I am more special than ESPN's Erin Andrews and here is why

So I just got home from working the Illini game. I was working on the floor tonight, on the west side where most of the media are located. The game was on ESPN (yep, that was a game we wanted the nation to see... not!) and sideline reporter, Erin Andrews was there. When we first went to our locations Erin was sitting at one of the press tables working on some notes. My co-worker Ted came by and he gave Erin a Werthers original candy (side note about Ted, he gives everyone a Werthers candy at every event and must have stock in Werthers, and just happens to have gone to school with my Dad from elementary all the way through high school), then Ted proceeds to open his hand to me where he has both the original Werthers hard candy, and the soft/caramel chewy Werthers, and says "You are special, Jane, you get to choose which kind you want". This is why/how I am more special than Erin Andrews... okay so kind of lame, but it was a slow news day here at janofabulous.com. In case any of you are wondering Erin Andrews is pretty awesome. Not only is she ridiculously beautiful, and and a woman who knows her sports, she is very nice and pleasant. She chatted with our staff a bit, and was very gracious to the random assortment of men/boys who wanted their picture taken with her. Kudos to Erin for being a kind and intelligent sports lovin' girl.

So there is a GRRR in today's blog, and surprisingly enough it isn't the Illini basketball team's performance tonight. No, today's GRRR goes to the four men sitting the second row of A section that completely ogled Erin tonight everytime she passed by, making some very crude comments, and basically just treating her like a piece of meat. The usher sitting right in front of them said it was just rude and disgusting... granted Erin could not hear the comments but plenty of other people could. Why do some men think it is okay to completely objectify women in that way? Lord knows if other men were making those same comments about their wives, girlfriends, sisters, mothers or daughters they would be ready to "throw down". It was just completely disrespectful. So here is a challenge for my reading public out there. If you have the opportunity to influence boys or young men in any way (as a parent, teacher, friend, church or community member, whatever) please make sure that they know this kind of behavior is rude, disrespectful, and unacceptable! * steps off soap box *