Post 6

Ray Rice punches his fiancee in an elevator, knocking her out, then awkwardly drags her out of the elevator. Why? MISOGYNY! No, really.

Let me get this straight. Ray Rice, who has a criminal record containing only 1 crime--that of aggravated assault III--occurring 6 months ago, which were later dropped, who was disciplined by his employer 3 months ago, who went on to marry the victim of his assault, and is part of a league where players like 49ers' Ray McDonald (felony domestic assault), Rams' Jo-Lonn Dunbar (assault), and Panther's Greg Hardy (two counts misdemeanor assault) all actively players, and the final decision is to vilify and destroy a man's career and image because he struck his then-fiancee--after she struck him no less than 2 times!--once.

That's right. Once. You hit a woman once, you might not go to jail, but it'll be considered "just" to have your life destroyed. Your image tarnished. Even if you perfectly follow court orders and still throw a lavish wedding.

Yup. That's where we're at. That's the misogyny. An adult man who agrees to successfully complete court supervised anger management courses (something that is only offered to first time offenders) in exchange for the dropping of his third degree assault charge and engages into the program can still suffer a form of double-jeopardy in the public's eye. Never mind the dozens of active players that have domestic assault chargers (which stand today; some of them multiple) who did not have a video released about their particular incidents. What is NFL commissioner going to do about those men who did something, at least in the eyes of the justice system, far worse than Mr. Rice? Is he going to encourage teams to cut contracts to open the door for indefinite suspensions? No. He isn't. And it's nothing to do with 'misogyny' as to why.

Events such as Mr. Rice's are PR nightmares. It's impossible to maintain and image of integrity when your product producers act in idiotic ways. This includes mouthing off police officers during a DUI traffic stop, fighting bouncers at strip clubs, hitting girlfriends/wives/children, and possessing stock piles of drugs. Rare opportunities, however, arise that allows the NFL to scapegoat a player. Consider it a yearly sacrifice. Who doesn't remember Michael Vick's troubles? Where is he now? Back in the NFL making a paycheque. What about Claude Terrell? Well, at a similar time as Vick was the whipping boy for the unruly NFL, Terrell was busy beating his wife. Yeah, that's right, not just one punch! It's clear, however, that his crime was worse, as he was charged and never played again in the NFL. But did you hear about it?

Here's some fun news: there were lots from around Vick's sacrificing. Rollingstone has an article on it! The important note is how quiet each of these events became when a singular event can be raised to prominence. It eclipses all other events, effectively doing damage control. Think about it like this: a man comes into the emergency room riddled with stab wounds. Most of which are severe. One has lacerated his femoral artery. As an attending, your focus is going to be on the one that is doing the most bleeding, thus you move to manage the femoral laceration. Once complete, you don't start celebrating your success as an ER doc while leaving all other wounds untreated, though! That's the NFL's method here.

McDonald (SF), Branch (BUF), Bell (PIT), Blount (PIT), Blackmon (JAX), Dunbar (STL), Johnson (PHI), and Gordon (BAL): all names of players who have been arrested since July 1, 2014. There were snippets, sure. But there wasn't a video released on the same day as the NFL Week 1's Monday Night Football. The list is much, much larger, though. UT San Diego has that long, long list.

UT San Diego also has an article claiming "we" (people? men? women? Americans? sports fans?) "only care about domestic violence when we see it." Sure, and what I saw was a woman striking a man a few times and him only striking her once. Where's the cry about domestic violence going both ways? Why must "we" only vilify the man when we see domestic violence? Anyways, if that were true, then the justice system wouldn't care if a woman reported domestic violence. "Your husband hit you? Yeah, that's all well in good that you say that, but if we didn't see it, then you're kind of shit outta luck then, eh?" IT DOESN'T HAPPEN.

I don't see misogyny in this. I see hyperfeminism that has infected the due process of men to ensure they continue to receive harsher sentences than women. I see the hyperfeminism infection that has convinced people to take up the SJW cause to use events like this to further their fascism. I see a rot that tries to take extra swings after the final bell has rung. And then I see these fascists claim they are oppressed and this is the only way to fix it. I say... bullshit.

This is an unedited rant. @nrokchi