There are different levels of rec sport competition. Not every rec league is, or should be, a beer league.

Nah. The science is pretty much settled and in agreement on this. Nobody is saying that women haven’t gotten better generationally.

But the type of running that soccer requires — for around 6 seconds at a time as you allude to — heavily favors men. Soccer involves short fast sprints. Comparing the average body physiology of men and women doesn’t break down when you stop comparing Olympians to Olympians: it’s consistent, in general and on average,…

You realize many recreational leagues have different designated levels of competition — ranging from casual to super competitive. There’s nothing wrong with a 32-year-old Joe Schmo cubicle worker playing competitively in a rec league, provided they’re not competing in the wrong league. You’re assuming they’re in the…

Yeah, I was confused by that part too. I’ve played recreational/pickup soccer for more than a decade (and I’ve played soccer for more than two decades), and lot of those games were co-ed. Your estimation that the average woman is only better than (or equal in ability level to) maybe 20% of the guys sounds spot in, in…

? Are you calling them gay? And is that supposed to be a snarky insult?

- Getting mad at men who are “too competitive” is dumb. There’s nothing wrong with being competitive in a rec sports league, provided it’s the right type of league. Sure, there’s a chance the men are in the wrong type of league — ie, they’re playing far too competitively in a casual league. But there’s also a chance…

I mean, aren’t these things like, what, 15 years apart? Were you the same person you were 15 years ago? Trump is completely different than Bush. Trump’s “saviorism” has real purchase with a lot of people — don’t underestimate people’s willingness to look for a leader who preaches saviorism.

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nobody likes being told what to do...

I remember reading about her AT hike in what was essentially an ESPN/Boston Globe joint project. There’s a moment where she’s trying to summit Mount Katahdin and goes against the warnings of Baxter State Park rangers. That moment — seemingly small compared to this PCT clusterfuck — kind of turned me off to her…

Airplane hijacking hasn’t been white terrorists’ M.O. for a long time.

Right. I agree. But the way this photo meme is framed — as a diptych — suggests that there is a media conspiracy to have two sets of vocabularies — one for people of color and one for white people. There may be! But this photo meme doesn’t make that argument very effectively, because the photo was taken by two…

Well ACTUALLY (heh) it’s about two different photographers — two different sets of experiences and brains and work environments — filing two separate captions to two different news organizations. But when these photos are framed as a diptych it suggests wordwide illuminati media consipiracy

i was wrong

i was wrong, but i wasnt “lying”

Agreed!

Nobody fired a gun at him (or in the ground in front of him). A gun discharge didn’t happen during this protest. This is not corroborated by any other accounts — be it from protesters, counter-protesters, police, bystanders, or journalists (or videos recorded by people in these groups).

Wait, this guy says someone shot a gun into the ground in front of him? That’s not true.

I wouldn’t call that a chip.