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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 9:32 am
by nalotze
Well that escalated quickly.
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 10:43 am
by seamac77
nalotze wrote:
Well that escalated quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXE_n2q08Yw
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 11:07 pm
by i77cat
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 11:55 pm
by seamac77
I do like me a little saturday night schadenfreude.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:11 pm
by stan
seamac77 wrote:Michael Wilbon just put Marcus Williams in the Freddy Brown/Bill Buckner club. Marcus wasn't even born when they made their famous plays.
Botched tackle much, much worse than Buckner play. Light years worse. No comparison.
Tackler failed doing something he should not have been trying to do at all. Buckner misplayed a ground ball.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:37 pm
by i77cat
Jay Williams. I just heard him say, "UConn's women would make the men's tournament." There should be a limit. There isn't.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 7:58 am
by slowcat95
i77cat wrote:Jay Williams. I just heard him say, "UConn's women would make the men's tournament." There should be a limit. There isn't.
Sigh
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:37 am
by chantillycat
Jay's a smart guy. If he said something stupid, there's probably a reason.
Kinda old, but this article from SI talks about the scout team for an elite NCAA women's team:
http://on.si.com/2H9r8Xf
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:08 am
by slowcat95
ChantillyCat wrote:Jay's a smart guy. If he said something stupid, there's probably a reason.
Misogyny isn't just the playground of lesser minds. Brilliant people--men and women--are routinely guilty of trying to judge the success of women based on how close it comes to a masculine ideal. In sports, politics, and academia especially.
JWill isn't stupid, but he said a stupid, offensive thing. There's never a good reason to be offensive.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:12 am
by chantillycat
Rewording people's posts is offensive to me.
I never said he had a good reason. I said he probably had a reason.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:36 am
by i77cat
There are many reasons he may have said that. He's paid to. UConn is spectacular. Amazing team, amazing players, one of the best coaches in the history of basketball (any gender, any level). But UConn's women making the men's tournament? An analyst should know how to analyze. Or least know when to practice his shuttin' up skills.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:41 am
by Steve Rodgers
Interesting discussion. I can remember when it was modestly offensive to state that women couldn't compete with men in basketball. Now I understand that stating the opposite is offensive. Perhaps Jay didn't get the new memo.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:44 am
by wildforthecats
Steve Rodgers wrote:Interesting discussion. I can remember when it was modestly offensive to state that women couldn't compete with men in basketball. Now I understand that stating the opposite is offensive. Perhaps Jay didn't get the new memo.
I'm offended by your offensive discussion concerning offense.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:48 am
by slowcat95
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:53 am
by slowcat95
Steve Rodgers wrote:Interesting discussion. I can remember when it was modestly offensive to state that women couldn't compete with men in basketball. Now I understand that stating the opposite is offensive. Perhaps Jay didn't get the new memo.
He clearly didn't.
I think most observers are starting to realize that when you say, "hey girl, you're almost as good at a man," you're necessarily implying women are normally inferior.
There are many ways to measure success, and some ways men will generally appear better and other ways women will. Jay's comment ignored that nuance...and that was stupid. Just a dumb comment, because gender is so much more complicated than that women being good enough to be compared to men.