Cleveland Browns reporter Mary Kay Cabot responds to Shedeur Sanders’ brother Shilo Sanders’ “go make a sandwich” comment

Take the high road. That’s what’s left for the female NFL reporters now. As if we weren’t already past the Dianna Russini situation, another reputed NFL reporter has been targeted by a sexist/misogynistic/bullying and dismissive internet comment.When Cleveland Browns reporter Mary Kay Cabot vouched for Deshaun Watson as the Browns’ QB1 and not Shedeur Sanders, someone in the Sanders family took it very personally.Shedeur Sanders’ older brother, Shilo Sanders, reacted to Mary Kay Cabot’ QB1 choice, commenting, “Go make a sandwich, Mary.”According to Dictionary.com, “Make me a sandwich” is a straightforward expression with malicious intent, chiefly used by male internet users or gamers to express their “unhappiness” with female participation in online communities.The phrase is profusely offensive to women and is employed to make them feel “unwelcome.” It references the stereotype that women belong only in “domestic spaces, such as the kitchen.”To this comment, Mary Kay Cabot had a deafening response. In her recent appearance on 92.3 The Fan, when she was asked, “How do you respond to a family member taking issue with your report and throwing out insults like that?”Mary Kay Cabot said, “Well, let me just say about that that I really do believe that I have been an inspiration for lots of women and young girls to know that you can go out there and do a good job in a man’s world. And you know, take on all of that that comes with that.And I know that there are so many women who have joined the football world, especially because of some of the things that I’ve been able to do over the years, and I’m happy about that, and I know that will continue.And now, we’ve got women in flag football playing flag football all over the place. And I’m just happy that I have been able to help set the tone and open some doors in that way. And I know that that will continue. And that’s just how I feel about that.”“Mary Kay taking the high road! Absolutely terrific answer,” declared the radio host, Anthony Lima.Mary Kay Cabot focused on her influence and probably chose to ignore the misogynistic comment from someone who had already been ejected from an NFL game for failing to control his anger.Taking the high road matters because it shapes the conversation. No matter how many glass ceilings women shatter or awards they win, some men still prefer to picture them relegated to the kitchen.When women who don’t conform to these domestic roles are treated as outsiders or aliens, every tired, sexist remark adds fuel to the fire. Even by 2050, these comments will likely persist.Men are rarely told to “make a sandwich,” and when women point out the double standard, they are often painted as petty. Long story short: taking the high road is key. It isn’t just about politeness; it’s about refusing to let others define the narrative."And this is to Mary Kay, if you're gonna be a reporter, be a reporter and report facts," Shilo Sanders said. "Whenever you have your opinion, and your opinion is always something hateful to Shedeur [Sanders], then it makes it seem like it's something weird, like it's an agenda that you have going on.There's plenty of women in this field that take this serious and take reporting football serious and actually do homework and study the game and get the statistics right and get the news right.But with you, it's so much emotion that I don't want you to make women look bad when it comes to reporting because you don't have the will to actually want to report real things that are going on. So it don't even make sense.You want to go talk about this and that. In minicamp, they don't even have all the receivers. Are you to going to say, 'Oh, this is what I think is going to happen.' We don't care what you think is going to happen.Let Shedeur go practice. He don't need to be going on Instagram and Twitter and stuff and always saying you just bad mouth him. That's what I got a problem with; you know what I'm saying, if it's reporting it's reporting you have facts you have news but when it comes to your opinion you've been saying crazy things for the past since he's been there."So it's like just chill with that because it don't make no sense and it makes you look crazy like you don't know what you're talking about.""I think it's awesome," Todd Monken said at his recent appearance on 92.3 The Fan. "It's why we get paid so much. We get paid so much because fans care, and you talk about it. If it wasn't talked about, I sure as hell wouldn't get paid what I get paid. So, that's part of what we do.But if that's going to bother me or it's going to bother Shedeur [Sanders] or Deshaun [Watson], they have no chance of being either the head coach here or the quarterback of the Cleveland Browns. It's the world we live in."