Link Roundup! -The Toast

This is a really depressing piece (American teen Muslims in the age of Ben Carson et al):

Beydoun said: “I see a lot of awful things in the media; people dying, discrimination, politicians being disgusting, but this really hit home because that was me he was talking about.”

“I’m educated enough to know that what he’s saying is absolutely against the constitution, but what about all the kids in my area who don’t know that? Now they’re going to think that maybe they have to lie or keep their religion a secret, maybe they can never fulfil their dreams.”

Whoa:

n Sept. 26, 2014, more than 100 students from a rural teachers’ college in the Mexican town of Ayotzinapa set out to neighboring Iguala. They were traveling there for the commemorative march of the Mexico City student massacre of 1968. Forty-three of them were never seen again after that night.

The Guardian has a really fabulous piece about endometriosis:

“Endometriosis affects women in the prime of their life. It is not a lifestyle disease. It is not a disease you get later in life. It attacks teens, young women when they should be out being active, working, having children, having sex – 50% of them are struggling with sex because it is too painful,” she said.

It has exacted a massive social cost in broken marriages and depression as well as being a huge economic burden, partly because of the large number of women who have to drop out of the workforce.

HOW WAS THIS EVER ALLOWED?

Vulnerable patients confined on 72-hour emergency holds at the University of Minnesota hospital can no longer be recruited into research studies, an ethics panel has decided.

I just read Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl for the first time and now I am so FUCKING AMPED for Carry On that I cannot even.

Two basketball-adjacent stories today!

a) This one, which is a completely convincing account of a young woman who was molested by Kevin Johnson:

She’s 36 now, though. She lives in Virginia, far away from Arizona, and has three young children of her own. And she’s done staying quiet about Kevin Johnson.

“I’ve chosen to say what I want, fully aware of the consequences,” she tells me.

“I just felt like I wasn’t doing anything but protecting him,” Koba says of her years of silence. “Part of the way they got me to go along with the agreement was they told me it would protect me from his attorneys saying mean things about me. Well, I’m a grown-up now. They can say mean things about me if they want.”

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b) This one, which is a DELIGHTFUL oral history of Vince Carter’s ridic dunk at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, in which he LEAPT like a CAT over a 7’2 French player:

Tubby Smith: It seemed like he was thinking: “Oh man, what have I done? I’m too far away. How can I correct this?” And his correction was to just elevate above it and over [Weis]. He just split his legs and went over him. I don’t know how he got that extra boost.

Steve Smith: I think time stopped for a second. Weis may have bent his head six inches to the side, but [Vince] clearly cleared this guy who was 7-foot-2. I had to gather myself, like: “Whoa! What just happened?”

Vince Carter: I took off outside the box, and I’m looking at the rim like, “Uh-oh.” And if you go back and look at it, you’ll see that I lean my upper body forward to reach as far as I can [to the rim] because I’m thinking I’m not going to make it. And when I got there, that’s where my excitement came from.

Nobody realized that because they didn’t know what was going on, what I was thinking. My challenge after I jumped was to just get as close to the rim as I could. I never thought about the guy under me.

Frédéric Weis: I had no idea about it. The only thing I remember was [teammate] Mou [Moustapha] Sonko was screaming from the bench like it was me dunking. He was raising his arms like it was us scoring. But it wasn’t me doing the dunk. I was on the receiving end.

My friend Carrie’s new puppy is feeling better, but today we have a special guest dog, Mr. Wilson:

The actor who was mad that the audience yelled at a woman trying to calm her autistic child is my fav person today:

The post was shared more than 8,000 times. In replies to readers, Mr. Loh wrote that he clearly heard a man who shouted to “get rid of the kid.” When Mr. Loh looked into the audience at the curtain call “and saw three empty seats where I knew they were sitting — I was heartbroken. I was heartbroken to know that she might never know that as a company (I must applaud my cast and crew) we continued the show and we were not bothered. I want her to know that she is a brave and should continue to champion her child. But I will continue to make theater for her. And that is the best I can do for now!”