Put some respect on Kealia Ohai's name
Ohai is engaged to J.J Watt of the Houston Texans. Watt is a perfectly fine defensive end with many accolades, although he was drafted 11th while Ohai was drafted second. Not that it’s a competition! Except it is a competition. Ohai and Watt have both worked extremely hard to get to where they are in their respective careers and have both suffered for their sport .
But when J.J Watt coughs, there’s a camera crew there to film it and highlight it on ESPN. Should the cough get serious, there is a billion-dollar industry falling over itself to ensure that the financial investment that is J.J Watt is healthy. Kealia Ohai, on the other hand, is traded from a team she’s been on for five years, and it gets buried under a tweet about who she’s dating.
Because of his name and the sport he plays, it’s obvious why Watt would be evoked; the man generates clicks. But the issue here is not merely that ABC13 didn’t respect Ohai enough to highlight her career. It’s also that women in sports are not afforded equal media access to build cachet behind their names. Reporters are not falling over themselves to get the exclusive quote on how Ohai feels about this trade to a statistically better team where she stands a considerable chance of being a champion. I didn’t even hear about this trade on ESPN, a channel I watch nearly every morning. There is an enormous gap in who gets to be important and grand and who has to hustle in the shadows, and it is almost exclusively gender-based.
women athletes deserve to be called by their names in all instances. Not J.J. Watt’s fiance. Not Servando Carrasco’s wife. Not Zach Ertz’s wife. Kealia Ohai, Alex Morgan Carrasco, and Julie Ertz are giving so much more to the world than just a body attached to a male athlete. They have skills and names all their own. More importantly, they’re human beings who are destroying and rebuilding their bodies week in and week out at the same rate as their male counterparts for barely half the pay.
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