{"id":125915,"date":"2024-04-01T23:28:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T23:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/los-angeles-times-deeply-offensive-column-about-lsu-womens-team\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T23:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T23:28:28","slug":"los-angeles-times-deeply-offensive-column-about-lsu-womens-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/los-angeles-times-deeply-offensive-column-about-lsu-womens-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Times &#8220;Deeply Offensive&#8221; Column About LSU Women&#8217;s Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>UPDATED with assertion:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/los-angeles-times\/\" id=\"auto-tag_los-angeles-times\" data-tag=\"los-angeles-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> columnist Ben Bolch, who got here beneath widespread fireplace for a column concerning the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lsu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lsu\" data-tag=\"lsu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LSU<\/a>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ucla\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ucla\" data-tag=\"ucla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCLA<\/a> Women\u2019s NCAA event matchup during which he known as the Lady Tigers  \u201cdirty debutantes\u201d and known as them \u201cvillains,\u201d whereas calling the Bruins \u201cmilk and cookies,\u201d has apologized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBloch says that he \u201cfailed miserably in my choice of words,\u201d admitting that he \u201ctried to be clever in my phrasing about one team\u2019s attitude, using alliteration while not understanding the deeply offensive connotation or associations.\u201d (See LSU ladies\u2019s basketball coach <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kim-mulkey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kim-mulkey\" data-tag=\"kim-mulkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Mulkey<\/a>\u2018s level on that beneath.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe goes on to put in writing that whereas he didn&#8217;t intend to be hurtful, \u201cthe words I used were wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>PREVIOUSLY on Sunday:<\/strong> A Los Angeles Times column criticized as \u201csexist\u201d by LSU ladies\u2019s basketball coach Kim Mulkey was modified on-line by the newspaper early this morning as a result of it \u201cdid not meet Times editorial standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLSU beat UCLA 78-69 on Saturday to advance within the Women\u2019s NCAA event. Before the sport, columnist Ben Bolch wrote that the Lady Tigers had been \u201cdirty debutantes\u201d and known as them \u201cvillains,\u201d whereas calling the Bruins \u201cmilk and cookies.\u201d He known as the matchup \u201cgood versus evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBolch\u2019s 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 \u201cvillains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe one thing I\u2019m not going to let you do, I\u2019m 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\u2019t even know it,\u201d Mulkey stated Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt 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\u2019m not going to let you talk about 18-to-21-year-old kids in that tone.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe LSU coach has already been in a public feud with the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, which printed a profile of her final week that Mulkey known as  a \u201chit piece.\u201d She threatened to sue for defamation previous to its publication. The profile particulars her previous relationships together with her household and gamers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe story stated Mulkey clashed with gamers \u201cabout their appearances and displays of their sexuality,\u201d whereas her attorneys stated within the piece that she didn&#8217;t deal with homosexual gamers \u201cmore harshly or differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] UPDATED with assertion: Los Angeles Times columnist Ben Bolch, who got here beneath widespread fireplace for a column concerning the LSU\u2013UCLA Women\u2019s NCAA event matchup during which he known as the Lady Tigers \u201cdirty debutantes\u201d and known as them \u201cvillains,\u201d whereas calling the Bruins \u201cmilk and cookies,\u201d has apologized. Bloch says that he \u201cfailed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}