You "Fight Like A Girl"

[JustKelli]

'Fight Like A Girl' Legal Drama From ‘Bull’ Duo & Kapital Entertainment In Works At ABC

By*Nellie Andreeva

ABC has put in development Fight Like A Girl,a legal drama from Bull co-executive producers Nichole Millard and Kathryn Price, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios.

Written by Millard and Price, in*Fight Like A Girl,*when the old boy’s club isn’t extending an invitation, when failing upward isn’t an option, when you have to take a blowtorch to the glass ceiling, you learn to FIGHT LIKE A GIRL. This is a TV series that explores what that phrase means today through the lens of two female trial attorneys who fight with each other as much as they fight for their clients.

Millard and Price executive produce with Aaron Kaplan and Dana Honor for Kapital Entertainment. CBS TV Studios is the studio.

Millard and Price, who are both attorneys, are co-executive producers on CBS procedural legal drama series*Bull, which is going into its fourth season this fall. The duo, who have been best friends for over two decades, previously created another legal drama,*Guilt, which aired for one season on Freeform.*

[JustKelli]

With any luck this will be the dagger to your heart you POS Dana White...

Suddenly, knucklehead culture has lost any charm it once might have had

For the past few years, Ultimate Fighting Championship boss Dana White has been one of the head men of what might be called knucklehead culture.

Knucklehead culture is based in sports, but its goal is permanent adolescence for all dum-dums, regardless of athletic ability.

Not adolescence in the good ‘experience new things and figure out who I’m meant to be’ way, but in the bad, ‘nothing matters to me but myself’ way.

Knucklehead culture is aggressively stupid. It’s all YOLO, all the time. If you don’t like your job, quit your job. If it feels good, do it. If someone suggests you stop, that means go harder.

There are a great many aspiring knuckleheads in sports – if you have ever non-ironically used the phrase ‘Saturdays are for the boys’, you are one of them – but White raised the form to art. He is a 3-D cartoon, minus the need for funny glasses.

So when he came out a week ago as the one sports executive waving off the coronavirus “panic” – his word – that was part of the act.

White refused to shut down UFC. He’d blustered his way through problems before and expected to do so again. He said he’d received assurances from the U.S. President (insert usual disclaimer here). He’d talked to doctors (presumably, graduates of Hollywood Upstairs Medical College).

A man with zero understanding of virology or infection vectors had decided that was all nonsense because, well, science was harshing his vibe. The fights would continue.

And then they did not.

By week’s end, White was standing down. All UFC fights would be postponed for the foreseeable future.

“I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime,” he said. He sounded almost cowed.

A lot of bad things are about to happen, but during this relative lull in the fight to come, I am choosing to dwell on what good might result from this.

It seems certain there will be a massive philosophic shift to go along with the sociological and financial ones already happening. Our values and ethics will change. The hierarchy of things we hold important will radically alter.

A lot of stuff that used to seem necessary – luxury goods, three vacations a year, putting off adulthood until your 30s – will go out the window. A sense of imminence, that feeling that something is about just about to happen, will replace the late-20th/early-21st century attitude that things would always remain comfortably the same.

One of the results of that attitude was the democratization of decadence. If you’re anywhere between a boomer and a child, you take it as a given that lassitude and self-absorption are not exclusively for the idle rich.

Globalization made those distractions affordable to the middle class as well. You, too, can be constantly bored by everything, constantly jonesing for another hit of amusement. It’s your right.

So even as things started to go sideways, people were determined to continue on in their distracted state. They were still going on vacations as the world was shutting down, or trying to draw them out after they’d been told to leave.

As matters worsened, we all rushed out to buy things – anything – because shopping is our primary pastime. Fear steroidally heightened the urge to indulge it.

Now I wake up each morning and think, “What should I buy?” As though a couple of cans of sardines are going to solve the problem (though I still bought the sardines).

Knucklehead culture is the ultimate expression of this turn toward solipsism (along with its parallel and competing cultural movement – self-care.

Self-care – which also has a strong sporty element – is couched in more palatable jargon. But it amounts to the same thing – ‘I’m taking care of myself. Everyone else can go to hell.’

(They are the masculine and feminine halves of the same turning inward.)

It is the knuckleheads who continued ramming the bars after they were asked to stop. They were the ones who refused to get off the beaches. They were the people cornering the market on bulk hand-sanitizer.

One of those profiteers was so proud of himself that he gave an interview to The New York Times about it. Not because he’s stupid (though perhaps he is that, too). But because he’d been raised in a culture that’s taught him it is not only permissible, but morally defensible, that he do whatever is best for him. Anyone who says otherwise is a hater. Anyone who says otherwise twice is a bully.

This sort of behaviour used to be mildly tolerated in teenagers. But it’s been creeping up the demographic scale for ages.

All of us know a few 40- and 50-year-old knuckleheads. Perpetual children. Ignoramuses armed with Google and a whole lot of opinions. The sort of people who think Gary Bettman is an alarmist because he cancelled a perfectly good NHL season.

For every outrageous instance of the type, there’s a dozen more knucklehead-lite types. They’ve learned to moderate their language, but still spend the bulk of their time thinking about Friday night and their next trip to wherever. They work to live, not live to work (which often means not getting either one right). They do no good deeds, but never stop talking about the need for them on Instagram.

These people come from every slice of society and every political affiliation. What binds them is a crusading belief they are the centre of the universe.

Sports is guilty of providing them with the can-do language that camouflages their egocentrism. They are all working on themselves, or deciding to do what’s best for them, or realizing their own potential.

We used to say to a person who was feeling lost in life that they ought to find solace in acts of charity and selflessness. Now we tell them to work on themselves.

