Which is why we keep telling Vrai to boot you from this forum...This is what happens when you give people with asinine opinions a platform.
Which is why we keep telling Vrai to boot you from this forum...
Griner’s plight is especially acute because she’s a Black queer woman being held by authorities in a country that is hostile toward LGBTQ people. Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, has made a show of embracing “traditional values” that he claims the West has rejected. Last year, he signed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. In 2013, the country passed a “gay propaganda” law that banned distributing information on LGBTQ issues and relationships to minors. (Of course, elected officials in some U.S. states also approve measures targeting gay and transgender people.)
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Russia wouldn’t be a tantalizing option for America’s best women’s basketball players if they could earn more at home and be treated with the same professional respect as NBA players. It is damning that teams in oppressive countries such as Russia and China—another opportune marketplace for women’s basketball players—place a higher value on players such as Griner than the teams in her own country do.
“If the U.S. gave women’s basketball the respect it deserves, the WNBA star might not be in legal jeopardy,” Hill wrote earlier this year.
So it’s Hill’s expert take that if Americans paid women in the WNBA more money, they wouldn’t have to play in countries that are even more repressive against LGBTQ people than the United States is. It America’s fault she was taken prisoner.
So 1 of 2 possible things are happening here. BG is so ignorant that she put her physical well being in jeopardy by choosing the play in a supposedly queer unfriendly country while being an Amazonian sized lesbian. Or the claims of Russia being hostile towards gays are false.Griner’s plight is especially acute because she’s a Black queer woman being held by authorities in a country that is hostile toward LGBTQ people. Russia’s leader,
If all the gals are at the game, who's gonna make the sandwiches?Men's professional sports are heavily attended by men. So ladies get off your butts and support women's professional sports. Its that simple.
Can't expect much better from ESPN.Watching ESPN for a bit last night, you would think that Griner's worth to society was on the level of that of Mother Teresa.