MarkDido: MarkDido: What a great role model for young girls.

I’ll say this.

I think these women succeed on the field because they are tougher, meaner, nastier, than the other teams. Being tougher is one of the things it takes to win. I have no doubt pro football players are like that on the field. Hoopsters the same on the court. Pete Rose was “Charlie Hustle” because he was like that on the diamond. And it’s not new. “Nice Guys Finish Last” (Leo Durocher) examines that throughout the history of baseball.

I want that in whatever team I follow – and that includes our military (and that’s why I am pissed at efforts to “transform” them into a kinder, gentler force.)

But almost universally we want that to stay on the field. We don’t want the “bad boy” in these players to leak out when they are off the field. And so we eschew the sports hero who has multiple arrests, or who can’t control his physicality when it comes to interacting with his family or friends. Tough guy has a tough-guy hobby raising fighting dogs or roosters? He’s mud in the eyes of society, and rightly so.

Or, at least, that’s how it used to be…

A new “woke” underbelly of society – bolstered and feted by “woke” media and “woke” politicians – embraces and extols these celebrities who spew vulgarity and hatred. It’s the “right” hatred, after all. SJW-approved hatred. Anti-righteousness hatred. Hatred borne of rebelliousness. And they ARE elevated as the new role models.

This will not end well for our society.