Foxy, if you think it is a storm in a teacup then you should simply move on. There is no need to tell us that is what you are doing or why – just do it. There is no need to presume to speak for ‘we’ – everyone else can make up their own mind without your help.

If you think issues of justice are simply storms in teacups then it does not say much about your values. It is not the question of the amount of money he was fined but the principle that an organisation like the cricket administrators can punish someone on the basis of some kind of outrage rather than on the basis of having done something that is illegal or wrong or against some contrived code of conduct. It is up to them to show good reason why he was fined.

It is also up to the media to treat him fairly and to show why they think he should be dealt with harshly. The media are too quick to condemn people without cause and our society is dragged down by such disregard for fair treatment.

The two people may have moved on but it is not simply about them it is about how authorities and the media punish people without fair hearing

Foxy, the whole reaction is not about this one event.
It is about the way in which such events get pumped up into nationwide
controversies. Everyone rushing around saying "Dreadful behaviour"
"an affront to women" etc etc.
It is just not when women are involved, it applies to politicians just as much.
It is however much fiercer if women are involved.
It seems to have only come about in the last five or ten years.
It is strongly related to political correctness.

Oh come on Phanto, you don't honestly think that Gayle was a bright boy when he tried to chat up the journalist who was asking perfectly reasonable questions and not flirting with him in any way? He was being an idiot.

If the journalist was a male interviewing a female basketball star on national TV, and the female said "Hey there big boy, I have been wanting to see your pecs up close, how about we hook up later baby?", you can bet your bottom dollar she would be flayed alive by the rest of the media, and all the usual good ol' boys, and called a slut at the very least.

I don't think he was that bad though Bazz, so it isn't 'everyone' who is upset about the incident at all. It was just a slow news day.

“Oh come on Phanto, you don't honestly think that Gayle was a bright boy when he tried to chat up the journalist who was asking perfectly reasonable questions and not flirting with him in any way? He was being an idiot.”

Maybe he was trying to get publicity for himself in which case he would seem quite smart.

Do you think he should have been fined 10 grand? Do you think such judgements should depend on the amount of outrage or should they depend on whether or not he has broken some law of the land or the sport and what might that law be?

“If the journalist was a male interviewing a female basketball star on national TV, and the female said "Hey there big boy, I have been wanting to see your pecs up close, how about we hook up later baby?", you can bet your bottom dollar she would be flayed alive by the rest of the media, and all the usual good ol' boys, and called a slut at the very least.”

So that makes it ok? It’s all about an eye for an eye then?

The sun tanned Chris Gayle could give up cricket and join the Misogynist Party, aka Liberal Party, if they would have him, and that's questionable. Then Gayle could do a Jamie Briggs, which is the right of every member of the born to rule party, harass women, and others from the lesser servant class.