They kept to the side of line that I'm comfortable with -- no personal taunts, no belittling her because she's a girl. (Whether they'd have done it if Canaan was the one who couldn't bring himself to go down the slide is another question, but completely hypothetically I do believe they would have.)

(Me, in retrospect I'd be: DAMN! I got TRASH-TALKED by a freakin' HARLEM GLOBETROTTER! How cool is that?)

She was clearly very vulnerable, but the Globetrotters comments didn't bother me. My thing is, if Mika were a man, another Globetrotter for example, this is how they would have behaved. This is a high stakes competitive situation. Oh well.

Mika wasn't going to do, I think the other team picked up on this and decided to make a comment about it.

I think if she'd been a man, their comments would have been less patronizing. The "Oh honey, I'll walk you down" shit really rubbed me the wrong way.

I think it was patronizing because the two weren't competing.

I know a lot of men in sports competitive situations. This is the kind of shit they say to each other. My SO's Madden online gaming league is a trip.

Another Top Chef spinoff:

Today, Bravo announced the series pickup of its newest culinary competition series entitled “Top Chef: Just Desserts,” a spin-off of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning “Top Chef.” The series will consist of pastry chefs competing against one another in a series of challenges. Open calls for chefs interested in competing in the high-stakes culinary competition series will be held in cities across the country starting on October 26.

Do you think we can get Top Chef: CSI (using only materials found at a crime scene, each week contestants....) or Top Chef: Law & Order: Courtroom Cafeteria

Top Chef: SVU - Scallops are Bad.

Top Chef: SVU - Scallops are Bad.

Bwahahahahahaha!!!

I honestly would vote for them making a rule next season that no one can use scallops EVER.

Agreed - no scallops, no lamb.