Doubt it. If it was white kids from Oberlin being bitten by attack dogs, it would have been all over the news. It changes the calculus when a story will actually get mainstream attention, which is why it’s so important that mainstream venues like Jezebel are covering it.

The dogs and pepper spraying happened via a private security company, not the local police.

It’s complex, but yes. There definitely have been concerns over water quality and part of the protest action is about defending the tribe’s rights to clean water (something many feel will be threatened by the pipeline). But the other side of it, practically speaking, was the concern over the sacred sites. The tribe…

If you’re comfortable in old tshirts and shorts, you do you! I do that some days too. But...

Yeah and some women are selfish and demanding and treat others poorly while planning their weddings. That doesn’t mean “bridezilla” ISN’T largely a lazy, misogynistic stereotype that we should avoid evoking.

Why do we have to go all mommywars on this? Can’t women just exist in comfortable clothes? Like, moms are often running after young kids and pressed for time. Athleisure = less time getting ready but you still look cute, and it’s easier to chase after kiddos in leggings.

I’m sure this will get cleared up in the nearish future as medical suspension stuff gets addressed, but according to Conor post-fight and John Kavanagh on Helwani’s show, Conor hurt his shin throwing those low kicks (which makes sense), and the fracture in his foot was an injury that he’d had pre-fight.

I realize that MMA looks brutally dangerous to casual observers who don’t have more than a gut-level grasp on what’s going on, but risk of head trauma is actually lower than you’d think. Though bloodier, an MMA fighter is at a much reduced risk for concussion compared to a boxer (about half as likely to have been…

Diaz didn’t get robbed, yo. I could see it coming to a draw (10-8 for round 3 is a fair score), but 1, 2, and 4 were McGregor’s rounds. People seem to be quibbling about round 2, but go back and watch it. That was a close, fucking awesome fight, and nobody should be mad at Conor’s W. One thing’s for sure: neither of…

I feel like I have had this conversation with the people I was watching the fight with, strangers watching the fight in the same place, and people I was texting, and NONE OF US CAN FIGURE IT OUT. Nobody has better ideas, but his mouth wasn’t bleeding? I think the veneer explanation is the best stab at an answer so…

I had that realization too! There are just *so many* standout female athletes this year. Like you, there were a number of female athletes and teams I knew going in I was going to pay close attention to (gymnastics, Claressa Shields, Katie Ledecky), but I’m also finding myself drawn in by track and field sports I don’t…

Also I feel like we should have figured out by now that judging people’s responses to traumatic events according to how they “should” respond is ridiculous. People have wildly variant responses to sudden traumatic things! That is fine and normal!

This is the main thing that I can’t get my head around in that interpretation of events. I was jumped while with a group of six people one time and we sure as shit had a few conflicting ideas about how it all happened, despite the fact that we weren’t impaired. Sometimes a stressful thing happens quickly and leaves…

God, I wish I’d watched it live. Literally every detail makes it better and better.

That’s absolutely true too. You can see it in a lot of the men’s bouts this year — some guys used to fighting in headgear are still leading with the head. It’s been kind of an interesting case study on the maladaptive quirks that headgear teaches you. Headgear also obstructs your vision, which is not great for a sport…

Wired ran a pretty good article about it. Does a good job of capturing the nuance/stuff we’re not sure about (e.g. turns out subconcussive impacts might play a big role in CTE, and headgear isn’t necessarily useless there). The fact that it’s just women wearing headgear, though, makes me roll my eyes.

Yeah, and I think she’s also been politically active and involved for a long time. I came into the comments to see if others were bugged by the tone, too.

I would also include Rebecca Andrade’s very bold purple hued lip color choice in the list of great makeup choices these games (this pic isn’t great but it was the best I could find):

I found this blog post that captures the errors — I had never noticed the foot separation thing before. Plus I guess her feet weren’t perfect in the air? I think the idea of calling the minuscule movement of her feet at the end a hop worthy of deduction is insane though...but IANA gymnastics judge.

Re: Maroney — I don’t remember, what was the reason for the deduction? I just remember the commentators going THOSE JUDGES ARE SO WRONG, OH MY GOD.