Every woman on the planet currently knows, or used to know a guy, around whom they have to choose their words very carefully, because the minute they say something slightly negative, it becomes a whole thing. The men get defensive, their feelings are hurt and it instantly becomes all about them and whatever you were discussing doesn’t matter.
The clearest example of this type of guy is on television every day — his name is Stephen A. Smith. The ESPN star is the lead analyst on one of the network’s most popular shows, “First Take,” notable for the heated arguments that frequently break out between Smith and his colleagues.
On Monday’s episode, while discussing Chennedy Carter’s hard foul on Caitlin Clark in Saturday’s game between the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever, things got particularly spicy with NBA/WNBA/NCAA basketball analyst Monica McNutt.
Smith was once again floating the idea that WNBA veterans are targeting Clark on the court because they’re jealous of all the attention she’s getting. For the record, real women’s basketball experts who regularly follow the game have asserted that this is a completely false narrative, including McNutt. In the debate with Smith, she explained that women are just as competitive as men and that passion for the sport comes with physicality.
“We’re still talking about competition, where you are allowed to get a little extra elbow in if you are competing and you do it in the parameters of the game,” she said. “The game is physical; Caitlin is helping to grow the league; these women understand that, but she cannot be babied as a rookie!”
Source: It Took a Black Woman to Finally Silence Stephen A. Smith, But It Didn’t Last Long
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