Incredible achievement, competition must have been intense.
9/23 = 39%
@EOW @The_Renaissance
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You know the rumours about sailors being gay, it would be useful in that instance. Although I suppose they have female sailors these days.
Odysseus had his crew block their ears with beeswax.
Anyway continuing the LGBT theme
Former standout guard describes ‘very, very harmful’ culture of women’s league, saying she was targeted for harassment for being heterosexual
www.theguardian.com
Candice Wiggins, the former Stanford University basketball star who retired from professional basketball last year, claimed she was targeted for harassment during an eight-year WNBA career because she was heterosexual.
Wiggins, who turned 30 last week, described the 'very, very harmful' culture of the WNBA in an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune published on Monday.
“It wasn’t like my dreams came true in the WNBA. It was quite the opposite,” said Wiggins, who announced her retirement last March while considering a contract extension from the New York Liberty. “I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t lend itself to my mental state.
But injuries were only a part of the problem for the southern California native, who described her difficulties assimilating to a league that she says consists predominately of gay women.
“Me being heterosexual and straight, and being vocal in my identity as a straight woman was huge,” Wiggins told the Union-Tribune. “I would say 98% of the women in the WNBA are gay women. It was a conformist type of place. There was a whole different set of rules they [the other players] could apply.
“There was a lot of jealousy and competition, and we’re all fighting for crumbs,” Wiggins added. “The way I looked, the way I played – those things contributed to the tension. People were deliberately trying to hurt me all of the time. I had never been called the B-word so many times in my life than I was in my rookie season. I’d never been thrown to the ground so much. The message was: ‘We want you to know we don’t like you.’”