Oh, please. If they hadn’t referred to her ethnicity, this same site would be screaming about how her blackness was overlooked. Seriously, come on...
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Weird, my TV was full of all those women AND Phelps for a good week. The gymnastics coverage was predominately the women. And it was fine.
Wow...insulting much? I don’t even know if my cat is black, white, or purple. I don’t see color, unlike SOME people
What a coward.
I love the smell of hockey gear in the morning...
Ellie...Very important question. While you were at the expo, did anyone gift you a monkey’s paw? Perhaps in your gift bag next to some chia pudding?
This sounds familiar...
Instead of the death penalty, people like this should be cryogenically frozen until a future society can cure them.
That is insane. Who doesn’t finish their pizza crust?
Yep! You’re actually the first person to get that in however many years I’ve had this account. Well done.
io9 just needs more science. The actual science is that nuclear weapons do not cause a significant lasting effect outside their immediate blast range is well established. Even very powerful thermonuclear bombs have a have a lasting effect range less than a few miles. Within that ‘hot zone’ there are particles that are…
It is a stupid look to appease a very backward and violent religion better suited for a period 700 years ago.
Oh and by the way none of these women would have qualified for the Olympics. “All four women received wild card entries in which qualifying marks were waived.” So they are participating only because they are muslim. Seems fair.
That’s the problem. Millions of Muslim women cannot live how they want. Instead of respecting a culture that treats women like chattle we should be speaking out in opposition to it.
Fuck that 7th century culture, it deserves no respect.
Bullshit. I don’t have to respect a culture that demeans other humans and treats them as chattel. GTFO with that shit.
that’s autism for ya
yeah. who the hell wears socks in the house?
Well... Quakery you say?