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Brittney Griner
Dec. 9th, 2022 04:08 pm
Am I the only person on the face of this planet to have zero fucking sympathy for Brittney Griner? This is one of the most famous women in her sport, who has acclaim, records, Olympic gold medals, enough money to live a perfectly cushy life. And yet year after year, she went to play basketball in Russia because they paid her well. Apparently she could ignore everything going on in Russia - the oppression of journalists, the murder and jailing of Putin's political opponents, the invasion of Ukraine - all because she was given enough money to ignore it.
This woman's a lesbian, openly so, she's married to a woman. And yet she cheerfully went to Russia every year, with not a care for the ever-worsening Russian treatment of gay people, the awful situations that her own people were being forced into there, because she was rich and famous enough not to care - those laws didn't matter to her and she was being well paid.
She only gave a shit about Russian oppression when suddenly it DID happen to her, and she spent nine months in a Russian jail for something that isn't a crime where she lives. And then the whole American media and even some of the international media's all upset about poor Brittney Griner; we have to get out her out of there, we have to exert all the diplomatic pressure in the world to get her back.
Well now she's back. And in exchange for this one stupid, selfish woman, an utter scumbag gets to walk free. There are people rotting in Russian jails who are worth fifty Brittney Griners, but the media doesn't seem to give a shit about too many of them.
Brittney Griner made her own choices, in full knowledge of the kind of country she was willing to patronise, and frankly I think she damn well deserved to be left there. But now she's out, she'd better give a whole lot of her money, including every cent she makes from selling her story, to Ukraine or Russian LGBT organisations - the people who really deserve the sympathy.
This woman's a lesbian, openly so, she's married to a woman. And yet she cheerfully went to Russia every year, with not a care for the ever-worsening Russian treatment of gay people, the awful situations that her own people were being forced into there, because she was rich and famous enough not to care - those laws didn't matter to her and she was being well paid.
She only gave a shit about Russian oppression when suddenly it DID happen to her, and she spent nine months in a Russian jail for something that isn't a crime where she lives. And then the whole American media and even some of the international media's all upset about poor Brittney Griner; we have to get out her out of there, we have to exert all the diplomatic pressure in the world to get her back.
Well now she's back. And in exchange for this one stupid, selfish woman, an utter scumbag gets to walk free. There are people rotting in Russian jails who are worth fifty Brittney Griners, but the media doesn't seem to give a shit about too many of them.
Brittney Griner made her own choices, in full knowledge of the kind of country she was willing to patronise, and frankly I think she damn well deserved to be left there. But now she's out, she'd better give a whole lot of her money, including every cent she makes from selling her story, to Ukraine or Russian LGBT organisations - the people who really deserve the sympathy.
