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 Posted: 03/13/19 11:20 am ::: Candice Wiggins, come on down |
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| The former W player appeared on The Price is Right today
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| Posted: 03/13/19 12:21 pm ::: |
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| Did she win anything?
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| Posted: 03/13/19 5:23 pm ::: |
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| The episode just got posted on the CBS website.
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| Posted: 03/13/19 6:17 pm ::: |
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| She won a $1,000 smartphone and a $650 tool kit.
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| Posted: 03/13/19 6:32 pm ::: |
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| Ooh, the gold diggers gonna be all over her now
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| Posted: 03/13/19 6:56 pm ::: |
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| Ooh, the gold diggers gonna be all over her now |
And lucky for them she is in the 1/10!
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| Posted: 03/13/19 7:10 pm ::: |
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And trafficked in the tired clichés that female athletes have been trying to end...
When you read her persecution complex through the prism that she believes that the league is 98% lesbian and they are all trying to make her one too, doesn't it sound remarkably like the alt-right's "the mooooslums gunna make us all do sharia law"?
Yeah, no idea why people took issue with what she was saying. If she had been able to present actual factual support to her contentions it would be one thing, but otherwise it was someone who was a well documented agitator on the court (and I say that as someone who loved that about her game) complaining that the people who she agitated didn't particularly like her, and assuming it was because she was too pretty and feminine and straight for them.
Not to mention, she played a majority of her career on a team led by a straight Maya Moore (who just quit basketball to freaking do missionary work--yeah she full of hate--and a straight Lindsay Whalen).
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| Posted: 03/13/19 7:25 pm ::: |
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| Wiggins smeared all the players in the WNBA with her blatant homophobia. I'm willing to believe that someone bullied her. Did the 98% of the WNBA players who are lesbians--using her absurd statistic--ALL bully Candice Wiggins for being heterosexual? What utter, bigoted crap.
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| Posted: 03/13/19 7:29 pm ::: |
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https://www.ozy.com/the-huddle/being-heterosexual-was-her-biggest-hurdle-now-for-the-rebound/87124
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She understands that her words were painful, but she also believes that while she may have been heard, no one listened. Instead, her lazy exaggeration allowed her message to be commandeered.
At times, she’ll say she doesn’t care if anyone understands: “If you don’t believe me, reject what I had to say.” But Wiggins is adamant that she spoke out to try to improve the game she loves. “I’m not trying to destroy the system,” she says. |
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| Posted: 03/13/19 9:07 pm ::: |
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It seems to be a human shortcoming to label and stereotype entire groups of people based on our own limited experiences. I would suggest that the emphasis should be placed on eliminating that tendency. that seems to be the crux of and foundation for all bias and bigotry. We often make unrealistic assumptions based purely on our own isolated experience. Now those experiences should not be diminished but just put into context with the whole.
My experience seems to show that bigotry and bias can not be eliminated by a focus on just one area. When we do so, bias is just is transferred to another group. We do not solve an issue by focusing on any individual effect. It needs to go direct to the cause. It is about reasonable and logical evaluations of situations and people. Of course there are people who do not want that because they no longer would be able to take advantage of other peoples irrationality.
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| Posted: 03/13/19 9:25 pm ::: |
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Wiggins blogs about the show
https://www.candicewiggins.com/tombelle-lifestyle/the-price-is-right-experience
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| The first prize was revealed to be a tool kit, and it was hard for me to hide my reservation. It was cool, and honestly just being the first contestant on stage was enough of a reward for me, but it’s not the glamorous prize you usually envision for the show, especially for the first game. |
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| Posted: 03/17/19 12:46 pm ::: |
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| justintyme wrote: |
| When you read her persecution complex through the prism that she believes that the league is 98% lesbian and they are all trying to make her one too, doesn't it sound remarkably like the alt-right's "the mooooslums gunna make us all do sharia law"? |
I don't see any similarities and I don't see where she said they were trying to convert her.
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| Posted: 03/23/19 3:28 am ::: |
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| The great thing about not naming names is that no one can directly refute it. But if you say X did Y at Z, they can possibly provide proof that it isn't true.
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| Posted: 03/23/19 11:42 am ::: |
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| The great thing about not naming names is that no one can directly refute it. But if you say X did Y at Z, they can possibly provide proof that it isn't true. |
Quite right.
The other great thing about not naming names is that you get to smear everyone in sight. I'm willing to believe that Candice Wiggins was bullied. But was she bullied by all the hundreds of players in the WNBA over her eight seasons? Or by every one of the 98% of players she (ridiculously) claims are lesbians?
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| Posted: 03/23/19 6:45 pm ::: |
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| akronborn wrote: |
| The great thing about not naming names is that no one can directly refute it. But if you say X did Y at Z, they can possibly provide proof that it isn't true. |
Quite right.
The other great thing about not naming names is that you get to smear everyone in sight. I'm willing to believe that she was bullied. But was she bullied by all the hundreds of players in the WNBA over her eight seasons? Or by every one of the 98% of players she (ridiculously) claims are lesbians? |
That part Bob...i agree 100 %
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