Ex-ESPN Reporter Ed Werder Cries the Whitest Male Tears Over Sports Illustrated Job Posting

Ex-ESPN reporter Ed Werder is a white man. As both a sports reporter and a white man, Werder, and all those like him, make up some 90 percent of sports journalism, so when Sports Illustrated tweeted out that they had a spot for an entry-level news writer position, SI senior writer Charlotte Wilder saw this…

Ex-ESPN reporter Ed Werder is a white man. As both a sports reporter and a white man, Werder, and all those like him, make up some 90 percent of sports journalism, so when Sports Illustrated tweeted out that they had a spot for an entry-level news writer position, SI senior writer Charlotte Wilder saw this as a golden moment to push for women as applicants.

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โ€œIf you can stand sitting near me in the office this is a v cool opportunity. Especially if youโ€™re a woman trying to get into sports, you should message meโ€”DMs are open,โ€ Wilder tweeted, TMZ Sports reports.

Somehow, Werder got his knickers (I assume that Werder wears knickers, but admittedly, I donโ€™t know this as a fact) all in a bunch.

โ€œSo men need not apply? Any others ineligible?โ€ Werder tweeted with tears staining his whiteness.

Wilder responded, โ€œOh WOW youโ€™re right, Ed, sorry for attempting to make sports media more than 10% female, my bad,โ€ as TMZ Sports reports.

Werder replied: โ€œI just always associated SI with hiring the best regardless of race, sex and other factors.โ€

Someone asked Werder why he was so white-man upset, considering that white men dominate sports journalism. Werder responded, according to TMZ:

Because next week, Iโ€™m going to be standing in front of a broadcasting class of young people and some will be males and I have to tell them they have the same chance at jobs like those one as all others.

One of Werderโ€™s former colleagues, Mina Kimesโ€”a senior writer at ESPN the Magazineโ€”stepped in to explain to Werder the obvious point he kept missing.

โ€œEncouraging women to apply for a position isnโ€™t the same thing as โ€˜excludingโ€™ men,โ€ Kimes tweeted. โ€œItโ€™s helping female applicants network, which can be a challenge given the massive gender imbalance in our industry (which Iโ€™m sure you know exists).โ€

Werder didnโ€™t respond, and something tells me itโ€™s not because he actually got the point.

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