You really want to see a Mudede swing and a miss? Let me preface this by saying that I absolutely loathe Ben Shapiro and nearly everything that sanctimonious prick stands for. That said, he absolutely bulldozed Charles in a panel I just recently found out about. Charles couldn't even put together coherent sentences.
@5 & 6...was that some sort of satire of the most stereotypical conservatives and liberals and someone posted it on YouTube or was it supposed to be a serious discussion? I couldn't stop laughing at the total absurdity of the video.
Charles. As it stands, that post is actually sexist. You made the Sharapova doping story about the beauty standard for women, not about the behavior standards for professional athletes. Does Sharapova milk her opportunities for product endorsements? Sure. If she is in some way guilty of perpetuating racism by letting them pay her for modeling, you need to use a few more words to tell us what you think she should do instead, not just hold your own beauty standard contest by blog sneer. Shame on you and the editor who didn't edit you. Could you think a little harder about your male gaze and male privilege the next time you comment on women and appearance?
Charles. As it stands, that post is actually sexist. You made the Sharapova doping story about the beauty standard for women, not about the behavior standards for professional athletes. Does Sharapova milk her opportunities for product endorsements? Sure. If she is guilty of perpetuating racism by letting them pay her for modeling, you need to use a few more words to tell us what you think she should do instead, not just hold your own beauty standard contest. Shame on you and the editor who didn't edit you. Could you think a little harder about your male gaze and male privilege the next time you comment on women and appearance?
I think you are all being to hard on Charles, I mean this just reminds me of the time that a bunch of white athletes had to use performance enhancing drugs to keep pace with the totally clean living Barry Bonds.
On March 7, 2016, former world number one tennis player Maria Sharapova announced that she had failed a drug test in Australia due to the detection of meldonium. She said that she had been taking the drug for ten years for various health issues, and had not noticed that it had been banned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldonium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cUDl_LE…
Pro sports is a business, not a game.
Anyway, there's a 10000% chance she was taking this for performance-enhancing reasons, she practically recited the approved uses in her statement.
Of course, there's a pretty high chance most tennis players were taking this or something similar, and smartly stopped with the change of rules.
Good luck with that.
On March 7, 2016, former world number one tennis player Maria Sharapova announced that she had failed a drug test in Australia due to the detection of meldonium. She said that she had been taking the drug for ten years for various health issues, and had not noticed that it had been banned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldonium
The list of banned substances.
https://wada-main-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/…