New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs is the early leader in the race for Male Sexist Pig of the Year award after saying this about supermodel Gisele Bundchen, the wife of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady:
“She just needs to continue to stay cute and shut up.”
After the Patriots lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl, in part because of dropped passes by their receivers, Bundchen was caught on tape saying:
“You (have) to catch the ball when you’re supposed to catch the ball. My husband cannot (bleeping) throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times.”
I was critical of her comments simply because that kind of public discord is not helpful to any team and was something her husband would never say about a teammate. But Jacobs’ “stay cute” comment is the definition of sexist and uncalled for. I am surprised he didn’t tell her to get back in the kitchen. Giants defensive lineman Osi Umenyiora took a different tack:
“I mean, that is her husband. She is supposed to stay out of things like that, but at the end of the day that is their relationship and she has the right to say whatever she wants to.”
Bundchen is apparently Public Enemy No. 1 in Boston, with people calling her “Yoko” and noting that the Pats have not won a Super Bowl since she hooked up with Brady. I get that players’ spouses will be lightning rods (see the wives of Kurt Warner and Albert Pujols), but Jacobs’ “stay cute” comment likely won Bundchen some female fans who have put up with that kind of crap their whole lives.
on Feb 8th, 2012 at 4:29 PM
I dislike her because she’s patronizing professionals on how to do their job while her career is a joke at best, if you will call being a model a profession.
However, the fans are even worse by labeling her Yoko because it’s the sexist notion that her womanly distractions have decreased her husband’s performance.
Her husband’s performance hasn’t gone for the worse — it’s just a team game and members made mistakes. Even if his performance were worse it’d be HIS fault, not hers.
on Feb 8th, 2012 at 5:37 PM
Yoko is not sexist. Nice try.
on Feb 8th, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Kyle, Lucrece isn’t saying that Yoko is sexist. He’s saying calling her Yoko was sexist. And I agree with that much of his comment because the hatred of Yoko Ono was based on both sexism and racism.
on Feb 8th, 2012 at 10:42 PM
Well then Wendy Williams is sexist bcuz she said the same thing. Be cute and stay in your lane.
on Feb 9th, 2012 at 12:08 AM
Why is it sexist?
on Feb 9th, 2012 at 12:11 AM
Robert, and why is it racist, I’m intrigued by the pretend political statements, I’ve never heard either before.
on Feb 9th, 2012 at 2:36 PM
“….but Jacobs’ “stay cute” comment likely won Bundchen some female fans who have put up with that kind of crap their whole lives.”
Yet, Jim Buzinski quotes Artie Lange’s “waaaaa” often. Interesting.
on Feb 9th, 2012 at 3:33 PM
@John That’s Cyd, not me. I had no idea who Artie Lange is.
on Feb 9th, 2012 at 10:12 PM
Jacobs must think hes a real Hero now after insulting Tom Bradys wife.
on Feb 10th, 2012 at 1:59 AM
Any way you slice it, it plays out as bad form on the lady’s part.
on Feb 10th, 2012 at 2:25 PM
Jim, oh…haha. sorry.