Dear Gossips,
The only conversation I want to continue about The Fight is about the coverage. And specifically the two prominent female journalists who’d been critical of Floyd Mayweather and were not initially issued credentials. Several journalists, in fact, were allegedly banned by Team Mayweather because they called him out for his pattern of domestic abuse.
Michelle Beadle was then subsequently attacked on social media for… speaking up? This is a woman who has a voice and is willing to use it to remind us that we’ve glorified a man who has repeatedly abused women, a man who once compared women to cars:
“Even though you can’t drive ten cars at one time, you got people that got ten cars. So, you’re able to keep maintenance on ten cars. So, I feel that as far as it comes to females, that same thing should apply. If you’re able to take care of 20, then you should have 20.”
Mayweather reportedly made as much as $180 million on Saturday night. And Michelle Beadle isn’t allowed to shake a fist at the sky. Click here for the background on the story. It’s 2015. And it’s still so easy to silence a woman.
A hard turn now…
MET Gala tonight! We take it very seriously here, as seriously as a major award show. So it’ll be an all-nighter. Join us if you’re staying up late! And send us your comments – bitch away, judge away, and, by all means, please… YELL.
Yours in gossip,
Lainey
