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How Slam Dunking Gender Bending WNBA Rookie Brittney Griner Is Changing The World Of Sports

At the WNBA’s rookie orientation, Griner says she declined to participate in a session about makeup application and how to dress. “I don’t need that shit,” she says without rancor, adding that the only lecture she appreciated was one on 401(k)s. (Yes, new WNBA players are taught how to apply makeup while NBA rookies learn to beware of gold-digger groupies who might prick tiny holes in condoms.)

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“Reading what people say makes me want to be me even more,” she told ESPN magazine’s Kate Fagan.

via Colorlines