Johan Derksen continues to stand up for men who misbehave. This time he aims his arrows at Marijn de Vries, who had to deal with Danny Nelissen’s dirty talk. “Come on!”
Marijn de Vries was structurally harassed during her summer at De Avondetappe with the dirty talk of colleague Danny Nelissen. At one point he also started spouting rancid things about her, for example that she needed ‘a good fuck’. She rang the bell at the top. The result? He stayed on, she disappeared from the scene.
Courageous Mary
Precisely because bigwigs at organizations such as NOS Sport only take action after pressure from outside, it is valuable that Marijn has dared to write about her experiences at De Avondetappe by name. She has also been so gallant not to play it on the man and not to mention Danny’s name.
Nevertheless, Marijn’s column could inevitably be traced back to Danny. Annoying for him, but in the end it is of course about a higher goal: creating a safer working environment. For the time being, Marijn’s contribution appears to be extremely relevant, because her piece has caused quite a stir.
‘That girl’
Johan Derksen is critical, however. A week and a half after Marijn’s column, he speaks negatively about her. “That girl, that cyclist, she should have just said to that Nelissen: ‘Wow, I’m not waiting for those f*ck stories from you'”, he says in the Inside today from last night.
Marijn has pointed this out countless times, without intervening. Johan: “Yes, but in those days if you went to a boss with stories like that, he would say: ‘Don’t worry.’ Such was the era. Now every boss takes this extremely seriously. In fact, you get fired.”
Handy stories
VI bar guest Merel Ek supports Marijn. “I think we all think that what happened to her is not normal. Also that he said to other people: ‘She needs a good fuck.’”
Johan dismisses Danny’s dirty talk as ‘cocky stories’. “If Nelissen likes to tell cocky stories about who he has fucked and if she says: ‘I’m not waiting for that’, and he still does it, then I would say: I’m not going with Nelissen anymore sit in the car.”
And that is what Marijn also said. She was then, with pain and effort, placed in another car by the editor-in-chief during the evening stage rides through France.
‘Isn’t right somewhere’
Although he cannot give any valid reason to undermine Marijn’s story, Johan still seems to have trouble with her. “With that girl De Vries, I think it’s not right somewhere,” he says.
“Now she comes back to it six years later and immediately after writing the column in which she hangs someone, she has an excuse of: ‘Yes, but I didn’t mention his name.’ Then I think: yes, come on! You immediately knew who it was.”
Wrong joke
Finally, Johan also says that he supports Jack van Gelder, who, during his time at NOS Sport, ensured that a woman – he called her a ‘ho*r’ – did not go to the European Football Championship.
Johan: “A hundred years ago he yelled ‘ho*r’ at a woman. Not good to talk. Then he made a bad joke of: “Come and sit in the bath with me.” We could all do that too. Wrong jokes are always the best jokes. That man actually did nothing wrong at all.”