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Stop using sex as a weapon

I just read a depressing article on Adrants about Los Angeles WNBA team the Sparks and their female "tactical marketing" director who has decided to pose nude holding a basketball with the WNBA logo on it in Playboy magazine rather than pay the $25,000 Playboy magazine placement fee for a more traditional print ad promoting the team. I just want to say thanks to this woman for setting the WNBA back 50 years, (and it's only 8 years old), and furthermore, thanks for more permanently removing any credibility these female athletes might have managed to squeak out after a lifetime of toiling away in a gym for little to no compensation. And, lastly, thanks for further ingraining into the minds of any little girl WNBA fans out there, (and, believe me, I've been to a few WNBA games as I had to write a television commercial for one a few years back, and there are nothing but parents and their little girls at these games), that no matter what they might accomplish in life, even professional grade athletic prowess, they're still only as valuable as their tits are perky. The saddest part of all is that it WILL work and the Sparks will probably see the highest ticket sales figures in the history of their team.

LA Sparks Use Nude Playboy Spread to Boost Ticket Sales from Adrants

Employee of the Month Sparks Interest Espn, via Adrants

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Call Timothy "Speed" Levitch

  • This used to list Speed Levitch's phone number, but it doesn't work anymore. Now all I have for you is an old quote from his answering machine, which is pure poetry.
    "I am lack of coordination being utilized. I am dysfunction gazing into the eyes of function. I am quieted, odd, menaced awkwardness dying at the altar of suave. They call me Levitch. Leave me a message."
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