Female TV news reporters out there are facing a tough, relatively new phenomenon.
More than their print brethren, they’re facing disgusting taunts on public streets.
We’re not talking the garden variety middle finger behind the head or some crackpot waving like a jackass as he walks behind the correspondent doing a live shot.
These modern taunts are sexual — and jarring.
Among the growing taunts described in a story by TheWrap: “F–k her right in the pu–y.”
LA reporter Gina Silva, who works for Fox 11, had the “FHRIHP” line yelled at her during a live shot in March, 2015.
“Let me tell you it’s a horrible feeling,” she wrote in a first-person account. “A guy I’ve never met, the one in the photo above, was suddenly invading my space yelling obscenities. Quite mysogynistic. I don’t know exactly what kind of man thinks it’s ok to do that to any woman. Would they like it if was done to their sister, daughter, wife or mother?”
Then-Daily Caller reporter Michelle Fields had to deal with a version of the phenomenon when she covered an Occupy rally in D.C. in 2012 and a protester infamously called her the C-word.
But a search of Daily Caller stories alone turned up the strangest variety of ways in which reporters doing live shots are rudely interrupted. There was that time when two lions mating interrupted a broadcast, a drunken woman, and antagonistic Turkish military. In 2014, a Pennsylvania sports anchor had his live shot interrupted by a loser in a black cowboy hat and Batman T-shirt.
Thankfully the reporter punched him.
Horrifyingly, telling a female journalist to fuck her right in her vagina is becoming an all too common refrain in California, reports TheWrap.
Whatever happened to the more innocent “Bababooey?”
The problem is directly mostly toward females, says the report.
But men get their share of street harassment too.
Take MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who had a rock thrown at his head in Ferguson (yeah, we know, shutting up someone that insufferable is sorta understandable, but no, of course The Mirror doesn’t condone violence. Future suggestions: a water balloon, silly string or perhaps, an egg.)
And FNC’s Geraldo Rivera was told to get out Baltimore when he covered the recent riots. He nearly came to blows with a protester who got in his face. “You’re making a fool of yourself!” he told the guy.
In TheWrap, Elisa Lees Munoz of The International Media Association blames the “misogyny” and “extreme sexism” that she says exists in our society. She says calls “FHRIHP” a “gender-based act” intended to stop women from doing their jobs.
Hey readers, what are we missing? If you know of a reporter who has been taunted during a live shot or if it has happened to you, tell us about it. We don’t care what your gender is but certainly let us know if you are male or female. Write The Mirror at Betsy@DailyCaller.com.