Of course, she also dated Rodgers when the team was winning all its games earlier in the season and last season when Rodgers was NFL MVP. So how could she be jinxing him? Does being married to Gisele Bundchen jinx Tom Brady?
Didn't Dallas fans say the same thing about Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson? It seems like there's a real misogynist strain through all this. "Waah, my pretend football boyfriend is failing. It must be that skank he's fucking!"
Also, "I believe God has taken His hand off of the Packers players." Really? "And you never ask questions
When God’s on your side"
Shel and Cmdr, I keep meaning to mention to you, I have new neighbors down the street, and they've got Packers decorations in front of their house – a Packers garden flag on a little wrought iron stand, and they painted a pumpkin to look like a Packer's helmet. The wife is from Wisconsin, the husband is from here, I think he said she 's from Milwaukee. I'll ask again, not sure.
Oh, yeah, our parents sign a document in blood upon our birth swearing we will be Packer fans for life or the hospitals in Wisconsin will rehome you to suitable parents. Tough but fair. Also too, we are encouraged to make our life partners convert to The One Faith. Mixed marriages can be so difficult for the children.
Vince Lombardi, 1960s. Except he never jumped off the bandwagon after Lombardi left and it crashed into a cliff. He stuck through the really terrible teams in the 70's and 80's and now they've been good for like 20 years since that.
Ah, I admire his stick-to-it-iveness. And I'm thinking the old Boston Patriots were none too good back then.
Sounds like Milwaukee Packers fans. When I lived there, there was a house a few blocks away that a huge, 20-foot high inflatable Packers players. I drove by it every day on my way to work and it would always be in various stages of deflation. It must have had a slow leak. (I had nothing to do with it, I swear.) But hell if they were going to get rid of it and get a new one. They would just reinflate it every weekend.
Something about it being sexist to hire someone certain people viewed as a sex symbol. Not sure I'd go with "Olivia Munn doing comedy on the Daily Show" as my go-to sexism in television rant. Or my second. Or one-thousandth.
that's my problem with the Jezebelians- often they have decent stuff to say, but sometimes they manage to embrace and wallow in every stupid stereotype of feminism under the sun. The "you're a man so you can't possibly understand anything because you're a dumb brute with a penis" schtick gets a bit old, as does cattiness like this- it's one thing to decry the shallowness of hiring people solely for their looks, but when it devolves to 'attack anyone prettier than you' baseless whining it's gone too far. Seriously? TDS, a bastion of superficial cheesecake titillation? BTW, what do they think of Jessica Williams, or is she OK as person of color, so she's a box they get to check off on their PC run amok list?
It wasn't about that (Munn is a WOC, too), and they never had a problem with Williams. I think they, like pretty much everyone else on the internet, objected to Munn because she had no comedy background and her only previous experience was, at that point, being very literal eye candy on Attack of the Show on G4. Munn has gone on to prove she's more than a pretty face, but back then she really hadn't. And it was most definitely not just Jezebel that was dubious about her — her hiring by TDS was universally panned, and perhaps rightly since she lasted less than a year.
They seem to love Jessica Williams. To be fair, I like her too, but that doesn't stop me from liking both. There's so many really sexist, bad situations in television and comedy that I have a really hard time finding attacking a show that has about a 40% female staff and has many, many moments exposing sexism in our society as something being remotely productive. Admittedly 50-50 would be better but right now 40% is probably above average.
Honestly, Jezebel was probably going for click-bait on that one more than reality, which is sad because they could have brought attention to a cause worth some attention but chose to attack a show that does a good job instead.
Well I mean they had auditions, and while looks probably help some, she had to have shown something funny in there to get herself hired in the first place. She was literally eye candy on a show before but I'd say she was certainly qualified to get the job. It just feels like an attempt to be angry at something without knowing much about it. Also being on for less than a year wasn't rare at all on the Daily Show, so I'm not sure that shows she was bad.
It was a time when TDS was being actively called out for having a nearly all-male writing staff*, and then they went and hired Munn, who was primarily known for being the pretty girl talking about boners on a video game show. Was Jez, along with a lot of other sites on the internet, unfair to her? Probably. Does only Jezebel get called out about it because women are required to always be nice? Yes. Is it completely out of context five years later? Absolutely.
* and don't kid yourself, being called out for it is the only reason TDS has more women staff, and most of them still aren't writers.
Jezebel got called out on it here because they not only did it back then, but they did it just three months ago as well. They started their Jon Stewart Daily Show send-off by linking to that five-year-old article. That's a huge reason Jezebel is going to get more shit about it than other places right about now. If you're going to double down on an article five years later you deserve to be called out, especially when it's something like "hey, let's blame her for something stupid instead of taking the rational approach!"
*note that there were literally 30 women on the Daily Show staff in 2010 when this happened.The article in question happened after they hired two more women as writers so you can't really credit Jezebel for that.
Olivia Munn to sportswriters: "Fuck you, and check yourself": https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp…
I love her even more now. You marry that woman, Aaron. You marry her!
Logic, how does it work again?
I know, I know–for some fans, not at all…
/FFS
Didn't Dallas fans say the same thing about Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson? It seems like there's a real misogynist strain through all this. "Waah, my pretend football boyfriend is failing. It must be that skank he's fucking!"
