Shaun White is 31 and in his fourth Olympics and he got a 98.50 in qualifications last night, so...

I think maybe what they were going for, in part, and missed getting across, is that it’s easy to denounce someone you don’t like, and much harder to denounce someone you do like — or did like. This is only exacerbated when the person is someone who you’d thought was ideologically close to you, or someone who is part…

Agreed! I also hope they put Jamie Dantzscher on the board. She was one of the earliest gymnasits to speak out against the Karolyis and then about sexual abuse.

Once she retires from competitions, they should put her on the board of USAG - there needs to be someone there to keep people accountable and actually watch out for the athletes. Not to mention, she’s shown tremendous courage and leadership both during this trial and as team captain for Team USA. She’s amazing <3

On the one hand, I can absolutely see this point. Most coaches can’t even answer post-game questions about the game with any but the most meaningless cliches. Why should we expect them to actually have an opinion on something important?

On the other hand he is arguably one of the most visible members of the MSU…

I’m still trying to figure out exactly what you think Simon did wrong? She suspended Nassar and opened a Title IX investigation. What else was she supposed to do with the information she had?

He surely wasn’t intending to deal with that issue. He had no time to prepare an answer, and ... I can pretty much guarantee Tom Izzo has given exactly 4 seconds of his time to anything not related to Michigan State basketball, for good or bad, and probably has no idea the total magnitude of this issue, again, for bad…

I liked the original because it punched up, at power structures. Marginalized groups were shown to have more depth than those that controlled the social scene in the movie.

By just writing it off as “he’s an inhuman monster,” instead of examining how he got away with it for so long, what factors (other people, lack of oversight, power, whatever) enabled it to continue, and what could have been done to recognize and stop it sooner, we are collectively failing to do whatever is possible to…

I think it’s neat how, even though Weinstein has been exposed as a disgusting, manipulative rapist, somehow people are still finding a way to blame his crimes on random women who happened to work adjacent to him over the past thirty years.

The whole Republican Party has gone anti-semantic. I mean, Trump is two years into an all-out assault on meaning itself.

It’s amazing that people still use the I have x friend excuse non ironically.

I don’t have children, but my mother almost died having me, back in the early 80s. It was actually the nurses who noticed something was wrong and got a different doctor involved. Apparently, my mother had uterine fibroids that caused lots of bleeding after birth. She almost bled to death.

When my daughter played soccer with YMCA (probably 9 or 10) I will readily admit I was too vocal. I was trying to be encouraging “Get in there, get in there, kick that ball. Run, run.” Later I realized that was not encouraging.

The revelation that Gabby was abused completely recontextualizes her comments from Friday.

Challenging your country to do better is the best possible form of patriotism, expressing blind loyalty to a cliche is not.

Your country is like your family: you can love it, and still be disappointed in it from time and time, and want it to be better.

Fuuuuuck yes. And that hand on the shoulder is something, too. Not as good as a kneel, but it’s a start. I hope this spreads, and spreads, and spreads.

ScarJo and Emma also get most of the Asian roles. (Munn is half Chinese, if you didn’t know.)

Another option would be to spring for a babysitter and tickets to Bounce Land or Chuck E Cheese for all the kids, and guilt her into accepting the gift. She’ll know it’ll make her look like a total asshole if she still brings her kids to the wedding (thereby refusing a nice gesture), and it will make the letter writer…