UPDATED with assertion: Los Angeles Times columnist Ben Bolch, who got here beneath widespread fireplace for a column concerning the LSU–UCLA Women’s NCAA event matchup during which he known as the Lady Tigers “dirty debutantes” and known as them “villains,” whereas calling the Bruins “milk and cookies,” has apologized.
Bloch says that he “failed miserably in my choice of words,” admitting that he “tried to be clever in my phrasing about one team’s attitude, using alliteration while not understanding the deeply offensive connotation or associations.” (See LSU ladies’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey‘s level on that beneath.)
He goes on to put in writing that whereas he didn’t intend to be hurtful, “the words I used were wrong.”
PREVIOUSLY on Sunday: A Los Angeles Times column criticized as “sexist” by LSU ladies’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey was modified on-line by the newspaper early this morning as a result of it “did not meet Times editorial standards.”
LSU beat UCLA 78-69 on Saturday to advance within the Women’s NCAA event. Before the sport, columnist Ben Bolch wrote that the Lady Tigers had been “dirty debutantes” and known as them “villains,” whereas calling the Bruins “milk and cookies.” He known as the matchup “good versus evil.”
Bolch’s column was up to date at 12:55 a.m. ET, with an replace discover inserted at 1:10 a.m. All of the phrases had been eliminated, although the headline nonetheless refers to “villains.”
“The one thing I’m not going to let you do, I’m not going to let you attack young people, and there were some things in this commentary, guys, that you should be offended by as women. It was so sexist, and they don’t even know it,” Mulkey stated Saturday.
“It was good versus evil in that game today. Evil? Called us dirty debutantes? Take your phone out right now and Google dirty debutantes and tell me what it says. Dirty debutantes? Are you kidding me? I’m not going to let you talk about 18-to-21-year-old kids in that tone.”
The LSU coach has already been in a public feud with the Washington Post, which printed a profile of her final week that Mulkey known as a “hit piece.” She threatened to sue for defamation previous to its publication. The profile particulars her previous relationships together with her household and gamers.
The story stated Mulkey clashed with gamers “about their appearances and displays of their sexuality,” whereas her attorneys stated within the piece that she didn’t deal with homosexual gamers “more harshly or differently.”