Posted on 06/12/2015 4:53:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
Brittney Griner was a huge college star in women's basketball two years ago. Her dominance of the sport at 6-foot-8 was unquestioned -- she could dunk with ease, and she blocked more shots than anyone else in college basketball history, men or women. Her Baylor squad was the first team in college basketball history, men's or women's, to win 40 games in a single year.
Griner was drafted first overall in the WNBA. She also made headlines later in 2013 for coming out as a lesbian. Along with other athletes, like Jason Collins in the NBA, she was lauded by the press for being an "inspiration" to the gay community. Griner and Johnson announced their engagement last August and made an appearance on the TLC wedding-reality program "Say Yes to the Dress."
But what happens when the "inspiration" is arrested for domestic violence? The same news media that love the libertine narrative get very quiet.
On April 22, Griner and her girlfriend Glory Johnson (also a WNBA player) were arrested after police came to their new home after someone called and said they were throwing things at each other, and then could not be pulled apart. The first press reports said Griner had tooth marks in one hand; Johnson had a lacerated lip. Johnson's lawyer later gave records to Sports Illustrated claiming Johnson suffered from head trauma, a concussion and spinal trauma after being hit "on the back of her head by a hard carrying case."
The day after the arrest, The Washington Post published a blog -- not in the newspaper -- headlined "Brittney Griner, Glory Johnson and the WNBA's domestic violence problem; 'Intimate partner violence among LGBT couples is also a huge problem that gets considerably less attention,' according to a WNBA-watcher."
Despite the incident, Griner and Johnson were married on May 9. They were each suspended seven games by the WNBA. Obviously, the media didn't find this to be a small fraction as newsworthy as NFL star Ray Rice's domestic-violence incident. The NFL is a much larger business than the WNBA. Rice knocked his now-wife unconscious on video ... and Rice was male and heterosexual.
The closest the Griner fight came to prominence was a May 31 Washington Post story on the front of their sports section strangely headlined "Tough, But No Fighter." The Post story began with ooze: "An authentic American athlete has a fresh blotch on her bio, so it might help that she also has uncommonly sturdy innards."
Then the saga continued. On June 4, Johnson announced on Instagram that she was pregnant (with no mention of whether she was pregnant during the violence). Two days later, Griner announced she was seeking an annulment of their marriage after 28 days.
The networks have offered nothing on these developments, broadcast news or cable news. The Post and The New York Times offered a modicum of coverage. But USA Today was a complete joke. They could only rehash one Twitter message. Last August, they published a whole story headlined "For Griner, best still to come; Mercury star prolific on court, happy off it," discussing Griner's lesbian relationship and wedding plans.
On the top of the front a page of USA Today's Sports section on June 4 was a story headlined "Locker rooms full of gay slurs." A survey by gay activists to protest "homophobia in sports" drew more than 1,500 words and large color photos with the story continuing to take up an entire inside page.
The Griner story underlines one lesson. What serves the gay narrative is news. What hurts the gay narrative gets buried.
Those pictures look like a female version of Milli Vanilli
So, Brittany blocked more shots in College than any MAN or woman. I guess that means she is a better shot blocker than an man in college basketball history? The author seems to imply that.
Does the first woman’s picture actually have an Adam’s apple? Or is that some weird sort of muscle in her throat?
I thought domestic violence was a legal/criminal issue.
What do the “media” or “sports” have to do with it?
I noticed that too. No wonder she’s a lesbian
I wonder how many of the shots she blocked were made by men...
The lying, backstabbing, two-bit, hypocritical, dirty, shameless media (sports and news media) follows an agenda, Mr. Bozell.
Upon further review, you’ll find they care little about ‘women and children’, ‘minorities’, the general welfare, true justice or fairness,...even the environment is of little importance to them.
Their goals are evil and diabolical; and their methods are ruthless.
Pussy pass.
How about Hope(my glass is full) Solo?
Another good reason to watch hockey. I have not watched the other sports for a long time. PC has ruined sports along with everything else they touch.
Well, if the WNBA were a real sport instead of a form of "protection money" being paid by the NBA to feminist groups to shut up about its own players' behavior toward women, the story might be as newsworthy as Ray Rice's.
But with a fan base comprised of hundreds and hundreds of people, this incident just isn't a big headline maker. :)
Neither sport interests me, to be honest
The sports fans of the country don't seem to be buying into this cultural cesspool. The WNBA could never survive economically if it weren't subsidized by the NBA. One wonders why the NBA ownerships haven't abandoned the WNBA altogether after all these years of financial losses.
Agree. I was thinking ‘she’ should talk to Jenner’s surgeon for an Adams apple shaving if ‘she’ wants to keep pretending ‘she’ is a woman.
I heard a good joke the other day:
The WNBA.
But seriously, both of my sons are recent college grads. They really liked women’s volleyball, and the games at Purdue were very well attended by the students. Nobody went to the women’s basketball games. My sons said they didn’t necessarily go to watch volleyball because the teams were good (even though they were). They went because the players were hot and not lesbos. For the flip side of the same coin, there was no interest whatsoever in women’s basketball, and I don’t think either of my sons went to a single game.
I heard the Chicago (I’m a Chicago Sports fan) Sky made the WNBA finals last season. And I didn’t give even half of a **it, I just looked it up to see if they won or not (they didn’t).
I had ZERO idea the NBA-ette Finals were underway.
Really, who gives a s**t?
Where’s the outrage over the (fe?)male-on-(fe?)male DV? Can you imagine getting the call to go break those two up? I’d refuse it; those (fe?)males scare me. You’re talking “the missing link” right there. Maybe they’re the inspiration for the “Abbies” from “Wayward Pines”.
Bruce “Still has his schmendel” is MUCH more feminine than those two. By far.
I’d be in “fire first, ask second” mode. Damn straight.
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