Much more at the link.
I just hope they don't make this issue all political. We need our Sundays to be an escape.
Looks like Snyder could use a "fixer". I wonder if anyone in Washington could hook him up. On a more serious note how does something like this stay quiet for 5 years? Cheerleaders don't make a Hell of a lot of money. Wouldn't it be easy for some of them to walk away from it?
Been feeling this way for at least 3 years now but yeah I can't wait for the fall of the NFL
I'm sure our president will get right on this.
You know, if the rightists really were boycotting the NFL over Kapernick, as opposed to just saying they were, I might have to take a harder look at myself. Actually people are getting used and abused, and I keep right on watching.
I keep saying that as soon as the Patriots start sucking (like when Belichick and Brady retire), I'm going to be done with the NFL (I know, it's a principled stance that I'm taking). But this might be it for me. Between this, CTEs, the constant melodrama of every little thing that happens in the offseason ("Holy shit you guys, Tom Brady said, he'd take the fifth! WTF??"), the constant rule changes, the excruciating long games, the bullshit on-field reviews, the owners being out-and-out greedy assholes, the Kapernick situation and the weekly military pandering; I don't know why I waste the few perfectly decent Sundays in the fall watching the Pats. Maybe I won't anymore.
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The only reason the NBA forced sterling to sell is because the NBA was getting a shit load of bad press. Sterling should have been forced to sell the team years before they actually forced him to
What about Jerry Richardson? Do you think he'd be selling if not for his scandal? I don't.
I hope you're right, but the NFL has a bigger stranglehold on the media than the NBA does. There is legitimate evidence that their game actually does irreversible brain damage and in some instances is pretty much directly responsible for former players taking their own lives. No real NFL journalist holds the league's feet to the fire (like Peter King, for instance). They aren't going to do a 180 because a bunch of cheerleaders were in an incredibly shitty position.
I don't know. I hope that you're right, but I'm not going to hold my breath for the NFL's owners to do the right thing.
Until the league figures out that treating women like garbage is a good way to bring back the fans who were turned off by the scary kneeling Negroes.
Only if they're willing to force 15 or so other owners to sell when it comes out that similar vile activities are going on with their cheerleading squads. Snyder is an odious character, but so are many (most) of the other owners. I've yet to hear of a team paying their cheerleaders a decent wage. I hope this story empowers other women to speak out on how they were treated and enough pressure builds to get the NFL to step up and force teams to both pay them what they deserve and treat them with dignity.
Over-under on how many days it'll take her to says something like?
Sadly so much of the bullshit that is going on now (concussions/CTE, objectifying and mistreating women, asshole owners, etc) was going on then as well. We simply know more now then we did then. It is increasingly difficult to be a fan of football and the NFL without willfully putting blinders on.
As to the bolded: And the lives of others. To say nothing of acts of violence that are as yet "invisible" because there is no event dramatic enough to make us aware of it.
"I'm a feminist."
If I'm not mistaken, any contract to conduct business that is illegal is automatically void. The question, then, would be if any laws were "technically" broken.
Even in the most intensive of capitalist arguments, it does seem like they should be compensated for behavior with prior informed consent ("notice" anyone?) of that to which they are contracting themselves.
How disgusting. So now anyone who dances in public or decides it's ok to wear skimpy cheerleader outfits is a sex object?
Even if they were paid, they definitely weren't paid for what was planned for them.
Yeah I was repeating what you wrote but I was growing madder at the whole thing and got a little lost. I apologize because it wasn't my intent that you condoned anything that Snyder and friends did.
Sounds about right.
Cool, this place is the anti-Facebook for me. I believe there is one trait that SOSH members share is that we're all nuts. And we also are good and caring people. This is my safe haven. So I have no intentions of pissing off anyone here.
You could also just...stop.
Are you aware of the V&N forum? But yeah as far as social platforms go, I agree the discourse here is as good as it gets. I saw one person admit they were wrong about something fairly inconsequential on facebook today and got a bazillion likes and replies telling them how brave they were. Like it wasn't something normal and decent people do every day in real life.
