tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129392383064122848.post53533808444579635..comments2023-11-05T00:40:33.886-07:00Comments on The Libertine: Essay Thursday - Threats to MasculinityThe Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727756184924532355noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129392383064122848.post-38239276469726851602008-06-10T14:44:00.000-07:002008-06-10T14:44:00.000-07:00I'm reminded of a comment by Bill James regarding ...I'm reminded of a comment by Bill James regarding the lack of acceptance of sabrmetrics - advanced baseball statistics - by the baseball hierarchy.<BR/><BR/>"If we are doomed to be outsiders, then let us take this role and use it to our best advantage."<BR/><BR/>That's my conclusion about the WNBA. You don't make the WNBA successful (if it can be in such a constrictive American social system) by trying to market to people who are dead set against the WNBA succeeding for the same reasons that you've written so eloquently about. Logic isn't important to those people anyway; rational argument won't reach them.<BR/><BR/>Rather, you market the WNBA to people who are already outsiders, you make it an "outside thing", with a spirit, a drive, and a concept different from any of the other concepts currently existing in sports. <BR/><BR/>Let the Bill Simmonses and Norman Chads and Debbie Schlussels sing to the self selected choir. But also let the world know that there's a different sort of thing going on, a different choir that sings different music with a different rhythm. If you're the kind of person who wants to make the world sing the same old sad song its always sung, then we're not listening. And if you want to sing along with the WNBA well...grab a songbook. There's always a place in our choir.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129392383064122848.post-77265949373072561222007-06-18T07:13:00.000-07:002007-06-18T07:13:00.000-07:00It's a dirty shame. Seriously. Why is it that the ...It's a dirty shame. Seriously. Why is it that the success of others makes so many feel inept? Well, whatever. Let the haters hate. All the more for us.The Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04727756184924532355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129392383064122848.post-30298187496578657632007-06-17T13:49:00.000-07:002007-06-17T13:49:00.000-07:00Unfortunately, I think a lot of the reasons why wo...Unfortunately, I think a lot of the reasons why women hate the WNBA are the same as why men hate the WNBA: we're out of our place, we're uppity, we're trying to be men because we do things that men do, we're threatening the comfortable niche these women have found. Never mind that we're not forcing them to be something they're not, we're providing a chance for their daughters to be something else, something that might be better, and kids can't be better than their parents.<BR/><BR/>Amazing how many people think they win in this system, innit?Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00419482533163075635noreply@blogger.com