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"Women can't kick a football as well as men." (Original Post) edbermac Nov 2020 OP
No thanks MustLoveBeagles Nov 2020 #1
Cause they know they have little dicks. Volaris Nov 2020 #12
Her coach was fired the day after she kicked. Sneederbunk Nov 2020 #2
That had nothing to do with her obamanut2012 Nov 2020 #4
Why? MustLoveBeagles Nov 2020 #5
Lost 41-0, eight straight losses obamanut2012 Nov 2020 #21
And? Ferrets are Cool Nov 2020 #17
That being relevant how...? LanternWaste Nov 2020 #22
And you follow this douche? cwydro Nov 2020 #3
No I don't follow him. edbermac Nov 2020 #14
Can't Grow A Beard? RobinA Nov 2020 #32
I think that squib kick down the sideline is what they told her to do. Jeebo Nov 2020 #6
Too bad they didn't let her kick away TheFarseer Nov 2020 #15
Totally Agree ProfessorGAC Nov 2020 #18
Same, I really wanted her to nail a scoring kick obamanut2012 Nov 2020 #23
My understanding is they told her to squib because haele Nov 2020 #33
That makes sense, that they didn't want her to try to tackle a kick returner. Jeebo Nov 2020 #34
to be fair if they were 0 and 8 and in the process of losing 41 to 0 dsc Nov 2020 #35
Yeah, there's always some slack-muscled loser moaning that woman can't do things Aristus Nov 2020 #7
I'll take a pass on that. I don't give a shite about some rando incel on Twitter. n/t demmiblue Nov 2020 #8
He is one of those right wing never been laid woman redstatebluegirl Nov 2020 #9
This insignificant dweeb boasts in his Twitter profile of having a webcast, Denzil_DC Nov 2020 #10
Yeah. cwydro Nov 2020 #27
Reminds me of a dickhead I heard at our American Legion...... a kennedy Nov 2020 #11
I retired after 30 years in the Navy as a "Mustang Officer" maxrandb Nov 2020 #20
Navy Second Class from 79 to 83 bluecollar2 Nov 2020 #36
This message was self-deleted by its author CatLady78 Nov 2020 #13
She said girls can do anything they set their mind to, but... Towlie Nov 2020 #16
Another Example: Golf ProfessorGAC Nov 2020 #19
Two years before Title IX, I made the boys soccer team as a fullback. haele Nov 2020 #37
Wow, this incel chud sounds like a real winner. keep_left Nov 2020 #24
He's just a troll BGBD Nov 2020 #25
That account has pure troll farm written all over it. JDC Nov 2020 #26
Boy someone got rejected at high school a lot brettdale Nov 2020 #28
The best female kicker is not worse than the worst male kicker krispos42 Nov 2020 #29
This says a lot more about him than it does about her. smirkymonkey Nov 2020 #30
He's right KentuckyWoman Nov 2020 #31

MustLoveBeagles

(11,583 posts)
1. No thanks
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:29 PM
Nov 2020

I don't want to see a bunch of whiney incels agreeing with him. Why are so many Republican men angry douchbags?

obamanut2012

(26,047 posts)
4. That had nothing to do with her
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:34 PM
Nov 2020

It had to do with him being a shitty coach, and Vandy losing sooo much.

They are lucky they had her, since their special teams have been destroyed by CV19.

obamanut2012

(26,047 posts)
21. Lost 41-0, eight straight losses
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 06:02 PM
Nov 2020

Fuller had a nice squib kick, and did her job when no one else was available to do it for Vandy.

Yeah, the coach was fired because he sucks, and CV19 had decimated the team. A woman kicker had nothing to do with it, no matter what that poster is implying.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
3. And you follow this douche?
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:34 PM
Nov 2020

“You can’t grow a beard.” Lmao, and the douche can’t have a baby either.

Jeebo

(2,021 posts)
6. I think that squib kick down the sideline is what they told her to do.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:36 PM
Nov 2020

She did exactly what she was supposed to.

