I got the concept. I just found it absurd, considering the de facto celebrity-actress profile (particularly when it appears in a male-facing magazine like Esquire, ironically enough) is heavily negotiated to ensure favorable coverage, and is usually fawning in the extreme. It's an entire, well-known genre.

Two points: she's not going to earn a salary regardless, so it's not clear how we call this "professional" football.

Weekender kickball leagues (or their equivalent) are the only option for 99.99+% of the adult population when it comes to football.

I know of multiple professional football leagues that pay good-to-obscene money and don't explicitly exclude women. I know of none that are for women-only, alas.

Any reason she couldn't qualify for one of the multiple pro leagues to feature regular uniforms and take on anyone who can meet the performance standards?

Billy Bob Thornton?! What was his last film that did anything? "Bad Santa" in 2003?

To my mind, it always matters if someone is an asshole. We may opt to overlook it because she creates so much net good, or is so entertaining or artistically important, or whatever. One might even argue that the standards for being an asshole vary too much by sex to be reliable.

Checking in a) in favor of massive overkill to deal with hecklers, should the comic choose; and b) against passive acceptance of hecklers, followed by passive-aggressive tweeting about heckling incident.

I can't believe anyone is naive enough to offer a nickel that the casino would kick out someone for cursing a dealer.... that might be the worst bet offer of all time.

Um, so the premise is that the journalist sneakily pre-planned a hatchet job... then stupidly tipped her hand to Jones sometime before the initial handshake?

It's a plausible interpretation. Two points argue for a different reading though:

The bitches were bitches because I was pretty." - January Jones, on life in high school

If you go on a job interview and can't be bothered to display a flicker of charm or interest, you ain't getting no job.

If legal consequences deterred members of Chicago street gangs, the crime stats on the South Side would be a hell of a lot lower.

Who the hell chose this pic? An all-star (sic) panel from 4Chan?

Yeah, the picture needs to be changed for a lot of reasons — some demographic but most to do w/human-decency norms.

I've never seen a reputable peer-reviewed survey on schizophrenia that found women are disproportionately affected.

No excuses. Taking shots at Doug is like working from the spot against a one-legged keeper.

Lyrics deserve a substantial measure of love — as does the late Eighties-era Susannah Hoffs...

Gotcha - though I'm not sure we can all agree which "leg(s) up" constitute a meaningful amount of random privilege — as opposed to a great genetic endowment, say.