NBA Referee Violet Palmer is gay

[bagelred]

No really, she is....

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...tner/13400437/

Violet Palmer made her biggest call yet: The NBA referee will marry her partner of 20 years on Friday.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Palmer says she came out to her fellow NBA referees in 2007. She has not tried to keep her sexuality a secret from the league since that time.

"This is actually the big formal coming out," Palmer said. "We are saying to the world, to everyone, here's my wife of 20 years. This is the big coming out."

So Violet Palmer is an NBA referee, who is a Woman, Black, and Gay....good lord, that is like the Trifecta of job security. At this point, Violet could take a dump at CenterCourt in the middle of an NBA game, and still not be fired.

Kudos to Violet. She's a pretty bad ref though....

[niko]

No really, she is....


So Violet Palmer is an NBA referee, who is a Woman, Black, and Gay....good lord, that is like the Trifecta of job security. At this point, Violet could take a dump at CenterCourt in the middle of an NBA game, and still not be fired.

Kudos to Violet. She's a pretty bad ref though....

Most refs though are white males with none of these charateristics and they probably could also take a dump and not be fired. So i don't think it's the black/gay thing.

She's a bad ref though because she can be intimidated. I've seen players stare her down and not get calls.

[Fudge]

Violet Palmer's a woman?

[bagelred]

Most refs though are white males with none of these charateristics and they probably could also take a dump and not be fired. So i don't think it's the black/gay thing.

She's a bad ref though because she can be intimidated. I've seen players stare her down and not get calls.

I mean, you are right to an extent. Referees have pretty good job security, i'm just saying that Trifecta is very powerful. Woo Wee, 3 groups would be up in arms if she got fired.

[russwest0]

Is her wife ok with her gifting LeBron a ring in 2012?

[Trollsmasher]

just great, now I can't call her the worst ****ing ref in the league anymore

[NumberSix]

And the sky was made of amethyst?

[ralph_i_el]

But she's so bad

[ProfessorMurder]

White male refs cheated on games and they didn't lose their job. Don't act like it's easy for them to get fired.

[Adam Silver]

White male refs cheated on games and they didn't lose their job. Don't act like it's easy for them to get fired.

It's not cheating if they are just doing what their boss tells them to do.

[played0ut]

has dick officially come out yet.




it's an open secret. they still talk about it on inside the nba.

[tomtucker]

No really, she is....


So Violet Palmer is an NBA referee, who is a Woman, Black, and Gay....good lord, that is like the Trifecta of job security. At this point, Violet could take a dump at CenterCourt in the middle of an NBA game, and still not be fired.

Kudos to Violet. She's a pretty bad ref though....

you

[Lebronxrings]

just great, now I can't call her the worst ****ing ref in the league anymore

oh my god discrimination! Should be charged immediately!

[Myth]

I remember coaching and I was yelling at a female ref and she claimed it was because she was female. She snapped at me "Why aren't you yelling at the male ref?" to which I responded "Because he isn't making terrible calls." The same goes for Violet. I have no problem with any of her demographic identifiers, only a problem with her reffing abilities.

[GimmeThat]

No really, she is....


So Violet Palmer is an NBA referee, who is a Woman, Black, and Gay....good lord, that is like the Trifecta of job security. At this point, Violet could take a dump at CenterCourt in the middle of an NBA game, and still not be fired.

Kudos to Violet. She's a pretty bad ref though....

so you're telling me with the trifecta of job security she decided to become an NBA ref?

what's next? people get hired based on their abilities?