June 10, 2007
"I'd Do Her" Journalism in Poker
Patti Beadles has been a Net citizen for at least a decade and a half, so she is much more practiced at dealing with this sort of thing than, say, Alison Stokke.
But the fact that she has the right stuff to handle it is still no excuse for the sort of coverage Aaron Hendrix is providing at PokerPages.com of the Ladies' World Champion No-Limit Hold'em Event at the World Series of Poker:
My future wife #2Sunday, 10th of June 2007 01:45 PM
(Aaron Hendrix reporting)I'm sorry Shannon (who is playing by the way), but I have to break up with you. I've always wanted a woman with neon pink hair. If I got a strobe light it would be like psychedelic man.
That's a little less tacky than saying, "I'd hit that," but not by much.
Poker still has a Boy's Club atmosphere — check out the user icons on the 2+2 forums — but when you're representing poker to the world, you really shouldn't put that face forward, especially when covering the women's tournament.[1] Aaron Hendrix loses extra style points for threatening in public to dump his girlfriend for someone hotter (as Lynn Kendall just pointed out to me while I was talking this post out with her).
[1] Of course, the very concept of a segregated "Ladies" tournament is deeply problematic, but it's been a tradition of the WSOP almost from the beginning.
(via Keith Fichtmaier posting in Patti's LiveJournal)
Posted by abostick at June 10, 2007 10:06 PMYes, yes, yes, and yes.
Posted by: Debbie at June 10, 2007 10:46 PMI didn't see it that way at all. I just read it as an amusing way of saying, "Hey, check out this hair."
BTW, Shannon isn't his girlfriend. Shannon is Shannon Elizabeth, who I believe is an actress or some sort of celebrity... or so I'm told. My guess is that he jokingly proposed to her in a blog at some point.
Posted by: Patti at June 12, 2007 02:30 PMPatti is correct... I was just being tongue in cheek because I thought her hair stood out and thought it was worth mentioning... and Shannon is Shannon Elizabeth who I had jokingly been referring to as my future wife #1 the entire previous week.
Sometimes humor is lost or misunderstood, so no hard feelings on my part - but I can assure you that the intent of my post was not what you interpreted it to be.
Posted by: Aaron Hendrix at June 15, 2007 02:42 AM
