BowmanvilleBob wrote:

Women in broadcasting (indeed anywhere in the public sphere) have always had to endure sexist and misogynistic comments from insecure people regarding their looks. In my time, it was limited to phone calls from morons who'd hang up when we'd ask for their names and numbers. With social media, the volume and frequency of this kind of sh*t increased tenfold. Good for Ms. Horton for clapping back against this idiot and let's hope more women in the media follow her example.

There was another one a few years back involving one of Global BC’s meteorologists who was pregnant at the time. In Kristi Gordon’s case, it was a series of hateful/misogynistic messages she received that she addressed on-air.

I recall another similar situation in the US as well several years ago, I think in one of the Midwest states. In that case a viewer complained that the anchor was “setting a bad example” with her weight or something completely ridiculous like that.