Why Can’t Hollywood Get Female Journalists Right?

By: Marin Cogan | New York Magazine

A few months ago, I was sitting at a hotel in Huntington Beach, California, typing notes on my laptop, when two teenagers came up to me and started asking me questions. What was I doing there? They wanted to know. I told them I was visiting on a work assignment for ESPN The Magazine; I was there to interview a football player for a profile I was writing.

“What did you do with him?” one of them asked. Before I could answer, the other one did for me: “She had sex with him!” he said, cracking himself up.