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I’m puzzled by the incongruity of the response compared to the provocation. The Rutgers women’s basketball team has won the national championship. It would be fair to say they overcame enormous obstacles, mental and physical, to accomplish the feat. They are students at a major American university. It would be fair to say they overcame enormous obstacles to accomplish the feat. Unless, of course, it was all just given to them under affirmative action. But I think not. Didn’t they have to go into the opponents’ home courts and endure taunts, jeers, trash talk, along with the skill level of the opposing team that was trying to defeat them? Didn’t they have to do that not just once but time after time? Was the world rushing to them every step of the way to provide them with stress counseling to deal with the physical and mental rigors of high-level athletic competition? Was it a tough row to hoe? Did they fold under the pressure, and declare themselves irreparably hurt from the insults, taunts, pressure and public insults? Or did they overcome?

So, now they’re suddenly devastated by three crummy words? They now must descend into despondency, their lives permanently ruined, themselves consigned to total failure for all time, because of three words? What’s next for them, drug addiction, alcoholism, lifelong depression, crippling post-traumatic stress disorder? Suddenly they’re not stronger than that? Did the obstacles they had to overcome every step of the way, from high school through college to the national championship, pale in comparison to three lousy words? Now we choose to insult these strong women, in one breath telling them the enormity of their accomplishment makes them great, in the next breath that we think they can’t shake off three stupid words?

Get a grip. There must be money involved here for someone.


104 posted on 04/10/2007 11:33:51 AM PDT by DPMD (dpmd)
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The Rutgers women’s basketball team has won the national championship.

Nope. They lost

110 posted on 04/10/2007 12:17:59 PM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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