Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Message boards on sports sites

Okay, it's not exactly devolution media - it's merely a showcase for the de-evolved.

Case in point, the news article on the death of Brandon Everage, "a safety on Oklahoma's national football championship team." He drowned while swimming in a river in Texas.

There are only 2 pages worth of comments so far, but most of them focus on the "bad news" that this is for Oklahoma, and only a relatively few confine themselves to "So sad, RIP, prayers to family."

Of course you can tell the difference between a male athlete being injured or dying and a female athlete doing so. For female athletes, the poster always has something to say about how pretty she is, or if she isn't pretty (or if he doesn't think she's pretty), then they're like - why do we even care about this woman?

For the male athlete, it's only about how good a player he was perceived to be.

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