I have nothing against Queenie personally, given she does a remarkable job for someone who is 90 years old and no one can deny that they are an extremely photogenic family. However, at the risk of seeming churlish (although I am British and that’s all we do), it’s worth reminding everyone that it is an actual…

Dude she was a worldwide top-10 player and championship doubles player who’s career was derailed at age 21, well before her prime. She was better at tennis, by a substantial degree, than any of us have ever been at anything.

Yeah, I've never understood why he tennis abilities are contantly made fun of. She was in the top 10 for several years. She never won a slam in singles, but won a bunch in doubles with Hingis. She obvious was no Serena Williams but she was very very good.

Not sure what you mean by ‘play’, but she reached a no. 8 singles ranking and was no. 1 doubles player with hingis for quite some time

Uh, as a gross/sad teenage boy at the time, so do I (sorry) but she did play tennis.. she was a top ten ranked singles player and won a couple of doubles titles and won titles as a junior as well.

I had someone point out to me, for what it’s worth, that she and Martina Hingis were a quite good doubles team.

#NotAllVegans

Does it honestly not bother you that Bernie supporters are sending death threats to a woman who, as far as I can tell, was just doing her job? I get wanting to have positive coverage of your preferred candidate, but any coverage of the event that leaves out the booing and death threats is still pretty slanted - it’s…

I mean, you fuck one goat and they call you a goat fucker.

If there is a heaven I want to hear the finale of Mahler 2 all the way there!

Ummm, she’s in classical heaven. SHOSTAKOVICH ALL FARKING DAY. And Mahler at night. BAM.

“Slapping the bass” is kind of a disrespectful way of describing her career. Women have fought like hell to be taken seriously and get into symphony orchestras as regular, ensemble players, in a world where all-male ensembles have been a centuries-old tradition (only a few left now, thankfully). It’s an incredibly…

I love that this story is on Jez. I was performing on stage with her on Sunday. I didn’t know her personally, but by all reports she was an awesome woman and will be dearly missed.

She has had professional help on and off for ages. I assume the long periods of time where we don’t hear about her problems are the times when it is working as far as symptom management.

Jesus Christ this is a condescending post. Sinead O’Conner has had 20 years of professional help. For many people mental illness is a life sentence. So your assertion that “it works” is both a lie and a slap in the face to people who aren’t going to ever permanently recover.

But I thought in America you had a right to bare arms...

I’ll show myself out...

I get what you mean. And you’re right. The question has never been whether a z/e/f is alive... of course it is. The cells are respiring, dividing, doing the stuff living cells do. But that doesn’t *mean* anything. They’re just doing what a scadzillion other cells on the planet can do, from archaebateria to human…

Well it’s not unusual. It’s the fundamental reason for most.

I think part of the reaction is in how you view ‘alive’, which to me comes with an idea of autonomy or self determination. An embryo is an insensate lump of matter, dependent on a host for life support. It is about as alive as a tumor in that it has blood flow and can grow. It has the potential to be so much more, but…

Sperm and ova, before meeting, are also unequivocally alive by your definition. Do you hold some kind of mourning ceremony every time you masturbate (male) or have a period (female)?