I posted the following on Facebook last night during Game 7 of the NBA Finals:
Watching a WNBA game right now. It’s awesome how these tall ladies hit almost every three-pointer. Huge crowd too. I don’t know why they say WNBA has trouble filling arenas.
I was hoping to conjure the image of a person who almost never watches basketball, flips on the TV, and finds the world’s best players (Indiana v. Oklahoma City) and then, due to all of the hype about the WNBA exhibiting the world’s most skilled players, imagining that it is a WNBA game. About six friends liked it and probably at least half of them are so disconnected from the world of pro sports that they imagined it to be in earnest.
Separately, who has something more interesting to say about the NBA final? Our kids were cruelly denied access to the final quarter due to it extending past their bedtime. I don’t think we missed anything, though, because the spread between the teams at the end of third quarter (the only one that we watched) seemed to be maintained.
Simultaneous to game 7 of the NBA finals, there was a regular season WNBA game between two weak teams (Connecticut and Golden State) that had the same attendance and similar three point percentages. Knowing that your primary entertainment is doing things you don’t enjoy and criticizing them, I assumed you were watching the WNBA game and tried to be critical even though the product and support was little different than the NBA.
What was the supposed joke? The NBA is little better than the WNBA? The WNBA sucks? look, I can make vapid social media posts, too?
The brilliant commercial minds at the WNBA scheduled a game to compete with the NBA final?
The average computer programmer Greenspun commenter has no idea the NBA finals are on, especially if the Celtics (MIT) & Warriors (Berkeley) aren’t involved.
This. And also you’re asking the wrong question. It’s quite funny, objectively, but many people might take it as a joke on WNBA and not the hype for WNBA. And, that, IMO, is because the “cognitive distance” between what you want to convey and what people understand or “want to” understand has been on the rise.
Futurama on women’s basketball:
https://youtu.be/sf0kDH8ejTE?t=98
some people prefer to watch giant lesbians play basketball. The WNBA also has the best feuds because women are biologically crueller than men.
https://babylonbee.com/news/technical-foul-wnba-players-use-caitlin-clarks-head-as-a-ball
> women are biologically crueller than men.
This is really interesting! Any readings? Thanks!
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http://realworlddivorce.com/
https://www.poetry.com/poem/33429/the-female-of-the-species
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2039&version=KJV
Thanks a lot! The Bible excerpt is very interesting! Though it looks like it is ‘against’ women (just like ‘Women in Science’ essay seems before reflection), if we look at it carefully, Joseph, who was merely a servant, ends up becoming a prison manager because of his master’s wife’s false allegations. The cruelty of his master’s wife was balanced by the Nature’s kindness!
What I see is not cruelty on her part, but a lack of understanding of men. It seems to me that the society of that time would have been cruel to her if Joseph had let others know of her behavior. So, she preempted that by flipping the narrative. Perhaps she didn’t understand that Joseph’s behavior wasn’t due to his ego but because of his detachment, and thought that he would spread unpleasant words about her. My two cents!
The other two texts I had come across before.
Joseph is complex story. Some commentators state that even the husband and master, Portiphar, did not belive his wife and send Joseph into Ancient Egyptian version of Club Fed prison to save his face. Also there are commentators who believe that her own daughter exposed her lies and Joseph later married her daughter (daughter of Poti Phera, chief priest of On, by memory, sounds too close to Potiphar)
OK, cool! So, these stories are not self-contained, which need to be reflected upon without needing any extra information? I thought they were like Zen stories.
No PG F, the stories are part of continued narrative, interdependent and constitute absolute minimum of a narrative. Hard to make sense without parallel information from oral tradition written down over decades 15 centuries later and extensive commentary on it, that took about 2 centuries to create starting same time when oral tradition was written down in middle antiquity.
OK! Thanks! When I read it independently it made sense to me, though.
You can read many things from i at different levels, for different situations. The tradition is to read it annually. There is even a book by an academic, that finds forecasts of many past and current events in it, with forecasts being statistically significantly not random.
OK, thanks!
Somewhat related:
I’m watching FIFA Club World Cup games and enjoying it immensely. We even went to Seattle Sounders – Botafogo game IRL.
Inter Miami even advanced to knock out stage! They are facing Paris Saint Germain though, so…
“Club World Cup” is different from “World Cup” because teams stay together instead of being randomly scrambled according to purported nationality? That does sound better.
I like Club World Cup more – it truly brings together interesting teams. Of course is still way less popular than national World Cup.