Someone pointed that out up thread. Was it mentioned in the documentary? I definitely noted that the gender-non-conforming dress, but then again, when you work with wildlife and tigers, I didn’t give it much thought. I guess I missed the show’s pronoun usage?

He also advised more than one person that he was planning to run away to Costa Rica for good.

I haven’t shifted anything, “as good and capable as the worst player in the league” and “as well or better than men currently playing the game” are functionally the same.

A Morality is a finishing move in Mortal Kombat, wherein one character explains to another (their defeated opponent) the perils of using violence to resolve conflicts.

Thanks for the correction, I’ll be mindful of that in the future.

I get the sense a lot of the time that people will defend behavior they actually don’t find terribly defensible (or of which they may actually disapprove), because they don’t want to “give any ground.” They’re wary of saying “this is not okay,” and then having their opponents use that as a cudgel. To be fair, I think…

You may enjoy indoor soccer then, the field is wayyyyyyyyy smaller, and you get interesting plays like people kicking the ball against a wall, and then heading the ball into the goal themselves. Much faster game overall.

100% — the discussions with people who were close to Don Baskin, his attorney, and law enforcement make it clear that these suspicions did not start with Joe Exotic.

I don’t remember the TRO making it into the show at all, though. The stuff you’re referring to is coming from other sources (the podcast, news articles about the show).

The original comment I made about a female LeBron that you seem stuck on is was a way to indictae that it would take a breakthrough, transformative player to make the jump.

He’s slightly better than Trump, and that’s it.

I’m sorry, maybe I’m not reading the statement correctly and I don’t get that this is sarcasm, but this is just not true. Circumstantial evidence is still evidence.

You’ll understand if I don’t put too much stock in your opinion—if you find the entire game of soccer to be categorically boring, you’re probably not well equipped to make nuanced comparisons between the relative degrees of entertainment provided for soccer fans when the game is played by men vs. women.

As a general proposition, I’m against holding women to a higher standard than men to for doing any given job. If a woman can literally play the game (make baskets, jump, run, steal, guard, block, etc.) as well or better than men currently playing the game, but that’s still not good enough, then you are giving men…

Okay, but you do understand that “there’s no woman even as good at basketball as the worst NBA player” and “I won’t accept a woman in the NBA unless she’s at least as good as some of the best players” are two very different statements.

I’d certainly be fine with it if female LeBron shows up tomorrow

I’d love to see a setup where the best athletes in their sport can make better money[.]

I appreciate that perspective—you sound like you understand the sport and the two teams involved. I only chimed in on women’s soccer because, despite not knowing much about the sport itself, the issue of gendered disparities in player pay have been covered enough by Jez and other sources that I’m at least familiar…

The WNBA literally cannot pay its players the same thing the NBA pays its player, because even if they spent every last cent they had on player pay, they would still not have enough money to do that.

I only really follow one sport, MMA, so I can’t speak to whether what you’re saying holds water (though I will say that women’s MMA is every bit as technically satisfying, brutal, competitive, etc., as men’s MMA).