I'm not sure what it says about societal decay that the media is so obsessed with blaming suicide deaths (of athletes, mostly) on CTE, rather than admitting that there is other shit going on, but here is another example. In Aus, I know of at least four famous cases since Covid lockdowns... - Kotaku In Action 2

I'm not sure what it says about societal decay that the media is so obsessed with blaming suicide deaths (of athletes, mostly) on CTE, rather than admitting that there is other shit going on, but here is another example. In Aus, I know of at least four famous cases since Covid lockdowns... (archive.is)

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– bamboozler1 [S] 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

And yes, "women in sport, lol", which is a) the only reason the media cares about this one, and b) a significant compounding factor that will be hushed up...

But not just because women are more vulnerable to concussion. No, I'd say it's more the fact that this woman was a soldier, a lesbian, and obviously had not coped well with lockdown, or with a faltering sports career. No, we [the media] won't mention those things. We'll just blame it on CTE, and CTE alone...

This was the same with the other examples the media here likes to cite - i.e. a faltering career, generally some sort of "bad blood" with a former club, lived alone, had other personal issues and/or relationship breakdown.

But no, we can't admit to any of that, because those things are "too hard". Let's just blame it on repeated concussions instead. What a joke...

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