I refrain from politics here as much as possible but as a social worker I feel the need to speak up. Nobody gets into this field for the money. Making this work even less appealing is a massive blow. We have always needed social workers and always will. This really hurts to see.
Your daughter is more likely to be raped than lose to a trans athlete.
Your daughter is more likely to get obliterated by an automatic weapon at school than lose to a trans athlete.
Someone needs to write the definitive essay on how ESPN going from Pat Berman and Stuart Scott to Stephen A Smith and Pat McAfee traces the overall declining fortunes of American masculinity and the triumph of bro culture
It's funny. Growing up, I never thought I'd dislike ESPN. Today, I do. The disparity in promotion. The politics. The thumbs on the scale. Manipulation of rankings. Blowhard personalities. No more journalism. The enshitification of the network is complete.
Doing some light scrolling of the news, seems like the banks are out of money, the gas stations are out of gas, and the lions are out of offensive linemen
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story.
It’s called the “burnerverse”: a sprawling network of anonymous college-sports accounts that can look, at first glance, like ordinary shitposting.
Then I started looking closer. And what I found was a highly coordinated network of hundreds of anon accounts, dedicated to doxxing girls and ruining their lives.
My investigation for @WIRED — including some of the men allegedly behind some of these accounts — is out now. https://t.co/4t3XESCOND
… not sure why the NY Post is surprised that that the generation which grew up being shot at in schools thinks that it’s funny that a dude who asserted that school shootings are “just the cost of doing business” (I’m paraphrasing) caught a bullet in the neck…