The WNBA: STILL Making People Mad?

So saith ESPN. Why? A whole bunch of dumbass reasons.

• “Normally, I wouldn’t care that the NBA is wasting some money on the side, but when there are avenues to invest that money that could actually provide a benefit for the NBA, that’s where I have an issue.” –Look, buddy, the definition of “waste” is something that doesn’t provide a benefit. So what you’re saying is, you have a problem with this “waste” of money – just not others.
• “It’s not the gender, it’s the talent. They just aren’t good enough yet. I say yet, because I recognize the progress they’ve made. The NBA didn’t start with the greatest talent either.” –So what you’re saying is, the first NBA fans were dumb and should not have been fans until, um, the NBA grew big enough – without fans – to um, not suck enough to be worth His Highness’ time.
• “It’s not about being threatened as a man, it’s about being threatened as a fan.” Of men. Right.
• “I have only one issue about the WNBA — it’s a violation of the Civil Rights Amendment.” Totally unlike men’s sports!

Not a women’s libber? You’re dumb.

Loved your speech during the announcement. I’m a mother of 6 and you go girl!! I am not a woman’s libber at all. Infact, I blame women libber’s for me having to work outside of the home! I think it should be a choice not mandatory! I’m a realtor…wanna buy a house in CA, they are all on sale right now!
Tami Turner Anderson (Sacramento, CA)
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Shooting fish in a barrel, you say? No – New Feminist is not planning a critique of such sentiments (or whatever baby version of critique would be applicable here), no matter how temptingly expressed. Instead, NF will simply use the above quotation as a springboard to point out something that should be obvious, but obviously isn’t. Here it is:

Feminism likes housewives.

There.

The media has too long cherry-picked from the roster of feminist thinkers and presented to the world only those feminists who either don’t like housewives or (more likely) can be twisted into seeming like they don’t like housewives.

In fact, if people were to actually read feminists instead of just shooting off their mouth about them, they would discover that feminists like Germaine Greer and Gerda Lerner discuss the value of the work that women do inside the home, argue for a greater appreciation of the value of that work, and warn against women buying into the idea that “equality” means being more like men.

Every nincompoop woman who bows daily before an internal shrine to Donna Reed should remember that “women’s libbers” got women every right they didn’t have a hundred years ago AND demanded that the old roles be valued even more than they are. And then they should go read a fucking book.