2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

He seems like he’s got some problems. 

Penning seems like an idiot who will be a first round bust.

Every major draft bust in Eagles history had a training camp where the last gasp hype train was unleashed.

8 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

He seems like he’s got some problems. 

That's a very different clip with a very different villain.   

2 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

She was a She. Then she decided to be a They. And like 2 days ago she said she is feeling more feminine and wants to be a She again.

 

Its one thing to choose from an ever growing buffet of old, and newly created sexuality types, and expect people to keep up. I dont even know what options are out there at this point. As tough as it is to keep up, now people are going to be bouncing around sampling a little of this, little of that...

How the hell are we ever supposed to know how to refer to someone?

It is a gender designation, not a sexuality designation. Just trying to help.

4 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Every major draft bust in Eagles history had a training camp where the last gasp hype train was unleashed.

Not all of them.  Remember Bernard Williams?  Bruce Walker?  Leonard Renfro?

9 minutes ago, Next_Up said:

It is a gender designation, not a sexuality designation. Just trying to help.

Yeah... that muddied the waters further. Thanks!

8 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Yeah... that muddied the waters further. Thanks!

You don’t understand the difference between gender and sex?

2 hours ago, bpac55 said:

It's actually really scary how this 1-2% of culture has taken over and changed a lot of what's acceptable and what they expect the rest of us to follow.  For the first time ever, I said ladies first the other day and got nervous that I may have misgendered a person.  It's all lock step with the birthing persons and people who menstruate stuff.  Definitions being changed left and right. 

It is not 1-2% of people. It is estimated that anywhere from 4 to 10 percent of the US population is gay: https://news.gallup.com/poll/259571/americans-greatly-overestimate-gay-population.aspx, 1.3 million adults report as transgender: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/.

It might be possible that a large group of people who have been marginalized by an ignorant (used in the literal sense and not as a pejorative) majority are simply asking to be recognized for who they are. Most cultures prior to becoming macro-cultures have many gender and sexuality designations. If you follow the history of the binary system, you will find that when people are not expendable, micro-cultures, there is much more tolerance and acceptance of difference, however, when a culture gets big, people do become disposable and the buckets used to manage them shrink.

In terms of being nervous in situations such as you described, in my experience, people who have been marginalized tend to be more forgiving of social miscues than those who have lived a life with a more entitled cultural status. It does get nonsensical at some point (birthing persons, IMO) but we live in a culture in which gay people still get beat up or murdered and in which the suicide attempt rate from transgender youth is around 40%. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/

I only share this because a lack of understanding of the true health and safety issues can result in trivializing something that potentially effects a significant number of your fellow citizens.

 

* this post was edited based on feedback from Iggles_Phan

54 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Lmao 

I like it. F this soft camp nonsense.

36 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

He seems like he’s got some problems.

If Jon Runyan was doing it we would love it.

NFL has gotten soft.

1 hour ago, DEagle7 said:

And thus the birth of "Uno Ocho"...or not.

17 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Yeah... that muddied the waters further. Thanks!

I mean I hear you man but it’s the reality to roll with. You were a doctor I’m sure you’re capable of memorizing five terms or whatever there are now. If I misgender someone and they correct me I’ll go with what they correct me too. Don’t have energy to waste taking it deeper than that

4 minutes ago, Next_Up said:

It is not 1-2% of people. It is estimated that 1 in 4 people are gay: https://news.gallup.com/poll/259571/americans-greatly-overestimate-gay-population.aspx, 1.3 million adults report as transgender: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/.

It might be possible that a large group of people who have been marginalized by an ignorant (used in the literal sense and not as a pejorative) majority are simply asking to be recognized for who they are. Most cultures prior to becoming macro-cultures have many gender and sexuality designations. If you follow the history of the binary system, you will find that when people are not expendable, micro-cultures, there is much more tolerance and acceptance of difference, however, when a culture gets big, people do become disposable and the buckets used to manage them shrink.

In terms of being nervous in situations such as you described, in my experience, people who have been marginalized tend to be more forgiving of social miscues than those who have lived a life with a more entitled cultural status. It does get nonsensical at some point (birthing persons, IMO) but we live in a culture in which gay people still get beat up or murdered and in which the suicide attempt rate from transgender youth is around 40%. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/

I only share this because a lack of understanding of the true health and safety issues can result in trivializing something that potentially effects more than a quarter of your fellow citizens.

  Did you read the first two linked articles?

1 minute ago, Iggles_Phan said:

  Did you read the first two linked articles?

yes, that's offering objective and alternative references as balance and to not try and skew an argument. "potentially effects more than a quarter"

6 minutes ago, downundermike said:

If Jon Runyan was doing it we would love it.

NFL has gotten soft.

Soft, agree with.

But that feels like something dumb Barnett would do that we would flame him for. Runyan was tough as hell, but not dirty, mostly. 

2 minutes ago, Next_Up said:

yes, that's offering objective and alternative references as balance and to not try and skew an argument. "potentially effects more than a quarter"

Not sure you actually did.

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Americans' estimate of the proportion of gay people in the U.S. is more than five times Gallup's more encompassing 2017 estimate that 4.5% of Americans are LGBT, based on respondents' self-identification as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

 

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Thus, Gallup's methodology is not the only way to estimate the percentage of the population that is gay or lesbian. Still, all available estimates of the actual gay and lesbian population in the U.S. are far lower than what the public estimates, and no measurement procedure has produced any figures suggesting that more than one out of five Americans are gay or lesbian.

 

Football is so back.

 

 

I blame Eagles for not practicing 3 days in a row. 

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Not sure you actually did.

 

Gallop reports around 6%, the US census bureau is at 8%, in education the number used is 10% of the student population. I hope you got the point and I agree that I should edit the post so that the message doesn't get lost in the numbers. Thank you

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

I would be willing to bet there is an owner out there that has place a bigger bet than Ridley did. I understand integrity of the game but the punishment exceeds the crime on that one.  

I bet there's 32 owners/ownership teams that made bigger bets than $1500 on their football teams.

34 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

You don’t understand the difference between gender and sex?

The word you're looking for is sexuality/preference.

4 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

The word you're looking for is sexuality/preference.

Kindergarten cop taught me everything i know about anatomy 

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

He seems like he’s got some problems. 

Eh nothing I’ve seen looks that bad. As a lineman it’s good to have an edge. I feel like I’m none of the shots he’s looked outrageously dirty. Maybe he’s just a D hole and no one likes him. 

5 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

Negotiation ploy. Maybe as little as to get Watson to accept Robinson’s ruling. Maybe to try to get more. But with the Kraft, Snyder and Jones issues out there, actually going forward makes no sense for the NFL. They really don’t want to roll the dice with NY choice of law (CBA has a choice of law clause that designates NY state law) in front of a NY judge.  They deliver their first proposal indirectly through their shrill mainly for publicity purposes to,show the NFL supports the "victims”. Money?  What a joke.  NFL had to approve his contract. 

4 hours ago, justrelax said:

The cost analysis is much more than that. Law suits are often weaponised. Wealthy entities can and do crush opponents under the sheer weight of legal expenses, can drag out cases for years until their opponents concede because they can no longer meet the costs. It's one thing if you bring suit, quite another if one is brought against you.

Works both ways now, JR.  Litigation financing and even investment in litigation. Frankly, I found defendants more willing to cut bait and costs than large plaintiff firms. Buzbee doesn’t lack assets. If plaintiff litigation was a business (and in a way, through sharing information, they are), they dwarf most industries, especially casualty insurers, in America.  

Some veteran leadership out of mcleod. Showing the youngins what’s up