It's been another horrible week for women, and sports isn't helping one bit
Bill Cosby is out of prison, not because he isn’t a rapist, but because of shoddy lawyering by a former district attorney in Pennsylvania. Britney Spears remains under a conservatorship, even as her father refuses to let her remove an IUD.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the state assembly in Missouri voted to ban funding for abortion providers, and the top court in Iowa reinstated a law that bars Planned Parenthood from running sex education programs in the state.
But at least sports can provide a respite from all of society’s hostility toward women, right? No, of course not. The toxicity in this segment of the culture is as out of control as ever.
Trevor Bauer, the reigning National League Cy Young winner and one of the worst human beings on Twitter, is being investigated for sexual assault. The case is serious enough that the alleged victim got a restraining order against Bauer, and The Athletic reported gruesome details from her court filing that led to the order being granted. The nature of her injuries, and Bauer’s alleged actions in crossing the line from consensual to non-consensual sexual acts, are harrowing — difficult to even read about, let alone imagine.
https://deadspin.com/it-s-been-another-horrible-week-for-women-and-sports-i-1847211237
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Yes, this is about sports, sort of, but it's about sports figures, not the games.
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