Can we talk about Imus like adults?

The uppity women brigade is a response to the constant and pervasive sexism on this site and my comments were more general, but I'm so sorry I made you comfortable.

I mean that's what you guys want us to say right?

 

That might be how YOU would have handled it, heyabbott.
And not for nothing, but whenever Whitlock is attacked, he's the first to put on the gloves and come out screaming.
The Rutgers players and coach Stringer haven't resorted to name-calling or slurs. Their grace and dignity is overwhelming. If they feel the need to let people like those described by Badger see who they really are, then good on them. Apparently there are folks who need to be reminded, again and again, that these are teenage girls who did nothing to inspire this degradation.

 

I'm surprised it took only 13 pages before someone blamed Bush for all this. Even jokingly.

 

No disrespect to you, my wise friend, but who cares if they have tattoos or not? Does it make it okay for them to be mocked with hateful slurs?

 

Chick,

You can make me uncomfortable if you want. If I get too comfortable, I just fall asleep these days.

 

I'm going to go out on a limb and say sportschick and the chorus of others so offended by this language have, in their lifetimes, purchased a CD or two by Snoop, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Ludacris, Biggie and countless others who use the n-word and disrespect women in every other song. And if not, surely they have watched a Chappelle's Show episode or two. That guy wouldn't have any material without the n-word.

But that Imus is racist and sexist for saying "nappy-headed hoes." Yeah.

 

True, Kirk, they were on TV four or five times in fact in a two week span of the NCAA tournament.
That must have been where Imus noticed how "rough looking" they were "with all their tatoos." That after all is what made them nappy-headed hos.


Oh, by the way, exactly ONE Rutgers player has a tatoo.

 

It must have been the red color of their uniforms. I'm sure your friends were making a subtle literary reference to Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter.

 

They were asked their opinion and their feelings. They should bottle those thoughts up and make politcally correct comments that appease and comforts a percentage of the public?

Is it not possible for them to be disgusted with what he said, but willing to listen to his reasons for saying what he said and accept a possible apology?

 

The difference is that Anne Coulter makes a career out of ripping people to shreds, including widows of 9/11 victims and mothers who have lost their sons in war. If you spew hatred, expect some blowback.

All these girls did was play basketball.

Big difference.

 

Heyabbott,
It's my experience you fight hate with words, with dialogue. Not with silence.

 

It's not how I would have reacted, but it's how I wish I would. The players grace and dignity is intact, I thought the coach, whom I don't know, was a little too Nancy Grace for me.