Yeah, I really, really hate dogma, even when I agree with most of the underlying philosophy of the dogma. I’m not here to play devil’s advocate for misogyny and racism and shit, that’s not what I mean. I just mean that I immediately get my hackles up whenever it feels like someone is telling me to drop any sort of…

I 100 percent grant that women know more about this shit than I do. But the person I listen to most is my wife (a feminist woman of color, for what that’s worth in this conversation), and her responses to the MeToo stuff differs depending on the situation. For example, she thought that the Anzari stuff was overblown,…

Yeah, I suppose that’s fair. The post-apology anger at Bateman does, to me, feel disproportionate. But also, people are allowed to be angry at what they want to be angry at.

I’ve become more and more frustrated with ally policing. Not because I can’t take it, or because I’m going to join men’s rights activists or something because I get my feelings hurt by feminists or whatever. But mostly because: 1) I think it’s really ineffective; 2) I have a lot of respect for women and members of…

Yeah, and that’s ... also wrong.

All that is fair. But I’m sorry, if someone reads my comment and thinks I’m “gaslighting,” there’s nothing I can do about that. Everyone can decide for themselves whether they want to watch these dudes’ work. But if we’re going to start re-interpreting “this apology sounds sincere to me” as “I support/minimize abuse,”…

I honestly feel like the bar for some people is, “If you’re a man, and you make a mistake, you’re excommunicated.”

I’m not sure I can forgive the Celtics for not fouling the absolute shit out of Nance on the possession right after he shoved Morris and somehow got rewarded for it.

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But bro. Bro. Bro. Just listen to what I’m saying. Just listen.

I would like for women’s basketball to be really successful, but I would also like to never have to watch it. (I don’t, like, go out of my way to make fun of the WNBA publicly though, because I’m not a dick.)

God he fucking sucks. I’m a Boston fan, and Simmons is the walking embodiment of why none of you will believe that doesn’t mean I’m not a huge fucking douchebag.

So this whole time, the Incognito/Marting bullying story was just about two lunatics texting each other a lot ...

Yeah, I’m interpreting “dunked” as “jumped and got the ball over and through the hoop with downward force under one’s own jumping power on a 10-foot rim, in any context, with no regard to traveling or other rules of the game” unless otherwise specified.

“This is something of personal importance to me, and I don’t want to talk about it. That’s why I made a cave-man drawing about it on national television.”

Yeah, it was only a couple of years ago. I’m a Hawkeye fan, but I’m deliberately not calling him out by name because he was a good guy (if an occasional eye-poker), and he’s toiling around the D-league for peanuts, and although he can’t jump over a line on the sidewalk, I don’t feel right making fun of a dude who’s…

You know what, now that I think about it, there’s a 7'1" guy who played for Iowa who had really short arms, and could only just barely stuff the ball. He wasn’t even fat. So there’s precedent.

Counterpoint: He’s totally dunked.

Is it possible you have a data point wrong? The average six-footer has a standing reach of around eight feet. If you’re jumping another three feet in their air, you’re dunking two-handed with ease.

Honest question: Do QBs really “go for it” on the verticle jumps at the Combine? Doesn’t seem like the skill has much to do w/ their position.