A
college baseball player tweeted his displeasure this week over the news Disney
planned to do a movie on Mo’ne Davis by referring to the 13-year old pitcher as
“that slut [who] got rocked by Nevada” in the Little League World Series last
summer. When said writer got booted off
his team, Davis came to his defense. “He
made one dumb mistake,” she emailed the school president in support of the oaf’s
reinstatement. “I’m sure he would go
back and change it if he could.” The
maturity points here go to Ms. Davis.
Clare
got the same kind of treatment playing baseball when she was eleven. Her team lined up for the after-game
handshake, during which one boy said, “Nice game, bitch.” I only found out well after the fact, or else
I would’ve been in a whole lot of faces.
If something like that happened now, I’d worry about the speaker needing
dental work. But, at the time, it nearly
crushed a child who merely wanted to play the game she loved. We really need to do better as parents.
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