Everyone hates Brett Favre these days, and no doubt he’s brought some of it upon himself. But we’ve reached the piling-on stage, with seemingly everyone ready to believe two massage therapists who allege Favre harassed them, despite obvious red flags.
Two massage therapists are suing Brett Favre, saying they lost their part-time jobs with the New York Jets after complaining about sexually suggestive text messages from the veteran NFL quarterback.
Claiming they were subjected to sexual harassment and job discrimination, Christina Scavo and Shannon O’Toole are seeking unspecified damages from Favre, the Jets and a Jets massage coordinator.
While the women didn’t say they received any messages directly from Favre, he referred to Scavo in a message proposing a meeting with her and a third, unidentified massage therapist, Monday’s lawsuit says.
“Kinda lonely tonight,” he added in a subsequent message to the third masseuse, the lawsuit said. “I guess I have bad intentions.”
Sounds like obnoxious flirting to me, and if complaining about it actually did cost them their jobs, why wait more than two years to file suit?
Meanwhile, I’m watching some bleached blond pop psychologist on cable news diagnose Favre with “socially reinforced narcissism,” a disorder shared by almost anyone who ever played high school football, let alone 297 consecutive NFL games.
I suspect he’s guilty of being an entitled rogue, but again, what do we expect from a pro athlete? If the massage therapists are indeed telling the truth, the liability lies with the Jets, not with Favre. Let’s not trivialize sexual harassment by accepting every dubious charge at face value.
Christian Boone 
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