I am disappointed she didn't get to kick an extra point or field goal.

And yes, I was rooting for her to do well.

-- Ron

TheFarseer

(9,317 posts)
15. Too bad they didn't let her kick away
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:51 PM
Nov 2020

Let’s see what she’s got, right? Speaking as a football fan, it almost always backfires doing a squib kick or pooch kick. Also too bad Vandy sucks so much she never got a chance to kick a FG or PAT

ProfessorGAC

(64,857 posts)
18. Totally Agree
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 05:37 PM
Nov 2020

That was what the coach directed.
I agree on the FG or PAT thing, too.
What would make it super cool is that she would have ended up on the NCAA all-time scoring list. Even if it was the only 1 point, she'd be in the book.

obamanut2012

(26,047 posts)
23. Same, I really wanted her to nail a scoring kick
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 06:04 PM
Nov 2020

But, Vandy is too bad this year.

She had a nice squib kick.

haele

(12,640 posts)
33. My understanding is they told her to squib because
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 11:50 PM
Nov 2020

They didn't want her to get tackled nor did they want her to have to tackle a member of the opposing team in the event the kick was returned for significant yardage.

But she apparently told the team at half-time that she noticed the difference between her SEC championship soccer team and the football team is that no one on the football team was encouraging each other, there was no cheering when someone did well, and she had never seen such a glum, passive bench in her athletic career.

Soon after, the coach was fired.

I think she would be great for field goals, especially if they were worried about her safety. Too bad the offense never got close enough for her to show what she could do.

Haele

Jeebo

(2,021 posts)
34. That makes sense, that they didn't want her to try to tackle a kick returner.
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 01:36 AM
Nov 2020

That would explain why she immediately started walking off the field after the kick.

-- Ron

dsc

(52,152 posts)
35. to be fair if they were 0 and 8 and in the process of losing 41 to 0
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 08:43 AM
Nov 2020

it is no surprise they were glum.

Aristus

(66,294 posts)
7. Yeah, there's always some slack-muscled loser moaning that woman can't do things
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:37 PM
Nov 2020

as well as men.

When the first women earned their way into the ranks of the Army's tank crews, including the first female officer and tank commander, a few years ago, there was some catastrophic outrage on Facebook pages devoted to tankers. Howling cries of "SJW politically-correct garbage!!!1!1!"

Because they couldn't fathom the reality that the military really is a meritocracy. It does the Armored Corps no good to put people in the country's tanks who aren't up for the job just for the sake of public approbation. So, although these women earned their place in the turret, some idiots couldn't accept that and convinced themselves that the Army lowered its standards.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
9. He is one of those right wing never been laid woman
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:40 PM
Nov 2020

haters. Anti feminist junk all over his twitter feed. I dare this asshole to "experience" childbirth. May Trump rot in hell for giving these lowlifes a voice.

Denzil_DC

(7,222 posts)
10. This insignificant dweeb boasts in his Twitter profile of having a webcast,
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:43 PM
Nov 2020

a blog and a YouTube presence, proclaims "I teach women how to behave, and help men be patriarchs", has all of 1,673 Twitter followers, and is being severely ratioed and roasted in the responses to his tweet.

Easiest mute I ever made (not important enough to block). His account may be a parody, but if this is its standard, I won't miss much.

a kennedy

(29,618 posts)
11. Reminds me of a dickhead I heard at our American Legion......
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:43 PM
Nov 2020

“Oh yah, women in the military, so glad I was in the military when there WERN’T ANY WOMEN IN THE MILITARY”. He was the head guy of the Legion!!!!! Ugh. I wanted to slap him.

maxrandb

(15,298 posts)
20. I retired after 30 years in the Navy as a "Mustang Officer"
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 05:51 PM
Nov 2020

I had folks bitching about women on combatant ships. Most of the complaints were that if they got pregnant they could get out of sea duty, as if pregnancy would be something you did to just get out of work.

