Rabbits, Blinkity: Brittney Griner Rocks

If I see one more obnoxious, anti-women, homophobic article/post/comment about Brittney Griner, I'm going to scream. Did you get pissed because Shaq was 7'1" and weighed 300 pounds? No, you didn't. You either though he was awesome because he could push people around and get those rebounds, or you didn't like him because he was beating your team, but respected his physical skills anyway.

And yes, this means you, Muffatt McGraw. Playing with Griner was not like "a guy playing with women." It was like playing a woman who is 6'8" and really good at basketball. Which, as it turns out, is remarkably like playing a person who is 6'8" and really good at basketball. (Besides, the reason ND lost so badly was that Novosel couldn't hit the broad side of a barn and Peters couldn't keep her fouls under control. Not Griner's fault anyway. But even if it was, the point still stands.) Heck, I could say the same thing about 5'9" Skylar Diggins, she kinda has "shoulders like a man," don't you think? See how ridiculous this sounds?

It's like the whole Hingis vs. Mauresmo business. Ironically enough, compared to modern players like Serena Williams or Stosur or Kvitova, Mauresmo of 1999 seems downright, well, average in terms of physicality. When "masculine" equals "good at sports," of course women who are good at sports will seem masculine. It's only going to become more true over time, and unless you're some kind of asshole who thinks women's sports are only supposed to be a mild, barely competitive diversion, this is a good thing.

Just stop already. Brittney Griner is one of the best female basketball players ever. I don't care if she did just beat your team; you've got to respect her anyway.
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Look, I'm used to trolls, okay? I've been using the Internet since Yahoo was a only a web index and not a search engine. I've even read Encyclopedia Dramatica on occasion. But I still don't understand this:

they call these s.lut.s professionals
-- boredwithnba

welcome to the PMS league..the WNBA is CRAP PY
-- saylaka2000

Now, I do understand, say, stupid tasteless comments on youtube - there are 'related video' links and 'featured videos' there to tempt you. Plus, it's an obvious enough target that you might just search for things just to be an asshole. But to make rude comments on an espn.com box score, you have to:

A: Know that the game is going on.
B: Be interested enough to check for box scores.

And you very likely care enough to actually watch the game. Which, in fact, the various "slut" commentators did, because many of them mentioned specific events from the game.
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