The media just lurrvvves criticizing the thug nature of today's athlete. Book after book has been written about how sporting culture breeds athletes with a sense of "above the law" entitlement.
So, somebody tell me why this story isn't being blasted nationwide?!?
Dang, that was a WWE-style hair pull. Can someone tell me why that was any worse than this?!?
I'm just sayin'.
Question: Is thuggery thuggery, or is it different when it's women beating up women, vs men beating up men?
Sunday, November 8, 2009
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I say it probably has to do more with Race than Gender. If you had two white guys beating on each other it probably wouldn’t get the same attention as black men fighting. It’s this type of mentally where Mr. Limbaugh got his famous comment "NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons"
In another question how come thugess in red wasn’t ejected after the first infraction? They must let you get away with a lot in woman’s soccer. The hair pull was a classic case of assault I’m surprised the police didn’t come on field and place her in cuffs.
I don't think thuggery is any different whether it is men or women. When I was in junior high and high school, I hated, I mean absolutely hated, gym class. It wasn't just because I'm uncoordinated and was teased unmercifully, but girls can be down right mean physically: nail scratches, hair pulling, physically pushing and tripping, you name it. I can't see how the girl in the video got away with knocking the other player over by pulling her hair.
Thankfully, I'm all grown up now and get my exercise by running and their is no violence or harassment involved. Today, in fact, it is absolutely beautiful here with sunny blue skies, temps in the 70s and a light breeze and this morning's run was delightful.
She did get a serious indefinite suspension. So if she is a senior, she is through. But it has nothing really to do with race, but rather with the sport. I know that half of us (including myself) do not care for women's soccer. Plus soccer seriously is a dangerous sport. You can get away with that if it is a sport where rarely many people do not watch, whereas LaGarrett Blount punched the guy where millions of people watch. That is if LaGarrett Blount punch that guy and they were playing water polo. Come on, it is water polo. That would have gotten less attention than that soccer girl yanking her hair.
And out of all that, she got a card for yelling. And a YELLOW card for that matter. The yanking is a Red card by default but they never saw it.
@ Molly:
My mother always says she thinks women fighting each other is ten times as grotesque as men fighting. Part of that is probably our society being used to thinking of that as "unladylike", but that's becoming increasingly anachronistic.
I work at a paper---this week we reported an old woman in the neighborhood getting beaten and robbed by three teen GIRL thugs. I'd hardly ever heard of anything like that and expressed surprise, but everyone in the office just turned to me and patronizingly asked "Where have YOU been?"
lmao!
"B-B-But it's in the heat of battle!"
The hair pull was cold-blooded.
It was also funny.
I think it might not have received much attention due to the fact that it was womens soccer. However there was another case several years ago of an Ohio State football player, Robert Reynolds who choked another player Jim Sorgi who played for the Wisconsin Badger.
During a 2003 football game between the two teams Quarterback Jim Sorgi ran for eight yards and was tackled by 8 Ohio State player.As Sorgi was laying on his back Robert Reynolds of Ohio State walked up Sorgi and chocked him so hard he crushed his vocal cords, he could no longer speak and he had to leave the game because of the injury. This Reynolds guy gets suspended one lousy game for chocking a player and it hardly got any press compared to this LeGarrette Blount issue. You can watch the incident on youtube by searching for the name of both players. When I see such hypocrisy it becomes difficult for me to see and admit what Blount did was wrong(even though it was)when something equally as bad if not worse happened and nobody said much.
This story is starting to grow legs. I saw it three times today alone. It just took some time to catch on because women's soccer isn't on many radars.
I'd be curious to know how this tape came about. I've seen probably six or eight different infractions by this player, all with a direct camera shot and all out of sight of the officials. I am wondering if some enterprising soul just had enough of her, trained the camera on her for a whole game, edited the highlights together and let the blogosphere do its work.
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