I understand the distinction you’re making and I agree that it’s more commonly used the way you’re using it. But I don’t think that makes the other usage wrong.

I don’t see how any of that is treating her like a hero. They’re just happy she’s home because they felt like her imprisonment was unfair. I really don’t get why you have such a bone to pick with her. Did you lose a bet on one of her teams or something? It’s weird.

lol, you don’t think she’s avidly reading the comments here? I’m not really invested, was just more curious if after all of this, that had actually been settled. Now, I’m gonna go back to staring in awe at that fabulous jacket.

Seems like you need to read your own comments again. You used the word “hero” in your very first response, before anyone had replied to you. You directly asserted that Jezebel was treating her as a hero.

Bro... If the law is unjust, then imprisoning anyone for violating it is necessarily unjust. You can’t separate one from the other. Moreover, Griner’s imprisonment was especially unjust because of the length of the sentence she was given. That satisfies your hairsplitting “manner” criterion. 

It seems like being willing to fuck and have children with Elon Musk automatically makes you an unfit parent.

How about giving your kid a name instead of a practical joke.

Plus her recklessness resulted in the US having to release a black-market arms dealer responsible for thousands of deaths and mayhem around the world. She’s no hero; she’s a fuck-up who had to get bailed out by the US diplomatic crew. 

The thing is, she is naturally a slim person. She could gain 15 pounds and still be thin, and still be in the “normal BMI” category. That is the thing about this whole Ozempic trend happening. These people are already thin by any objective measure! Why the insistence on being very very thin? Because you’re right, if…

Honest question, cause I can’t find an answer, but the link you gave with her admission of guilt was from while she was still detained. Do you know if she has admitted to the possession since her release? From what I understand, the first thing that she was advised by counsel was to admit guilt, whether she was guilty…

You are way out of your league here. Dude.

Yes, though, I agree Ms. Feather Boa up there seems utterly foul.

THIS. Listen, do I think she was a political pawn? Yup. Did Putin salivate at the thought of putting a black, gay, woman ball player from the USA behind bars for a really long time? I’m sure he did. And that itself is not fair.

Does this make any of these people heroic?

But “wrongfully imprisoned” is not the same thing as “imprisoned because of an unjust law”.

Yeah, Don’t gamble your chance on entering a nation with strict drug laws.

...I’ve never liked Griner much for other reasons.

There was also defending Art Briles: “If somebody around and they ever say, ‘I will never send my daughter to Baylor,’ you knock them right in the face. “

There was also defending Art Briles: “If somebody around and they ever say, ‘I will never send my daughter to Baylor,’ you knock them right in the face. “

The article didn’t say wrongfully imprisoned it said political prisoner. Which is unimpeachable because they actually traded her in a political deal. So...