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In response to
"I just read Simmons apology and he can still go F himself in the A. -- nm"
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Krusty
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I find myself in a very odd middleground on all of this, particularly as someone who's soured on Simmons' style (and of course, Simmons didn't write a
Posted by
Reagen
Jan 20 '14, 17:25
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word of the article)
The piece either needed to be shorter or much longer - to leave out the transgender issue entirely or to go much, much deeper into it (transgender people in sports, identity, whether this was a person who felt like she needed to lie about herself, etc etc. I'm just spitballing here). At the core of it, it's a story about someone who was defrauding investors (not about being transgender, but about her qualifications), and I don't see how that's not a story worth pursuing. Perhaps in hindsight the focus could be more on how the golf world lets itself be convinced that there's a magic fix to things (it alludes to this a little), but I don't know if that's a story you come up with as you're going through the process. I find it difficult to place the full blame on the writer for her suicide given her history, but at the same time as a person you can't help but be affected by something like that close to you. I also understand how you could have difficulty incorporating that into a piece without seeming self-serving. There's no good answers here.
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