should be sympathy for Duke guys, not Rutgers girls

I think I'm going to ill repuke... :-X

 

How, for a second, can you doubt the damage done to these young women? They are a few months past childhood. And for all black women who were insulted, and all women? How can you say how badly they are offended?
They're barely more than children. How would we feel if they were 18 year-old white girls called basically prostitutes? A whole team? Repreatedly? Your sister or new born?
Come on guys!

 

If I call you a glue-sniffing moron will you be scarred?

 

Omar, settle. At this point, these are NOT girls a few months past childhood. That type of thought went out the window around 1979.

They've just played a season of major-college basketball, went through several years of hard-core recruiting process and, being Rutgers recruits, have been the center of media and community attention for the past 5-6 years.

And YOU'RE drawing a racial line there that's not completely true. Rutgers is not an all-black squad.

 

They can doubt the damage because they've never been 18 or 19 year old women.

The I'm scarred for life thing seems like hyperbole to us because we're older and jaded. But I remember thinking I'd be scarred for life at that age over similar stupid comments about me.

 

Thing is -- and this is for everyone, not just major-college athletes -- 18-year-old girls are a lot further from being children today than they were 20 years ago.

 

I'm just saying it's majorly offensive. And we can't say how badly people's feelings are hurt. I was saying there's a history of discrimination all of us can't understand. So, I don't think people are marching because it's good excercise. I don't think these girls are lying about how badly their feelings were hurt.
And, even if they have played a lot of big-time hoops and had the spotlite on them, they are still just 18 or 19.
Remember that age?
Also, remeber, the slur wasn't just about them. But about every girl who looks like them and what our society thinks about them.

 

Omar, listen carefully. We can't remember that age, because we never were that age. We were never 18 years old in the year 2007. That's the difference.

 

Shottie, I don't think how you feel during your teen years has changed all that much. Overreacting is and always has been a teenage trait. It's not just confined to teens from 20 years ago.

 

Yes, but 20 years ago, teenage overreactions weren't chronicled on a 24-hour news cycle, myspace and message boards. It is different now.

 

Society may be different, but the teenage mind really isn't.

 

I disagree. It's much more world-weary.