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Originally Posted by Table 5
Plenty of mediocre men use whatever leverage they can to get their foot in the door too. Old-boys connections, gender, looks, celebrity… people use whatever edge they have ( I mean how else did Glenn Healy ever get/keep a job?). I guess we can pretend that Cassie was hired on purely merit and that media execs were really eager to champion someone with a wooden personality and zero on-air charisma…or we can acknowledge the primary reason she got the gig at a time when the CBC/NHL were looking to diversify their on-air team, and there was little other competition. I don’t begrudge her for it, good for Cassie for taking advantage of the opportunity…she pivoted it into an almost two-decade career, while opening the doors for others to follow.
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It’s just a weird, weasely thing to throw out there based solely on the fact that she’s a woman, which doesn’t just erase any of the merit-based reasons they might have had for hiring her, but also the non-merit ones (she’s an olympic-medal winning hockey player, after all).
Did being a woman help? Probably. Was it the primary reason she got hired over anyone else? Nah, you’d be stupid to think so.