Flutterby™! : Just because

Gawker: Just because you don't like a study doesn't mean it is wrong:

I would like to point out that nowhere in the paper do we assert that *All women watch sports to be with their husbands," Whiteside told me. "As you mention, feminist blogs have been critiquing the study, (and I would, too, based on what they think the findings say) but it is based in feminist theory and very much thinking about gender roles and the production of gendered subjectivities through everyday interactions (including watching sports) in the home. What we do say is that many of the women we talked to said they love watching sports because of the teams they favor, but *also like watching sports because it is a time to connect with their families. We expand on this point in the paper."

On the media reaction to Whiteside and Hardin, Women (Not) Watching Women: Leisure Time, Television, and Implications for Televised Coverage of Women's Sports. Via MeFi.

I'd like to see a follow-up tracking down the press release from which articles like the LA Times article are re-written.