Presenting the double standard in media and domestic violence
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It will be interesting to see how national media covers this story: <br><br>Natasha Howard, All-Star for WNBA&#39;s Seattle Storm, accused of physically threatening and abusing her wife, including with a knife. <a href="https://t.co/XmABwu3n0a">https://t.co/XmABwu3n0a</a></p>&mdash; Don Hillary (@donhillarykc) <a href="https://twitter.com/donhillarykc/status/1150250876998684678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">But I’m lying? Okay. <a href="https://t.co/RkszeL0Hq8">pic.twitter.com/RkszeL0Hq8</a></p>&mdash; 🌻 (@stopthepress93) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopthepress93/status/1150053406498705410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Seattle Storm host the New York Liberty 4 pm PST on Sunday, and as of now, no action has been taken by the team. This is a deeply disturbing allegation and doesn&#39;t yet seem to be getting much media attention (not even on front page of <a href="https://t.co/zd7OlBdOU7">https://t.co/zd7OlBdOU7</a> ).</p>&mdash; Don Hillary (@donhillarykc) <a href="https://twitter.com/donhillarykc/status/1150264653286715392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Seattle Times has posted this preliminary story for now: <a href="https://t.co/XmABwu3n0a">https://t.co/XmABwu3n0a</a><br><br>But for now, The Times has not demanded the Storm to cut/release Howard &quot;if&quot; these allegations prove true.</p>&mdash; Don Hillary (@donhillarykc) <a href="https://twitter.com/donhillarykc/status/1150265259283927045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">For those unaware, this is the 2nd domestic violence allegation in the WNBA in the last three months. <br><br>In late April, the LA Sparks&#39; Riquna Williams was arrested for assaulting her ex partner. (Williams has played in 14 of the team&#39;s 15 games this year.)<a href="https://t.co/AGAB0POnan">https://t.co/AGAB0POnan</a></p>&mdash; Don Hillary (@donhillarykc) <a href="https://twitter.com/donhillarykc/status/1150266401787191296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Meanwhile, the <a href="https://twitter.com/seattlestorm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@seattlestorm</a> haven&#39;t yet decided if Natasha Howard will play tonight after being accused of DV by her wife. The WNBA is &quot;in the process of gathering information.&quot;<br><br>Media didn&#39;t allow <a href="https://twitter.com/Chiefs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Chiefs</a> to &quot;gather info&quot; re: Tyreek Hill case and didn&#39;t care about due process. <a href="https://t.co/5Nh2spJdxY">https://t.co/5Nh2spJdxY</a></p>&mdash; Don Hillary (@donhillarykc) <a href="https://twitter.com/donhillarykc/status/1150476254350598144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Probably just more about how nobody gives a shit about the WNBA. :shrug:

Gasp!

The WNBA still exists?

It won't go viral by the usual suspects because they don't want to knock the WNBA.

Lesbians are the demographic with the highest rate of domestic violence

Angry vagina on vagina crime

KC Star Editorial Board: We're delighted to see women stepping up into positions of control in their relationship. We hope to see more of Ms. Howard asserting her feminine power.

My twitter sources tell me that this is actually just an extortion attempt. They cant run with the story for a few days/weeks/months but it's very legit. No doubt thos family is crazy. They might post some eye emojis in the near future though.

The WNBA has no relevance to 99.9% of the country. So it won’t get covered.

B-b-b-but equal pay!

Who in their right mind would demand equal pay for the wnba? The demand for women to be paid more from uswnt is because they are actually creating revenue. A lot of it.

And nobody gives a shit what professional athletes do or stay off the field.....

Can you help win a championship or not. The rest is just piece loser masturbation material.

Reminds me, did that first girl dunker chick from Baylor or whatever ever get her own DV shit under control?

Aren't they all?

Are you really this stupid

Random women make Clay angry, news at 11.

Smells like you don’t get the joke. Stupid.

OP triggered by another stupid event.

Shocked.

It almost seems like there’s a large number of lesbians in the WNBA. I’m shocked!

Fun fact: Lesbian couples have the highest instances (per capita) of domestic violence in the nation.

Looks like it's being covered pretty thoroughly relative to Tyreek considering the profile of the player. Not sure what double standard you're seeing.

