I’ve had a pretty stable writing staff for the last ten years. We haven’t had a ton of turnover. At least for one of these shows it’s actually one of the lowest turnovers.

I think she gets off a little too easy. Nobody seems to invoke white boy girl privilege. Any white boy doing this and the calls of white male privilege, male entitlement, rape culture etc. would not stop simply cuz he was just 14 years old back then and the road to redemption on social media would be a lot longer for…

...and if the girl in question had been 15, your answer would have been ‘It’s older than 15'. In other words, if you sympathize with that person you will always find ways to rationalize almost any behavior, otherwise it’s *fuck hat guy*.

What’s the age limit for racism then? Were you can shrug it off and just say, well, I was young and dumb...

I’m counting seven women among the 15 top billed actors. This one is probably more gender diverse than the new Ghostbusters movie.

Don’t you think that gay actors would lose many jobs if only straight actors played straight roles and gay actors had to play gay characters only? There will never be a balance between straight and gay characters in movies and tv, b/c in the real world only about 5 to 10 % of all people identify as gay. It’s simple…

Of course there’s nothing wrong with that! Did I say otherwise? I feel like I should conclude every such comment with a clarifying *not that there is anything wrong with it*, for people who have difficulties differentiating between criticism and a mere observation.

Lol, call me a sceptic, but I don’t think that hurdling picture is real. It’s more like a photoshop dream come true. Hurdling over the first hurdle would have make her crash right into the second one, in high heels! no less.

The opposite is true with ESPN’s decision. If the similarity between baseball and softball (‘softball is baseball for girls’) is in fact a stereotype, then the people at ESPN fell for it by hiring Mendoza under the pretense that a softball player is basically a female baseball player and thus knows baseball.

Those two are not analysts, they are the play-by-play guys. In the NFL booth, Buck is the play-by-play guy, Troy Aikman is the analyst. Big difference.

You’ve missed the point completely, but I guess you’ve just needed to rant. The whole point of the article was to prove, that softball ISN’T like baseball, only for girls! If that claim was true, then hiring a softball player to analyze baseball games wouldn’t have made much sense. You tried to prove to me, that…

List a few analysts in professional sports who didn’t play or coach on the highest level of said sport (football, baseball, hockey, soccer, basketball...). I can’t think of anyone.

Oh great. So revenge porn laws should not apply to women exclusively, only to men, since you think leaking this sex tape was such a great idea?

To my knowledge, there are no female NFL football analysts cuz there is no pool of former female NFL players/coaches to hire from.

Announcers are usually journalists, analysts are always former players/coaches.

You mean other than two teams trying to carry/pass a ball into an end zone or kicking it between two uprights?

“The sport—often stereotyped as baseball, but for girls”

Where do you get Mirage? Her real name is Maraj. Who said anything about the quality of her music? Isn’t that the whole point, that Calvin Harris is the most successful DJ in the world (full disclosure - I don’t care a bit about EDM), yet he gets chided for his stage name. How petty is that? Oh, whatever!

Did she also go by the last name Minaj instead of Maraj since childhood days? Oh I forgot, the porn name. So the woman who has both butt and breast implants, sprays cream on her boobs in videos and is known for her raunchy lyrics (and why not) would be too virtuous to go with a porn-y name like Maraj but Nicki Minaj…

So why not go with Onika Maraj? That definitely doesn’t sound like a porn name. It also sounds less American than *Nicki* Minaj.