Samantha Bee's takedown of sexism from Seattle sports fans

[pnwmom]

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11689472/samantha-bee-full-frontal-seattle-sonics-sexism-council

It's been a rough month for the women of the Seattle City Council. They've gotten vicious online abuse from trolls inviting "those BITCHES" to "BURN IN HELL," or speculating that their "cycles must have synced up."

What did they do to deserve this, asked Samantha Bee on Monday night's Full Frontal? They dared to vote down a proposal for a new sports arena in Seattle.

The vote against the proposed arena was 5 to 4, split down the gender line. The women council members had good reasons for voting against the arena, Bee said. It would be built right on the Port of Seattle, which would threaten industrial and maritime jobs. But that didn't stop Sonics fans and other haters from bombarding the women with misogynistic abuse online.

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[pansypoo53219]

1. guess they watch john oliver. just say no to public financed stadiums. they are NOT DISPOSABLE.

or fiscally smart.

[pnwmom]

2. Fifteen years after we BLEW UP the Kingdome we finally finished paying for it.

At the same time, we were paying for the new one. So over those fifteen years we were paying for 2 football stadiums.

And who knows how long we'll even have a team. A city can build a brand new, expensive stadium and a few years later the team can just leave for another city.

What a racket.