With a team that is currently at 2-9 for the season, being a New York Jets fan is painful already. If you are a female fan of the J-E-T-S you get the added humiliation of being sexually harassed at halftime.

...on Sunday, several hundred men lined one of Giants Stadium’s two pedestrian ramps at Gate D. Three deep in some areas, they whistled and jumped up and down. Then they began an obscenity-laced chant, demanding that the few women in the gathering expose their breasts.

David Picker - New York Times

I find this infuriating. As a female sportsfans don't we go through enough already? I've known since I was a little girl I would never play in the NFL or NBA, and now I can expect a chant of "Show us your tits" if I want to use the ladies room at halftime?

While I can honestly say that I have been to many sporting events in several different stadiums around the country, and I have never run across this sort of behavior, it seems like this is a New York Jets tradition. It is called a Gate D party.

Erin from The Queen of Spain even found proof on You Tube:

Huffington Post contributor Leora Tanenbaum says, “I hate to sound like a broken record, but the sexual double standard is alive and well. Boys will be boys, and girls will be sluts. And across the land, people continue to believe that this is the way it’s supposed to be.” Tanenbaum drew attention and questioned the behavior while commentors asked for proof.

Let’s watch some YouTube, shall we???

As the NYT reports, this whole Gate D party is a tradition at Jets homegames....Some women comply. Some women walk away clothed and get heckled. Some women are spit on. Some women have bottles thrown at them. Some women are groped. More importantly hundreds of men think this is ok.

I think Erin has a great point. Why do that many men think that this is a reasonable thing to do? How would these guys feel if it was their mother?Or sister? Or daughter?

Suzanne from CUSS had a great comeback to David Picker and the "man" he quoted in his article:

I read your quotes in the New York Times article . The article details how hundreds of men line up on the ramps outside Gate D during halftime at Jets game to shout obscenities at the women forced to pass by you. It seems that you have a fucked notion that you have the right to chant at these women, "Show us your tits." It also seems that if a woman does not comply, you find it appropriate to spit at her and hurtle plastic bottles at her head.

Patrick, you happily boasted to the Times that harassing women at the stadium "is the game." After one woman refused to reveal her breasts, Marco, you told the Times reporter that you were "very disappointed." I am glad that both of you are so honest and think harassment is so much fun. Since you like games so much, I promise that I am going to play one with both of you. If I find either of you, I am going to send you thousands of emails demanding that you show me your balls. If you don't, I am going to throw virtual bottles at your heads because I am "very disappointed."

There is another great post on this up at Shakesville.

Thanks for the lead on this one, Suzanne.

Contributing Editor Sarah also blogs at Sarah and the Goon Squad and Draft Day Suit.