Only because their “sugar daddy” the NBA keep them afloat financially. The irony is amazing.

Ugh, they are getting paid well. The breakdown was almost 300k per player for the tournament.

The ladies also get a yearly salary that the men don't and higher percentage of tournament winnings. Then the league pays them a bonus for playing in leagues.

The difference is the tournaments are on different levels. Men's dwarfs it.

They also are cherry picking stats, the years posted for generating a million more dollars include two world cups and an Olympics. Men had the Olympics.

This shit is laughable, if they want more money they actually need to create more revenue and sell tickets that are more than free to 9 dollars.

Putting aside the personal/family carnage of those involved this is not a good development for Tyreek. If they suspend her for a year there will be plenty of people who conflate this with Tyreek and will yell double-standard if he doesn’t get the same punishment.

Must be the patriarchy's fault. /s

Didn't know that. Funny. Female on male domestic is also way more common that you'd think.

Of course, it is but focusing on it would destroy the narrative.

Which city is that Afro-American Lesbian mayor of?

Well as one would expect men simply have a far higher potential to harm than women do. Plus when it comes to hyper violent lunatics, men dominate that field on the extreme end. So the worst cases are usually men harming women.

I've never struck a woman, but I'm 100% confident I could 1 punch KO all but one of my ex's.

She was very tall. Easily 6-3. Head like a St. Bernard. She was harmless though. Totally sweet girl.

If the dykes of women's soccer challenged the dykes of the WNBA to a naked jello wrestling match, I still don't think people would tune in......

FYP

I don't think they deserve equal pay. But they deserve a lot more $. You're relying on cherry picked stats too because a lot of those arguments that the USMNT brings in more credit the USMNT for World Cup revenue. Not even close to the same thing. US Soccer has a gigantic surplus and the men's team sure as shit hasn't done anything recently to justify getting any piece of that. They are most definitely underpaid.

Also, Hope Solo was charged with domestic violence. Was suspended. If she wasn't representing the US in the World Cup that year it would've been longer. She was pretty controversial after that point. Most women athletes don't make headlines on this issue because there aren't many women athletes with a high enough profile for anyone to give a shit.

ROFL

Seriously her head was enormous.

She cry hahself to sleep on hahr yuge pillah?

i cannot believe this is the new bond :crymyselftosleep: :D

Head like a rhino.

That's what happens when you put an unnatural pairing together and call it a "couple".

Well yeah. That bitch be checkin out that other bitch over there.

Male on male DV, any details on that? Pics, bring em in for a look?

That bitch be checking out my bitch and i’m about to be a bitch about that bitch checking out my bitch. That bitch need to find her own bitch and quit sniffing and snaking around me bitch. I’m Laricktasha James bitch.

Zactly

Should be a reality show like Live PD

But not more than the men. Going by percentage of revenue that they generate, the women actually make a lot more.

https://youtu.be/xw8SapT5XwA

That only looks at what fifa pays them. It ignores what the US soccer federation pays them. Men are getting paid in a lot of other ways. I don't think it should be equal pay, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the uswnt made US soccer a LOT of money and they're not getting very much of it. They're most definitely underpaid.

If you can find some figures on what US soccer pays and how it relates to how much they made then I'll be glad to look at it.

The women's team dominates the world and the men don't. That much is true. But the competition on the men's side is much greater. So, that is hard to compare. What I don't understand is why we don't seem to put as much support into our men's team as what I kept hearing about the women's team.

And btw, the women's team lost to a boys youth team from Texas. The women and men are not the same.

Really? Where do we find that statistic? It's actually a really interesting fact if it's true.

I'm not surprised you completely missed the point.

Because our US men's team is embarrassingly bad. People came out in droves when we were winning. I really don't care about the metrics on who's athletically better. So I hate that nonsense argument that they got beat in a scrimmage against teenagers. Of course Federer is going to beat Serena. It's a simple matter of whether they are earning sponsorships, ads, jersey sales, all those things. If they're earning those things, they deserve a cut. There isn't a doubt uswnt earned a LOT of money for us soccer. They're sitting on a gigantic surplus.

