So, much like I said a couple weeks back that you'd be hearing about the "Kony 2012" campaign and needed to question its legitimacy and reasoning behind it, so to with this story.
Over the next week or so you will likely be hearing and seeing a lot (if you follow sports) about one Ms. Brittney Griner from the Baylor women's basketball team. She is promoted by ESPN and all the other suck up sporting media outlets as a wonderful example of a woman exceeding at a level only men usually play at. "Look!!" they'll say, "She can dunk, she can run, she can block shots! She has a size 17 man's shoe!!"
Yup...all true. And they'll talk about what a great person she is and how smart she is and how beautiful she is...And they'll all gloss over the thing she should be best known for (well, almost)
Brittney Griner as a Freshman at Baylor punched and broke the nose of a Texas Tech player during a game because she was actually being played by someone who was as physical with her as she was with them. Griner is a classic bully. Grew up big and dominated other women because of her size and couldn't take it when matched up against someone who wasn't intimidated. Griner was suspended for two games, her coach was suspended for one game and her face and actions were plastered all over ESPN and everywhere else to show what was wrong with the current state of sportsmanship.
Now (per the same ESPN and other media outlets) she's the current savior of women's sports in America--yeah right....
Oh, and we haven't even gotten into whether Griner even belongs playing "women's" sports...that's being guarded and hidden as well as any story. Much better than the fraud that is Caster Semenya...but...similar nonetheless...
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