Seemed like every week I was losing male Sailors because they blew out their knee, fell off a ladder cleaning gutters, or my personal favorite, driving up to the gate stinking drunk.

I lost way more work hours for those reasons, and the women who worked for me tended to be smarter, harder working, innovative and much less likely to have disciplinary issues.

Any veteran who is against women in the military has never worked with them.

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
36. Navy Second Class from 79 to 83
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 08:51 AM
Nov 2020

Completely agree with you.

The Navy had just begun the process of integrating women into a number of the sea- going rate ratings during my four years.

Today's Navy is a better place as a result.

Response to edbermac (Original post)

Towlie

(5,322 posts)
16. She said girls can do anything they set their mind to, but...
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 04:56 PM
Nov 2020

 
?

... girls don't generally set their minds to growing beards.

And if, for example, men are better tennis players than women, that doesn't mean Serena Williams can't kick your butt. It's a matter of a pair of standard normal distributions with averages that are different, yet the curves still overlap.

ProfessorGAC

(64,857 posts)
19. Another Example: Golf
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 05:49 PM
Nov 2020

As great as Anika was, she had zero chance in a PGA event. She knew it, but wanted to give it one shot. She didn't make the cut, and said there'd be no second try.
But, she was arguably the best woman player ever.
That said, the best player I was on the course with was Danielle Ammacapane. She was around 30 at the time and I played in her group at an LPGA event.
The two of us played blue tees. Another guy white, and a woman amateur played the red tees.
I played well, and shot a 2 under 70.
She shot a 68 and spent 75% of the round giving tips and lessons to the other 2 people.
She was barely focusing on her game & shot 4 under.
I know she would have, over 4 rounds, beaten every good golfer I've ever known.
Against most 12 handicaps, she could take 6 iron, wedge, and a putter and beat them by 10 strokes, easy.
Could she handle herself with Tiger? No. But, then hardly anybody could.
She was superb at every aspect of the game. I enjoyed that day immensely.

haele

(12,640 posts)
37. Two years before Title IX, I made the boys soccer team as a fullback.
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 09:47 AM
Nov 2020

Not because I could kick farther or was faster than boys my age - and I was a wee thing back then, the lightest person on the team.
It was because I had field presence- I knew where everyone on the field was or would be from wherever I was, and I had more control on my clearing kicks, even when I was making a sliding tackle. I could also jump higher than most of the boys and land well.
I could engage with an opposing player, get the ball away from him, and clear it exactly where I wanted it to go before he usually knew what was happening; made four assist before I was intentionally fouled hard enough to break my ankle and end my season. And yes, it did affect the way the team played from then on; we never scored right off a fullback clear after that. I may have been smaller, slower, and just a girl, but we had a few more scores on average against us after I left.

So I know exactly why she said what she said.

Stupid boys with their stupid pride.

Haele

keep_left

(1,780 posts)
24. Wow, this incel chud sounds like a real winner.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 06:16 PM
Nov 2020

"I teach women how to behave, and help men be patriarchs. Make Society Great Again podcast host. Mostly on YouTube and my blog."

Wow, he can type his rants into Wordpress! What talent! (He can't even be bothered to remove the "Generated Homepage" tags from whatever Wordpress template he's using. Learn To Code, bucko!). He takes advantage of giant Internet companies to get a free platform! (Not for long...YouTube is banhammer-happy with chuds). And he has a podcast! (Another undeserved free platform).

Here's the kicker (no pun intended): "...having been suspended from medical school...". He blames lesbian feminists (of course). See his blog FFI.




Yeah, this guy's a real catch, ladies. An even lower-rent ersatz Roosh V.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
29. The best female kicker is not worse than the worst male kicker
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 07:41 PM
Nov 2020

So... If she can make the yardage, then let her kick

KentuckyWoman

(6,679 posts)
31. He's right
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 07:54 PM
Nov 2020

Her accuracy rate is better than the men.

She doesn't kick as good as a man. She kicks better.

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