About 90 percent of sports editors are men, and 90 percent are white. The Women’s Media Center’s 2015 report on “The Status of Women in the U.S. Media” showed that just 10.2 percent of sports coverage in 2014 was produced by women.

We can stop excusing a kind of manhood that belittles wom-en, bringing us down to the level of objects — objects that can be treated with not only scorn, but with actual violence.