This article was meant to be one thing: clickbait. There was no mention of the statement made by the USMNT months ago and no mention of the ongoing legal matter preventing the USMNT players from commenting on the situation. Anything that goes against the narrative of the blog is probably going to be deleted like this…

Any comment that doesn’t jive with the narrative of the blog will be deleted. There is no tolerance for calling out bad journalism if it means disagreeing with the author of the article.

Absolutely. But such logic cannot possibly be why these players refused comment to Deadspin. No, of course not :-/

i mean it’s not unreasonable to suggest this post didnt live up to journalistic standards

“financial reports from U.S. Soccer show that the USWNT had higher profits than the USMNT in 2017 and 2018.”

I will grant that as far a relative skill goes, the USWNT is ahead of the mens team. However, if they were to play each other, the men would crush them. To give you some perspective, the USWNT lost to the FC Dallas U15 boys team 5-2.

I’d argue that posting the lack of responses (which is also lacking in some context) in the manner the author did is a rather passive-aggressive criticism.

Then I’m not sure what difference you’re seeing. But I’d guess a lot of it comes from the writers having changed over and the approved commenters staying the same. Essentially the people who approved them are gone, the new writers aren’t a perfect match, and no one new is getting approved so the approved aren’t really…

If my employer was being sued and a reporter asked me to comment on the thing the lawsuit was about I’d probably avoid talking about it too.

There have not been ZERO studies - there have been a couple small studies (here’s one) that found that vaping worsened indoor air quality, specifically by increasing the concentration of nicotine and other compounds that are known to contribute to heart/lung disease and cancer. Here’s a longer article with more…

You’re completely wrong, every job I’ve held has required a drug testing for their employees.  This included banks, and financial companies, all very much white collar.

I would generally agree with you EXCEPT for shit that’s clearly illegal and extremely dangerous, like smoking before age 18. Now if some older seniors wanted to vape in the bathroom, yeah, ok, I don’t love it but it’s technically legal ... except for the secondhand smoke issue that would clearly affect minors. Smoking…

So...it’s wrong to do take measures to stop kids from vaping.

I reminded him that sex is a contact sport, and both parties should be involved unless otherwise directed.

Yep exactly. Sites and cultures that exist withing Tumblr, Twitter and here on Jezebel did everyone a disservice by creating “Trigger” warnings. You made people think it okay to shut themselves off and not deal with shit.

I’m going to play devil’s advocate on this one. I agree totally the school handled this incorrectly—some of the quotes above are super cringe-y (the “blame is on them”?? Good lord).

Friendship oak died on the way back to its home forest!

...how is it that a journalist, someone who’s job it is to communicate in English, fucks up so hard in interpreting a quote?

“The whole point of having a diverse group of people with diverse thoughts and opinions and interests and areas of expertise, though, is that you don’t end up with a bunch of turgid, boring white-guy articles that gesture at being sharp and provocative and spark discussion in narrow and predictable ways.”

I wasn’t being patronizing, but I’m glad you were able to be so easily offended by an argument. It’s easy to rally against something that seems critical of women, but you seem to miss that I was being critical of the article, because it is doing an injustice to women by being hyperbolic and making incorrect…