Here is a pretty balanced take.
www.tampabay.com/nation-world/politifact-does-the-us-womens-soccer-team-bring-in-more-revenue-but-get-paid-less-than-the-men-20190712/%3ftemplate=amp
Of course when men win they drive a hell of a lot more revenue. That's why I think equal pay is nonsense. At the same time keep in mind the best on the usmnt are getting paid outside of us soccer a shitload more than women do. They earn a lot in the pros and all kinds of crazy soccer bonuses. No woman will ever in a lifetime earn pulisic money nor should they. Women make most of their money off us soccer. The reason you probably haven't heard a peep from usmnt players is because they're getting paid just fine. The kind of bonus women are asking for is pocket change.

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One of the wnba ladies got a 10 game suspension.

Even more frequently than male on female, but far, far less effective or reported.

Same with suicide. Females attempt more than men, but males succeed more than women.

This feels like an elaborate way to describe the fact that you own a dog.

More frequently? Not sure I buy that. I mean, they probably do this more frequently than we are told, but more than men? Not buying that. :hmmm:

That thin hahs et's oown wethar sestem...

My cherry picked stats are on actual revenue.

What happens if the women break away from the organization and run on their own? They would make even less.

This is not the corporate world, you get paid based off revenue generated. Even a shitty men's team still generates more revenue when playing because the tournaments revenue is so massive.

If the women want more, they need their fans to actually spend money and travel to games and cause the cost of tickets to rise. The rest of the world will also need to do it, but that is the problem. Right now tickets are free to super cheap to go watch. Packing a free power and light will not do it.

If the league ever generates a billion dollars in revenue then they will be paid a lot more. It is still in its infancy.

The article was deleted, but the women also get paid other ways. From what I have read just from the wc alone they made around 330k each, then the salary is 100k, then they get paid for each game outside of those for team USA.

Yearly salary, benefits, they get paid by their leagues, they get bonuses. Should they get paid more? Maybe yes, but leagues are not going to go more bankrupt for it. Your only option right now is sponsors kicking in money.

Never knew that.

The point is that women are seeking equal pay from us soccer because that is their primary source of income. Its not that much per player. Just give them the victory and call it a day. It's hard to look at all the sponsorships, merchandise, etc. and think they didn't earn it and then some. They're sitting on a huge surplus right now.

The women can call it equal pay but it really isn't. The men under their CBA are less reliant on us soccer salary because they make far more money outside of us soccer than women do. The best in the world are paid very, very well. And if the men start winning, even though they earn a smaller % of world cup revenue they earn significantly more $s because the world cup grosses a shit ton more... When we make the actual tournament.

Long story short, the women undoubtedly made us soccer more than enough money this year to justify a pay raise. Equal pay gets them what they want, but men still get paid a whole lot more. Seems alright with me.

Not surprising at all, really.

Wait. What??? There's a womans basketball league? STFUSTFUSTFU

Interesting. I wonder if this is reported abuse only or does it include unreported abuse? I'd like to see a break down of reported violence vs unreported violence across all demographics. I assume men report it less often, especially if the partner is female. The one that always freaks me out is Police officers having the highest rate of abuse, and I can't imagine how many of those go unreported.

Usually a woman in involved in that, too.

if it's not reported then how can it be tracked you doofus?

JERRY! JERRY! JERRY!

Same way the unreported rapes and sexual assaults are, silly.

Of course SDH is a homophobe.....

Yes. I claim it proudly. Homosexuality is an abomination which makes me sick unto vomiting, thank you. Rainbow flags make both a fine, silky toilet paper for my bunghole and excellent kindling!

Sorry you bigots lost the culture war, brah.

The war is far from over, bundle of sticks.

You’re a clown that needs to be permanently Rompered.

Negative, my little socialist Nazi. I have elected to remove myself from the lounge and the romper room for the most part, so that I may focus my attentions in the DC form where an individual May freely speak their mind without interference from certain candy assed members of the moderation team. Said members are clearly offended by the "distasteful" discourse in the DC forum, and generally tend to stay as far away from it as possible.

Which suits me just fine.:fire:

WNBA should be renamed to LNBA, sure looks like a lesbian league to me.

Media won't care anyhow.
LGBT are victims no matter what they do, unlike us homophobic sexists.

You are wrong...wrong, wrong, wrong...get over it. Try to actually understand the disparity in the revenue between the two sports.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeoza.../#5c151bfd6da4

Womens soccer = Mens High School soccer...they're overpaid.