as i was running on the treadmill this morning, i watched the press conference with the Rutger Women’s basketball team. as i’m sure you’ve heard by now (unless you’re living in a cave, afraid you’re going to be assaulted with more stories of anna nicole not to mention that annoying heather mills and her one leg), don imus said some nasty things about the RWBT, and then everybody leapt on him and he’s been apologizing, apparently, but he has not yet actually called the team itself to apologize, which you’d think if he was actually sorry he’d have done that first.
the women were very articulate and very tall. the team captain spoke, and another woman on the team spoke, and then they took lots and lots of questions from reporters and other people, and some of the questions were ok but some were kind of dumb; they asked them if they thought that presidential candidates should be on the don imus show. the team captain grinned and said she thought it was all about money and getting votes, and she didn’t say it was a stupid question, which was quite nice of her.
they were asked what programming the network should run instead of imus’ show for the next two weeks while he’s suspended. the captain said that since she wasn’t a programming executive, she didn’t know, but she thought they’d probably think of something. she did say it would be good if they ran some highlights of the team’s games, which i thought was an obvious and excellent idea.
if i am reincarnated, i’d like to be a tall basketball player.
even though don imus appears to be a man who can’t seem to ever shut his stupid mouth, i do think at least he put the rutger women’s basketball team in the spotlight. the women all kept talking about the need for women’s voices to be heard; not just african-american women, they said, but all women. and i thought, why aren’t there more articles and things on tv about women’s sports? but maybe there are some, but i just never read them. but i feel that’s not true. even though i don’t generally follow sports, i do sort of hear about it, and it’s usually mostly the men the men the men.
the women on the team talked about the fact that even though things are supposed to be equal between men and women, they aren’t, and it’d be nice if they were.
things to think about, while running to nowhere.
ok then,
tuesday grace.