Darnell Dockett Mocks Ines Sainz After Alleged Harassment

It has not taken long for NFL players to express their opinions on the alleged harassment of female TV reporter Ines Sainz in the New York Jets locker room on Saturday.

Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Darnell Dockett went on a long rant about the situation via twitter, saying all he can do is laugh at her.

"All I can do is LOL at the jets Female Reporter! She walks into a locker room full of men and think some one not gonna say nothing LMFAO," he said. "I don't know what was said to her or whatever but u just have to know u going into a TEAM LOCKEROOM, and if its that serious WOMEN STAY OUT!" He even tweeted a picture of the reporter, writing, "Now why would u wear this!!! IM DONE!!"

Shortly after Sainz explained the details of the incident on Tuesday morning, Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis weighed in on the matter with controversial comments for which he later apologized.

Not long after addressing the Sainz controversy, Dockett followed up with additional tweets that could be seen as partially walking back his earlier commentary. He wrote, "I respect women and ill never disrespet women, so I'm just speaking my opinon, and again its my opinon, yall have a Wonderful day PEACE!!" He later added, "I think all men should respect women at all times no matter what And women should be able to work where ever they want! That's my opinon!" Scroll down for screenshots of the tweets.

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Comments

[NSeagle78]

04:38 AM on 09/21/2010

She does not have on the proper dress and there is no way around that. You and I would not dress as such to do our jobs unless your job is, well you know.

[Smy]

11:25 AM on 09/20/2010

For the thousandth time: the reporter in question never filed a complaint or even commented about the incident prior to the media choosing another story of the day. It was ANOTHER reporter who was in the locker room when it all occurred that filed a complaint.

Aside from that blissfully ignored fact, the whole "she brought it on herself" vibe is soooo 60's.

[jd43]

11:16 PM on 09/18/2010

With Ray Lewis aging, Dockett is the meanest player in the NFL

[NYC22]

03:13 PM on 09/18/2010

He's right!

[SionShankel]

02:30 AM on 09/18/2010

She is a product of her network and show..down to the clothes she picks and who she interviews. This is all calculated to get ratings. There is a whole media machine that you can point to for these choices. And that media is wholly responsive to what its audience prefers to see.

The audience is not interested is waiting an hour for the modestly dressed woman who is a football genius to ask some questions. By then the men who are allowed in the locker room already got the interviews too.

[S Allen Prouty]

12:01 PM on 09/18/2010

I believe in your overwhelming correctness here. Every Sunday these 'women in sports' are not allowed to voice any opinion of their own. They are delegated to the sideline, a token gesture to say 'sure we have women sports casters'. Maybe if the interviewer had a real sense for X's & O's she might not be ridiculed. That isn't why they were chosen to be in front of the camera. This is no arena for an assault by women on locker room behavior, not when the real feminist issue here is how involved these women announcers are allowed to be a part of the network's 'team'.

[S Allen Prouty]

01:47 AM on 09/18/2010

I sincerely agree that a professional athlete has every right to make a conscientious statement and voice a fair opinion of a topic. Especially a topic that effects pro athletes together. If a women is going to enter a locker room completely populated with men, provocatively dressed, then she should not be surprised not only to not be taken seriously, but to be treated like a stripper around a group of physical men. That women should lose her job. She obviously doesn't know how to be appropriate when choosing what she wears as a professional.

[SmartestPersonHere]

05:51 AM on 09/18/2010

then the male players should lose their jobs as well since they didn't act professional either. Funny how you excuse the men out of your equation. Sick!

[mammon55]

12:45 PM on 09/20/2010

the difference is (in this instants only) the men get paid millions of dollars to raise tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue. She, on the other hand, is expendable because you could always find another pretty blonde to step up in front of the mic.
this is more a dollars issue than just rampant sexism, the men in this case will be right, not becasue they are men, but because they make the money for the NFL and all other sponsers
money makes the world go round

[The Ghostdog]

12:53 PM on 09/17/2010

Just did a quick search and it appears male reporters are allowed in WNBA locker rooms (which I don't think is right either).

But I have another point to raise here. I'm more disappointed in the amount of retractions from professional athletes who've voiced their opinions about this matter. It's sad that they are not allowed to speak their minds - Portis and Dockett have both backpedaled (Briggs hasn't). It's much worse to know these guys are clearly uncomfortable with the notion of being questioned while partially naked - and are not allowed to voice that concern or are forced to apologize for their views if they do voice their opinions. Would I want to be questioned by Ms. Sainz - Definitely. Would I want it to happen while in the locker room - no, nor would I want to be questioned by Inside the NFL in that instance.

[The Ghostdog]

12:40 PM on 09/17/2010

Do male reporters get to go into the ladies locker room and ask them questions while they're showering after a hard workout or adrenaline filled game?
Were male reporters allowed into WNBA locker rooms to ask them questions?

I don't think ANY reporters should be in the locker room. Period. They can wait until outside for the athletes to come out to speak to them.

[J-Bro]

01:51 PM on 09/17/2010

Actually, yes, they do and are...

BUT... I think this 'incident' is much ado about nothing, and typical of wymyn wanting men to be just like women to be 'socially acceptable' these days

[jeffmax]

10:38 AM on 09/17/2010

I don't understand how a man could graduate from college with such bad grammar. Do athletes on scholarship do any studying? The limitations of Twitter are not an excuse. How to act like a gentleman seems to be lacking from his education.

