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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So Jill Biden has suggested that the White House should invite both the LSU and Iowa teams to the White House to celebrate their accomplishments and Angel Reese responded by Tweeting that it was "A JOKE" with emojis mocking Biden's suggestion. I'm sorry that she's embarrassing the hell out of y'all when you ought to be congratulating her, and that you still feel obligated to defend her, but this girl is just flat-out trash with zero class. [/quote] WTF? Why would both teams be invited? Do they invite both men’s teams after their championship? Both Super Bowl teams? Both World Series teams? NO THEY DON’T. She’s right, it is a joke. LSU is the champ, only they should be invited. This isn’t the flex Jill Biden thinks it is. Every body doesn’t need a participation trophy. Iowa didn’t win, they stay home. It is absolutely ridiculous to even suggest both teams. [/quote] Without Clark and the interest the Iowa team generated about 1/3 the number of viewers would have watched this final. Of course Iowa would turn down the invitation and not give the low-class LSU team another opportunity to mug and pout and generally make asses of themselves. No one needed Reese to weigh on yet again, but that stupid clown of course has no filter, whether before, during, or after the game. [/quote] The rest of the world sees in Reese a young woman clearly and correctly pointing out double standards and representing the majority of players and real fans. Funny how she lives in your head rent free. Stay mad. [/quote] Hardly. Her reputation already sucked but now she’s tarnished her team’s victory as well. DCUM predictably makes excuses but she’s been widely ridiculed and condemned in sports circles. [/quote] +1 Reese is getting absolutely slaughtered everywhere except DCUM. Did she also not shake hands? Maybe some racists were spreading that rumor around.[/quote] No she isn't. A ton of prominent athletes have come out in support of her. You can keep your Keith Olberman and Dave Portnoy :roll: [/quote] Dave Portnoy far better reflects the views of sports fans across the country than DCUM ninnies. Y’all can defend Reese but you won’t actually pay money to watch her play in the future because she brings nothing new to the game. [/quote] No he doesn't. A TON of athletes have come out in support of her saying trash talk is just part of the game and if you dish it out, you need to be able to take it. Even Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi said it on their live broadcast. A bunch of real sports fans are actually bewildered that the media is making such a huge deal out of this. Real ballers are used to trash talk. If they want to clap back at Angel beat her and shut her up next time.[/quote] If this is the case, then why did Reesie make such a big deal out of Clark’s conduct toward someone on another team? Isn’t that just typical in game trash talk? Why can’t Clark do it too then? Because white girls are not allowed to do such a thing against a black player? Actually this was just Reese showing her own racism. [/quote] This has been addressed in this thread. Angel was making a bigger point about the differential treatment. Monica Cziznano on Iowa can throw her elbows and shoulders around and she's playing hard, but when LSU and SC play tough defense it's a "bar fight" or they're "thugs" or "hood rats". Caitlin and Hailey always gets the benefit of the doubt for their trash talk, flopping and other antics, yet Angel and players from similar backgrounds are pilloried. She is making a point about the benefit of the doubt and outsized attention given to Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, Hailey Van Lith, Cameron Brink, the Cavinder Twins etc. Similarly excellent black players do not get the same media spotlight, attention and hype. To you that waive Caitlin did to Raven Johnson was a cute little thing or even "savage!". To the SEC girls, it was symbolic of how they have been similarly and repeatedly dismissed, ignored, overlooked and undervalued throughout their entire basketball careers. What was the refrain they kept repeating? Put some respect on my name! They were all giving Caitlin her due as a great player, and they just want it for themselves too. I bet you didn't blink twice when Maria Sharapova outlearned Serena Williams in endorsements for much of their careers despite Williams' absolute dominance in that "rivalry". Like she said, it was bigger than her.[/quote] Overlooked how? They are privileged to play Division 1 basketball and get full ride tuition. Give me a break. Since when have black women been “dismissed, overlooked, and ignored” in college basketball? Black people are always victims you know. :roll: [/quote] Translation: be happy with the little crumbs we're throwing you, little girl. :roll: It's been clear that you don't follow and are not familiar with women's basketball. You just have your little agenda. [/quote] Oh shut up. Since when are all of these outstanding opportunities that thousands of girls would kill for, on addition to lucrative NIL contracts, “little crumbs?” [/quote] Know your place, Angel![/quote] Angel gets a scholarship and NIL money for throwing a ball in a hoop. What do you want to do, give her a Senate seat? [/quote] DP. And all these people upthread going on about her social media presence and talk of endorsements. You can't have it both ways. She is using her notoriety to make money. Tale as old as time and not limited to any one race. Give us a break.[/quote] She had to [i]create[/i] her notoriety through something that goes beyond her basketball excellence. It was just assumed or handed to her or bolstered through outsized media attention that [i]others[/i] always seem to get. You think they'll be throwing Aneesah Morrow a ton of NIL deals? You ever even heard of her? Yet the Cavinder twins are plastered everywhere. "This is for all the girls that look like me"[/quote] So sick of the “look like me” trope. If other groups say that, they are branded as racists. [/quote] Does this make you sick too? [quote]Thanks to that accessibility, Clark has become one of the most recognizable faces in women's basketball over the last three years. To her, it's awesome to know that there are millions of little girls around the country who look to her to see what they have the potential to become. “I’m all about growing the women’s game,” Clark said after toppling Indiana in the regular season finale last month, “and I’m glad I’ve given something that little girls can scream about at the top of their lungs. I can imagine when I was younger, I was doing the exact same thing watching on TV. It’s pretty fun.”[/quote] https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports/college/iowa/basketball-women/2023/03/23/iowa-womens-basketball-caitlin-clark-best-quotes-season-ncaa-tournament-march-madness/70038413007/ [/quote] So now white girls aren’t allowed to be the face of anything? [/quote] Either you hate the “look at me” trope for both girls, or you like it or both girls. If you like it for one girl, but not the other, can you explain that?[/quote] Chasing someone around the court after winning the championship is not what Clark did, so no, they are not the same thing. Trying to say they are the same thing says a lot about you, and it is not good. Did Reese also refuse to shake hands?[/quote] You're changing your tune. First you had a problem with the "look like me" trope when Angel said it, but for Caitlin it's not a problem. Caitlin is a champion and inspiration for little girls to look up to, but screw those little girls that look like Angel. We see you...[/quote] You're making up your own facts to support your agenda. Maybe critical thinking isn't you're thing. [/quote] How about you give reading the thread a try, genius.[/quote] How about you answer the question are you OK with Caitlin Clark saying that she was playing for girls look like her?[/quote] I'm not the one that originally asserted that I was sick of the "look like me" trope. Maybe ask that PP.[/quote] You can still answer the question[/quote] I personally don't see a problem with her wanting to inspire little girls from Iowa to make it to the big stage. She works hard and is dedicated to her craft and that, at least, is to be commended.[/quote] And Reese saying “This is for all the girls that look like me”?[/quote] Totally fine. A lot of the girls to which Angel is referring grow up in precarious circumstances and basketball can be a good outlet for them and one way to affirm their value in a world that often does not. Beyond that, they have visible images of athletic excellence to which they can aspire.[/quote]
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