Posted on 09/15/2014 5:02:55 AM PDT by Viennacon
On ESPN’s “SportsCenter” earlier this week, espnW columnist Kate Fagan argued that the big picture in the controversy surrounding former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice’s domestic violence allegations. According Fagan, the problem needs to be tackled at the so-called grassroots level when men are in their formative years. “Well, I think right now we're talking so much about firing Goodell or punishments. You know, should it be a three game, a two game, a six game, a full year ban? But I think that's a little reactive and not proactive. Domestic violence is something that happens in anger, in the moment and it’s very unlikely that perpetrators are worried about whether it will be a two, a six, a 12-game suspension. This is behavior that is happening at the grassroots level that is born through years of our culture like raising like men to want to not be like women and using language like ‘sissy’ and ‘you throw like a girl’ that demean women. These are all contributing factors. And I think if we want to hold the NFL’s feet to the fire over this issue, we shouldn't be looking at the number of game suspensions because I don't think that will change the problem. I think it should mean getting them to throw the kitchen sink at domestic violence. To invest millions of dollars in grassroots organizations, in going into middle schools and high schools and colleges and talking to young men about dealing with anger, about how they treat women. I think that’s where you're going to see change. I think that right now all of this reactive behavior is not going to change it, as much as going in and going into the school system and the younger spaces and really reprogramming how we raise men.”
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Remember, these are the kinds of people who run your kid's school. Pull them out!
Cris had it right: “We don’t respect no women, we don’t respect no kids, all we respect is being taken off the field.”
” and using language like ‘sissy’ and ‘you throw like a girl’ that demean women.”
How about “Ho” and the music that promotes that language and treatment of women??
All you can do is teach YOUR daughter not to hang out with thugs.
National Felon League
who gives a rat’s @$$ about this dyke’s opinion?
Last time it was said to me, it demeaned me.
If you don't want to be accused of throwing like a girl (oh, wait! - The word 'girl' is demeaning, too), then learn how to not throw like one.
Step, then throw - good!
Conservatives need to reprogram their TVs and block ESPN. Of course, we wouldn’t have the courage to dump DirecTV or Time Warner because our families would die without daily propaganda from the Left. Pitiful.
Damn! I had no idea she was an expert on the historical basis of chauvinism. Also, saying the President "throws like a girl" isn't meant to demean girls. It's meant to demean the President. Most girls don't throw like a boy does...it's a fact. So does that mean that every difference between the way a boy does something versus the way a girl does it is an avenue towards demeaning the difference? Her solution is to throw millions of dollars into teaching boys not to make fun of the differences. Given the effectiveness of the two ways to throw a ball, why not spend those millions teaching the girls how to throw a ball better? Or would it make more sense to let the parents decide how to raise their kids in terms of their social sensibilities and save the millions of dollars?
Is anyone else as sick of bitter hateful misfits as I am? All we hear from these days.
Sorry lady but that is a large part of the reason the problem exists. You have been reprogramming men for 30 years now and it back fired.
Women are the same as men, women are equal to men, there are no difference we can do anything you can do etc.
Well you just taught young men that you can take a punch to the face!
I was brought up before this nonsense. I was taught to respect women, to protect women.
When I was a young man if I had hit a woman my dad would have tracked me down and whooped my ass beyond belief! But then I had a dad at home. But then hitting a women was not AN ACCEPTED part of the culture. When society starts being detroyed ( abortion on demand, homosexual marriage, prayer taken out of the schools etc.) then getting bent because a group of men fel hitting women is okay is a little hypocritical.
“This is behavior that is happening at the grassroots level that is born through years of our culture like raising like men to want to not be like women and using language like ‘sissy’ and ‘you throw like a girl’ that demean women.”
That doesn’t demean women, it demeans men that act like women. Big difference.
LOL - the first thing boys do when they meet is to fight, just for the fun of it. Then we teach them to treat girls the same way they treat boys which leads to accusations of sexism, then we try to teach boys to be just like girls so they stop hitting girls. . .these folks are so hosed.
They demanded equality, and now don’t like the results they get from some quarters of the population. But then, logic never was a strong suit for Leftists.
Maybe they should lose some weight first before they are allowed to comment.
Nice haircut there butch. Effff U there miz Fag-in.
That’s the answer, more Marxist gummit will solve any problem. What should we do to stop women like his wife from hitting him?
Pray America wakes
Kate will never be accused of “throwing a ball like a girl”.
So, she doesn't like the results of the "progressive's" first "reprogramming how we raise men.”
1) "Women don't want to be on a pedestal! Treat women & men EXACTLY alike!"
2) "Young black males have been oppressed by slavery & racism & white privilege and poverty and should NOT be held responsible for their actions!"
(Young WHITE men are just as capable of behaving like animals but usually they don't get the same "Free Passes" that are often given to blacks)
3) "If you object to the subjects & lyrics of Rap "music", you are racist, culturally insensitive and hopelessly out of date."
Now she wants to reprogram men to be sissies so they will just sit around and whimper when the hordes of barbarian males attack, throw the "liberated" women over their shoulders and haul them back to their caves to do as they desire with them?
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