Also, "I believe God has taken His hand off of the Packers players." Really? "And you never ask questions
When God’s on your side"
Isn't putting your hand on a player pass interference?
Jokes on them, Tony broke up with Jessica long ago and he still sucks
Do you know who else was mad at Olivia Munn for stupid reasons?
Um, one of the other characters on "Scandal"? Wait, that'd be Olivia Pope.
Shel and Cmdr, I keep meaning to mention to you, I have new neighbors down the street, and they've got Packers decorations in front of their house – a Packers garden flag on a little wrought iron stand, and they painted a pumpkin to look like a Packer's helmet. The wife is from Wisconsin, the husband is from here, I think he said she 's from Milwaukee. I'll ask again, not sure.
Oh, yeah, our parents sign a document in blood upon our birth swearing we will be Packer fans for life or the hospitals in Wisconsin will rehome you to suitable parents. Tough but fair. Also too, we are encouraged to make our life partners convert to The One Faith. Mixed marriages can be so difficult for the children.
Well they are very nice people so it seems to be a sound policy.
My dad became a Packers fan when living in Rhode Island so I was never told about this blood thing.
I was born into it, so I'm not sure what converts have to go through — a ritual bath, memorizing Run to Daylight — it's all very mysterious.
I'm curious about this. Do you know how and when he became a Packers fan?
Vince Lombardi, 1960s. Except he never jumped off the bandwagon after Lombardi left and it crashed into a cliff. He stuck through the really terrible teams in the 70's and 80's and now they've been good for like 20 years since that.
Ah, I admire his stick-to-it-iveness. And I'm thinking the old Boston Patriots were none too good back then.
Sounds like Milwaukee Packers fans. When I lived there, there was a house a few blocks away that a huge, 20-foot high inflatable Packers players. I drove by it every day on my way to work and it would always be in various stages of deflation. It must have had a slow leak. (I had nothing to do with it, I swear.) But hell if they were going to get rid of it and get a new one. They would just reinflate it every weekend.
Also, no Packers mailbox? Slackers.
I think they might have a packers mailbox cover. I'll have to look the next time I go by.
The correct answer would oddly be Jezebel, where they got really mad when she was hired on the Daily Show.
why?
Something about it being sexist to hire someone certain people viewed as a sex symbol. Not sure I'd go with "Olivia Munn doing comedy on the Daily Show" as my go-to sexism in television rant. Or my second. Or one-thousandth.
that's my problem with the Jezebelians- often they have decent stuff to say, but sometimes they manage to embrace and wallow in every stupid stereotype of feminism under the sun. The "you're a man so you can't possibly understand anything because you're a dumb brute with a penis" schtick gets a bit old, as does cattiness like this- it's one thing to decry the shallowness of hiring people solely for their looks, but when it devolves to 'attack anyone prettier than you' baseless whining it's gone too far. Seriously? TDS, a bastion of superficial cheesecake titillation? BTW, what do they think of Jessica Williams, or is she OK as person of color, so she's a box they get to check off on their PC run amok list?
It wasn't about that (Munn is a WOC, too), and they never had a problem with Williams. I think they, like pretty much everyone else on the internet, objected to Munn because she had no comedy background and her only previous experience was, at that point, being very literal eye candy on Attack of the Show on G4. Munn has gone on to prove she's more than a pretty face, but back then she really hadn't. And it was most definitely not just Jezebel that was dubious about her — her hiring by TDS was universally panned, and perhaps rightly since she lasted less than a year.
They seem to love Jessica Williams. To be fair, I like her too, but that doesn't stop me from liking both. There's so many really sexist, bad situations in television and comedy that I have a really hard time finding attacking a show that has about a 40% female staff and has many, many moments exposing sexism in our society as something being remotely productive. Admittedly 50-50 would be better but right now 40% is probably above average.
Honestly, Jezebel was probably going for click-bait on that one more than reality, which is sad because they could have brought attention to a cause worth some attention but chose to attack a show that does a good job instead.
I agree– sometimes my rolling eyes get stuck in the back of my head from reading too many Jezzie comments.
Well I mean they had auditions, and while looks probably help some, she had to have shown something funny in there to get herself hired in the first place. She was literally eye candy on a show before but I'd say she was certainly qualified to get the job. It just feels like an attempt to be angry at something without knowing much about it. Also being on for less than a year wasn't rare at all on the Daily Show, so I'm not sure that shows she was bad.
It was a time when TDS was being actively called out for having a nearly all-male writing staff*, and then they went and hired Munn, who was primarily known for being the pretty girl talking about boners on a video game show. Was Jez, along with a lot of other sites on the internet, unfair to her? Probably. Does only Jezebel get called out about it because women are required to always be nice? Yes. Is it completely out of context five years later? Absolutely.
* and don't kid yourself, being called out for it is the only reason TDS has more women staff, and most of them still aren't writers.
Jezebel got called out on it here because they not only did it back then, but they did it just three months ago as well. They started their Jon Stewart Daily Show send-off by linking to that five-year-old article. That's a huge reason Jezebel is going to get more shit about it than other places right about now. If you're going to double down on an article five years later you deserve to be called out, especially when it's something like "hey, let's blame her for something stupid instead of taking the rational approach!"
*note that there were literally 30 women on the Daily Show staff in 2010 when this happened.The article in question happened after they hired two more women as writers so you can't really credit Jezebel for that.