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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In a sense she is right but as a liberal is incapable of looking in the mirror and upon the faces of black women. Stop sleeping with thugs, stops raising thugs, and make something of your life off the welfare grid.
This is actually hilarious. They should have asked her if changing the sexual behavior of men would be unlawful in California?
A federal appeals court has upheld California’s ban on ‘sexual-orientation change’ therapy; so if she wants to “re-program” boys against their “natural” heterosexuality, she would be in contravention of the law.
Naturally, you have to do a little search to discover that the victim of her assault was her former "girlfriend".
How about a father! Gee what a novel idea!.
Because women are perfect, and no woman has ever harmed a child... ahem...
(child abusers are more likely to be the mother:
79.4 percent of perpetrators were parents and 6.8 percent were other relatives. The largest remaining categories of perpetrators were the unmarried partner of a child’s parent (3.8 percent) and other perpetrators (4.1 percent). In 3.6 percent of child maltreatment cases the perpetrators were missing or unknown. In under 1 percent of child maltreatment cases the perpetrator was a foster parent, residential facility staff, the child’s daycare provider, a legal guardian, friends or neighbors, or other professionals (USDHHS, 2007).
Approximately 40 percent of child victims were maltreated by their mothers acting alone; another 18.3 percent were maltreated by their fathers acting alone; 17.3 percent were abused by both parents (USDHHS, 2007).
They’re all over the place. Its as if something is missing in their lives and they’re blaming everyone else for the loss.
He grew up in the Weyman Avenue projects in New Rochelle and was raised by his mother.
Lots of tony New York towns have "low-income housing tracts" in order to help alleviate property taxes for the larger community.
Her utopia would leave butch dykes as the only sign of masculinism (newly invented word, copyright BCC 2014), and of course, leave all the domestic violence at the hands of these queers.
Katy Kool-aid.
ESPN personalities jumped the shark LONG AGO.
this is about protecting the athlete pay check.
(remember epsn etc. commentators are part of the athletic celebrity revolving door/retirement plan)
IOW society must become thralls so THEY can go about business as usual.
this is not a serious conversation this is just a fake crisis not going to waste. Where are the police? if this was going to go somewhere is RIGHFULLY should have been a criminal prosecution. seriously, it should have been criminal.
How about ESPN stadium simulcast?
ONLY the game, perhaps the score and bare pertinent data (outs, downs) and just a direct time feed of the stadium announcer. NO face time for announcers or commentary. JUST the field of play as if you were there.
I stand corrected.
They don’t talk about those details much - they emphasize his graduation from superswank New Rochelle High School, with its state of the art sports facilities, smartboards, and student parking lot filled with BMWs and Audis.
It’s far to easy to lump primary blame on the colleges. Yes, they are a contributing factor, but prima donna/sense of entitlement culture begins long before they start playing college ball. Over the past couple of years, schools have started offering scholarships to seventh graders. Think about that for a moment. The kid hasn’t spent a single day in high school and his path as an elite athlete is already being formed.
Take a kid from a dysfunctional home, with no positive male role models and a marginal education. Then, you tell him he’s the next LeBron or Tom Brady or whomever. What kind of spoiled brat will he be by the time he accepts that scholarship? As long as he produces on the court or the playing field, there will be plenty of enablers to give him what he wants, and cover-up any mistakes along the way.
“” and using language like ‘sissy’ and ‘you throw like a girl’ that demean women.””
On “sissy” I say okay use it. On “you throw like a girl” I agree it demeans women. Should say “you throw like a fag” or “your throwing style is gay”. I’d like to hear what they’d have to say to that.
But a girl isn’t a grown woman, so how’s that an insult again? It’s an incentive to improve how you work on technique.
What do they care about 4chan? Did 4chan attack the NOW or other feminist website?
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