This is a repost...not because I'm being lazy (at least I don't think so) but because it got missed in the shuffle and I'd really like to hear what people have to say about it.

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Women shouldn’t be dunking?........Are you kidding me!


I a woman and I play Basketball. I can even play better than most of my male counter parts. I played in High School and then in College. My coach told me that I was a great, versatile player and could do also anything I wanted to with a ball. I even played against the men’s team in practice to help them with their defense. The men’s coach even told me that if they didn’t have a women team he would have loved to have had me on his team. I might not have started but I definitely would have played.

Basically the only thing that I couldn’t do with the a basketball was dunk. I’m 5’7” so that’s not so much of a surprise but that is the only limitation that is on the women’s game as a whole. YES, men can dunk far more easily because pound for pound they have more muscle mass. So, that’s what helps the Nate Robinson’s and Allen Iverson’s to get up there. The only thing that will get us (women) up there is our height. But the likes of Nickie Teasly, Ivy Latta and Sheryl Whoops have shown that we can do everything else just as well if not more efficient.

And wow, we have women player’s hear and there that can dunk. Not all have the publicity surrounding them like say a Candace Parker but all with the ability to SLAM the ball directly into the rim. I’m just happy that we are one step closer to having a ‘complete’ game but then you have idiots like Jason Whitlock who are just hater who want to talk crap just because they have a mike (or because he is a misogynist who can’t stand to see the gaps between the sexes closing).

In an article that he recently wrote named, “Women Shouldn’t be dunking” he had the nerve to say, and I quote, “Well, I guess that explains why, when Parker laid the ball in the basket and grabbed the rim afterward twice in Tennessee's rout of Army in the NCAA Tournament, it was hailed as man-walking-on-the-moon news in the sports world. Parker was the first woman to (almost) dunk twice in a college game.”

He went on to say, “What's next? First women's hooper to cover her entire body in prison tattoos? WNBA players investigated for running up huge tabs in the champagne room of the Gold Club? Sue Bird strangles her coach at practice? Lisa Leslie attacks beer-tossing empty seat, sparks nasty melee between players and bored arena ushers?...............Making a big deal of Parker's slam lay-ins is an insult to women's college basketball, and potentially damaging to the game. We're promoting the very act that is credited with ruining men's basketball, and we're telling female players the quickest way to get on "SportsCenter" and become a star is by dunking the basketball………The game deserves better…………Sports fans are not ignoring women's college basketball because the games are no good. We're ignoring it because the game has refused to properly define itself and mark its own territory. No one wants to see women play the game the way that men do. Hell, did you miss the Team USA fiasco? A lot of Americans don't want to see men play the game the way men do.”

Mr. Whitlock, maybe if you didn’t weight about 320 at about 6’2’ you would be able to dunk too. But until you drop about 120 pounds don’t hate on people with ability. The woman player you see today fell in love with the basketball of the present. Not just Kobe and Lebron but the Michael and Dominique that you would probably defend to you death. We were there when Vince put his arm in the hoop…we were there to see Shaq throw an ally-oop to Kobe. Dunking and flying through the air is in the sprit and at the very heart of the game. You are just mad that we are just beginning to get a taste that only men have been privileged to.

Don’t you realize that you article does nothing but ignite a time bomb that will sooner or later widen the gap the we female ball player have fought so hard to close. And we are trying to close it not just for us but for young girls out here on the ball courts waiting to get a chance to play…and some BOY is telling her, “Girls can’t play. Not like we can.”

Candace, dunk 3 times next time, girl!!!!

What are your thoughts? Do you think woman should dunk in games? What do you think was his motive for writing this article? Now that women CAN dunk, what else do you think needs to be done to take women basketball closer to the next level?

My thoughts is Money….but that’s a-whole-nother Blog.

To Blog or to Myspace? .....That’s my question.


Well family, in my pursuit of happiness and contacts I embarked into the Blog here at Blogger.com about 6 months ago. And it’s been great so far; although my attention span comes and goes from time to time I love to spend time posting new blogs, when I can, and reading all of yours. But, like every good marriage there comes a time when you and your loyalties are tested; that time has come. There is another trying to come in between us, and her name is Myspace.

You know her, the networking whore that she is. Coming in with her fancy backgrounds and pictures and friends… How’s a woman supposed to be faithful with all that waving in your face. Ordinary people and Celebs all in the same place…who can resist. So…I hit it…twice. That’s right I have two pages; one for business, one for pleasure. And it’s good too; you should see all the people I’ve met and sh@t I’m learning about designing my page.

So, now I have a dilemma. Do I try to juggle both the women…I mean spaces in my life…do I stay home with my first love (or would my first love be Black Planet)…Or, do I with my Miss New Booty, Myspace, and start blogging there (like people go there to blog).


Like they say, “Ain’t nothing better than p@ssy…except some new p@ssy!”


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