It will be interesting to see how national media covers this story:
Natasha Howard, All-Star for WNBA's Seattle Storm, accused of physically threatening and abusing her wife, including with a knife. https://t.co/XmABwu3n0a
The Seattle Storm host the New York Liberty 4 pm PST on Sunday, and as of now, no action has been taken by the team. This is a deeply disturbing allegation and doesn't yet seem to be getting much media attention (not even on front page of https://t.co/zd7OlBdOU7 ).
For those unaware, this is the 2nd domestic violence allegation in the WNBA in the last three months.
In late April, the LA Sparks' Riquna Williams was arrested for assaulting her ex partner. (Williams has played in 14 of the team's 15 games this year.)https://t.co/AGAB0POnan
Meanwhile, the @seattlestorm haven't yet decided if Natasha Howard will play tonight after being accused of DV by her wife. The WNBA is "in the process of gathering information."
Media didn't allow @Chiefs to "gather info" re: Tyreek Hill case and didn't care about due process. https://t.co/5Nh2spJdxY
Looks like it's being covered pretty thoroughly relative to Tyreek considering the profile of the player. Not sure what double standard you're seeing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
Who in their right mind would demand equal pay for the wnba? The demand for women to be paid more from uswnt is because they are actually creating revenue. A lot of it.
Ugh, they are getting paid well. The breakdown was almost 300k per player for the tournament.
The ladies also get a yearly salary that the men don't and higher percentage of tournament winnings. Then the league pays them a bonus for playing in leagues.
The difference is the tournaments are on different levels. Men's dwarfs it.
They also are cherry picking stats, the years posted for generating a million more dollars include two world cups and an Olympics. Men had the Olympics.
This shit is laughable, if they want more money they actually need to create more revenue and sell tickets that are more than free to 9 dollars. [Reply]
Putting aside the personal/family carnage of those involved this is not a good development for Tyreek. If they suspend her for a year there will be plenty of people who conflate this with Tyreek and will yell double-standard if he doesn’t get the same punishment. [Reply]
Originally Posted by FringeNC:
Didn't know that. Funny. Female on male domestic is also way more common that you'd think.
Well as one would expect men simply have a far higher potential to harm than women do. Plus when it comes to hyper violent lunatics, men dominate that field on the extreme end. So the worst cases are usually men harming women.
I've never struck a woman, but I'm 100% confident I could 1 punch KO all but one of my ex's.
She was very tall. Easily 6-3. Head like a St. Bernard. She was harmless though. Totally sweet girl. [Reply]