As far as to what she wearing then it would follow that if a woman dressed in a manner that roused sexual heat in a man (a knot hole in a fence suffices for some), he is justified in rape.

[SmartestPersonHere]

05:39 AM on 09/18/2010

did you just say it is ok to rape a woman because of what she is wearing? wow! just when I think your gender couldn't sink any lower, you do. You are completely worthless human being.

[SmartestPersonHere]

06:13 AM on 09/18/2010

What exactly are you saying here? I find your comment confusing.

[anigonewhite]

10:35 AM on 09/17/2010

Dress like a tramp and you get treated that way.

[Balzac]

05:12 AM on 09/17/2010

The question isn't whether or not anyone should say anything - the question is what was said?

Well, this chick is no pushover. She's probably a hot-tempered woman, being so desirable and also being a Latina. She's a slapper, judging from her demeanor and style.

[anigonewhite]

10:36 AM on 09/17/2010

She should have just let it bounce off her chest.

[Mike Sherrill]

11:34 AM on 09/17/2010

She's not a latina actually. She's from Spain.

[Balzac]

02:12 PM on 09/17/2010

If a Spanish woman is not a Latina, what does the word mean?

[Cathy Young]

08:42 PM on 09/16/2010

The question should not be what she was wearing, but rather, what they were saying. Are men really so weak that they cannot help saying something to the woman in the room. If she is ugly, they will remark on it. If she is pretty, they will remark on it. The males were in the wrong. She went in to do her job, and they could not resist saying something rude, then blaming her for being there. Men should be able to show some restraint. I'm sure men would see her naked even if she was wearing a suit of armor!

[twhiting9275]

09:32 PM on 09/16/2010

There are, in fact three questions here:
#1 - If she's a professional, what was she thinking? This is not professional attire for her job.
#2 - If she's a professional, shouldn't she have been patient and waited? I mean, really, what's THAT important that a reporter must have access to the locker room ?
#3 - What were these guys thinking? Absolutely, what they did was wrong, but then again, jocks, not so known for their smarts or 'grace'

[Badger84]

11:21 PM on 09/16/2010

Exactly.

[chiropter]

09:51 PM on 09/16/2010

Ridiculous. Wearing clothes that are designed to provoke a sexual reaction (shirt unbuttoned down to the bra, skintight jeans, dyed blond hair) into a room full of male athletes changing clothes and showering? No one is saying it's ok to grope or r a.pe her obviously, but it's ifrankly unprofessional and insulting and they responded in kind.

[SmartestPersonHere]

05:43 AM on 09/18/2010

actually the guy couple of posts above you just justified raping a woman. Blond hair? really?

[Spencer M]

05:34 PM on 09/16/2010

Our society is so hypocritical and inconsistent. Here's a link of Justin Bieber being sexually harassed at work promoting his music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcxs4-3OoOA
Teenage girls are screaming, catcalling, saying stuff like "i want you" at Justin. And you can see that they are trying to touch him without his permission. One girl throws her underwear at him. And the mothers of the these girls that are present are allowing this behavior to continue.
Where's the outrage over this? Society is allowing a young generation of girls to think it's ok to sexually harass males, but it makes a stink over catcalls in a locker room?

[J-Bro]

02:48 PM on 09/17/2010

He's a (underage) guy, the rules don't apply to the women that want him. Or the 40 yr olds that swooned over Jacob in the twilight movies when he was 16. Pervy cougars are acceptable, men having any amount of testosterone isn't. Wymyn won't be happy until all men are gelded.

[SionShankel]

02:23 AM on 09/18/2010

Men commit 90% of the sexual assaults. So when a man starts to talk like that women get tense..and men know that I enjoy pushing that button like bullies.

Men are not tense when women catcall them...there is not threat that sexual abuse could be next. They do not fear that woman or group of women..for them it rarely or never happens and is a novelty.

[Spencer M]

04:52 PM on 09/16/2010

The sports setting and corporate business setting are 2 entirely different beasts. Football players play in games where they are exposed to fans who verbally curse, harass, cat call, boo, shout out obscenities at them. These games have scantily clad cheerleaders who get catcalled by fans. Football players physically hit each other which would be assault in the regular world. Football is a game and they play. The locker room is where they unwind, rest, joke around after practice or hard games. People are trying to bring the same standards in corporate settings to the locker room. What a joke.

[twhiting9275]

09:34 PM on 09/16/2010

Not to completely excuse the meatheads, but you're absolutely right. Add to this mix the fact that jocks are pretty well known for these kinds of shenanigans, and you have a problem.

[DawnK]

03:20 PM on 09/16/2010

I'm so sick of professional athletes never behaving professional. What a bunch of lowlifes.

[twhiting9275]

03:46 PM on 09/16/2010

Yeah, forget "professional reporters" not behaving professional, right?

[DawnK]

04:20 PM on 09/16/2010

What did she do that was unprofessional? If she was catcalling the athletes then she should be banned from the sporting event or fired. It seems pretty common, however, in the sports world to forgive disgusting behavior because they can hit a ball, throw a ball, catch a ball, or put one in a basket. You cannot deny that.

[MeasleeMillion]

04:12 PM on 09/16/2010

behaving professional....... 2 way street