Tag Archive | violence against women
Links Post: Everything That’s Been Sitting in our Inbox Edition
Sometimes we save up articles for a links post and then forget to do one. Sometimes there are news items we discuss writing about but don’t get around to it. Sometimes we’re just busy. Or lazy. This edition of the Links Post is the result of all four. SNY Anchor Kirk Giminez Tweets, Then Deletes [...]
Links Post: Superbowl Round-Up
Friends, America’s favorite holiday is upon us: it’s Super Bowl weekend. We at Bloomer Girls will be watching the big game among friends and a ridiculous amount of Baltimore-, San Francisco- and New Orleans-themed food at Lydia’s house. Whether you’ll be watching or avoiding, whether you have a horse in this race or you’re watching [...]
Happy New Year Links Post!
Happy New Year to all our readers! We took some time off around the holiday season, but we’re ready to ring in 2013 with more posts. Here’s hoping the new year brings with it more equality for female sports fans and reporters, increased success for female athletes and women’s professional sports teams, and greater respect [...]
What Jovan Belcher and Kasandra Perkins Tells Us About CTE and Domestic Violence, If Anything
Over the weekend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot Kasandra Perkins — his girlfriend and the mother of his 3-month old daughter — and then went to the parking lot of Arrowhead Stadium (where the Chiefs play) and, in front of the team’s general manager and head coach, shot himself. This horrifying tragedy raises [...]
Weekend Links Post
As we often do on Fridays, here are some links to articles we’ve found particularly interesting this week: Two updates on the Montana football rape cases we’ve previously discussed here: at Title IX blog, they’re discussing how the Department of Justice has started an investigation into how Missoula, Montana has handled rape and sexual assault [...]
Junior Seau’s Death is a Feminist Issue
In news that deeply saddened the football and sports communities last week, linebacker Junior Seau killed himself by gunshot wound to the chest. He was just 43 years-old and had an illustrious 20-season career. The significance of the decision to shoot himself in the chest is not lost on those privy to a devastating problem across all contact sports: players [...]
Montana Football Has a Sexual Assault Problem
The Big Lead reported in January that the University of Montana has been investigating five sexual assault cases, two of which involve players on the football team. The story summarizes: “Incidents suggest a disturbing pattern of normal underreporting the crime, combined with poor handling by university officials and special treatment for football players.” The report describes [...]
Bad Behavior on the Tampa Bay Rays
After Kentucky’s decisive victory over Kansas in the men’s finals, and with the women’s finals tonight, March Madness nears its conclusion. This year, the end coincides with one of the greatest days of the year: baseball’s Opening Day. Meaningful baseball will be played tomorrow, and to us here at Bloomer Girls, it feels like Christmas Eve [...]
#kuboobs Fouls Out
Tonight is the NCAA Men’s Championship game, featuring the University of Kansas (“KU”) against The University of Kentucky (“UK”, and no, that’s not going to be confusing at all, why do you ask?) Last week, my friend Paige, a KU alum and self-avowed college sports-ambivalent observer, sent me a link to an article, asking if [...]
Tim Tebow Plays in New York Now
Well, as of last week, controversial NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is a New York Jet, and the thought of him gracing the back pages of the Post and Daily News every day makes me none too pleased. Tebow was signed as the Jets’ back-up quarterback; earlier this off-season the Jets signed their starting quarterback, Mark Sanchez, to a three-year [...]