You go far enough down that road and everything that pleases you becomes a signpost on your mystical path toward self-realization. That road goes in the opposite direction from community.

No social force could cleanse us of this slide into dissipation because things were good. Why change a winning game?

The knuckleheads aren’t winning any more. They’re losing along with the rest of us. It’s time to start heading back up that path before it’s too late. Maybe that’s where this ends up. Spurred by fear and isolation, with us finding our way back to each other. Maybe.

The idea of hope is doing a lot of heavy lifting at the moment, but toss that one on its back, too. Whatever else comes of this, it will be a long time before vapidity and self-involvement are popular again.

The world will still produce Dana Whites and other, lesser knuckleheads in a year’s time, but I doubt many will find them amusing any more.

[merilGuana]

Originally Posted by JustKelli

#TheFutureIsFemale

I'm all for the normalization of women striving for excellence, but misandrist hashtags like that are not helpful, except to the internationalists who need to have the white man subjugated in order to have the full subversion of all governments on the planet completed.

I'm glad to see how far women's MMA has come, and its almost as entertaining watching women's pole vault, but do women really want a future of 100% beta males to contend with?

[excalibur1814]

#TheFutureIsFemale

No, it's not. The future is people working together to overcome the fact that we seem to be stuck in a repeating cycle of disliking anything and everything that's not 'us'.

We're all human. A woman is no better than a man and a man is no better than a woman. if a person has to use a hash such as, '#TheFutureIsFemale', then there's something wrong right there.

Imagine if someone posted, "#TheFutureIsMale"!? The fires would be lit, the global media would bite and here we go again. If Women have to keep reminding themselves that they're tough, then somewhere within they might believe that they're not. They are. They just need to realise that, believe the words, then just get on with life. Belief is a beautiful thing.



As for MMA... DAMN! The later seasons with all female fighters are brutal. There's an aggression that's somewhat beyond the men. Loved every second of it.

[JustKelli]

Originally Posted by excalibur1814

As for MMA... DAMN! The later seasons with all female fighters are brutal. There's an aggression that's somewhat beyond the men. Loved every second of it.

2 of the 3 main cards at UFC 261 last month were womens matches...

I still love this pic from UFC 193 between Holly Holms and Ronda Rousey. They beat each other senseless until Holms knocked Rousey out cold.



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Coincidently Dana White who said that he wanted equality between mens and womens matches has managed to scrap the womens 145 class... Nunes ruled that one anyway but still.

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On a personal note, I'm eligible to take my taekwondo 3rd Dan in September but my brain is still unscrambling lol. That's a hard pass for now.

[JustKelli]

Originally Posted by merilGuana

I'm all for the normalization of women striving for excellence, but misandrist hashtags like that are not helpful, except to the internationalists who need to have the white man subjugated in order to have the full subversion of all governments on the planet completed.

I'm glad to see how far women's MMA has come, and its almost as entertaining watching women's pole vault, but do women really want a future of 100% beta males to contend with?

Originally Posted by excalibur1814

#TheFutureIsFemale

No, it's not. The future is people working together to overcome the fact that we seem to be stuck in a repeating cycle of disliking anything and everything that's not 'us'.

We're all human. A woman is no better than a man and a man is no better than a woman. if a person has to use a hash such as, '#TheFutureIsFemale', then there's something wrong right there.

Imagine if someone posted, "#TheFutureIsMale"!? The fires would be lit, the global media would bite and here we go again. If Women have to keep reminding themselves that they're tough, then somewhere within they might believe that they're not. They are. They just need to realise that, believe the words, then just get on with life. Belief is a beautiful thing.



As for MMA... DAMN! The later seasons with all female fighters are brutal. There's an aggression that's somewhat beyond the men. Loved every second of it.

LOL, sounds like misogyny to me. Are women really that much of a threat to your generation of men??? Really, a hashtag gets you guys worked up!!!

I do agree with the beta-male comment though as more men let loose their female side while women appear to be getting more aggressive in some instances. Blame that guy part on youtube.

NO I don't want to cuddle after getting my brain fucked out lol.

[JustKelli]

Here is an example of why the above posts bug me and why...

I was wearing this stylish hoodie as a display of my love for my country when some pissed off Indian called me a "fucking Canadian bitch"... right before I throat punched him and shut him up. I'm not a violent person but I do stand my ground when called for. In competition all bets are off.

[JustKelli]

There is no real UFC thread for discussion but im just watching 261 recap and holy hell, 17 seconds for Silva to put Weidman on a stretcher...

Similar end in the Smith vs Crute fight with a kick to the back of the leg that paralyzed a nerve...

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125 lbs.: UFC Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko vs. Jessica Andrade

I thought Andrade was a fighter not a punching bag. Shevchenko is a beast. Well done

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115 lbs.: UFC Strawweight Champion Zhang Weili vs. Rose Namajunas

Weili didn't even know she had been knocked out cold

Well done Namajunas taking her title. Nice kick too.

[Lando Griffin]

Originally Posted by JustKelli

115 lbs.: UFC Strawweight Champion Zhang Weili vs. Rose Namajunas

Weili didn't even know she had been knocked out cold

Well done Namajunas taking her title. Nice kick too.

I love Rose. She's one of my favorites.

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[JustKelli]

Originally Posted by Lando Griffin

I love Rose. She's one of my favorites.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2vfmLY7z-RM

My first time seeing her. It was nice to see her overwhelmed at the win but staying humble.

She better not bulk up though or she might have to get in the cage with Shevchenko one day and that won't end well. She is on the Flyweight cusp...