Posted on 11/25/2022 12:39:55 AM PST by nickcarraway
I assume it was intentional.
It being intentional is the only reasonable explanation.
When I was dating in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was inconceivable to think I'd have to ask a girl permission to kiss her. You just went ahead and did it if it felt like the right time. Back then, "May I have permission to kiss you" would have come off so awkwardly and dorkish that that girl would probably never have anything to do with that boy again.
Yep. I’m from that era as well.
Exactly. A couple of the most important life lessons we should teach our children are adversity and consequences.
She probably threw it on him due to the charge against him.
Coffee Incident... laughable framing.
It looks like she violently assaulted someone with scalding hot water who was accused of KISSING her teammate.
She did so because she didn’t like that the actual victim got due process due to Title IX reform.
When she faced the SAME DISCIPLINARY PROCESS that her victim had to face... she took her life.
Tragic, but the parents would be better off buying mirrors than retaining attorneys.
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You decoded what the newspaper attempted to reframe thru their use of loaded phraseology. So very typical of the media always framing stories to the fit “the narrative”.
College football players are often treated like gods...and usually come to see themselves as gods,particularly at major schools. I’d wouldn’t be surprised if at least some of them might be inclined to engage in unwelcome sexual acts at parties,etc.
Sounds like she didn’t”spill” coffee on him. Sounds like she hunted him and threw coffee on him. Of course she should have faced school discipline. Don’t sound like something for her to snowflake out over. Weird situation.
Suing Colt Industries because your kid was killed with an AR-15 is frivolous. Suing Ford Motor Company because your kid was killed by a drunk driver is frivolous. But this one might not be. I can imagine a scenario where in a case like this I,a juror,might vote against Stanford. It would depend on the exact circumstances and details.
Doesn’t even matter the burns or temperature. If the guy would have dumped coffee on her, even iced coffee, the world would have ground to a halt. Half the country would walk around wearing coffee stained shirts and dresses. There would have been marches etc.
Sure sounds like she has an impulse control problem.
You just went ahead and did it if it felt like the right time. Back then, “May I have permission to kiss you” would have come off so awkwardly and dorkish that that girl would probably never have anything to do with that boy again.
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“I seem to have a strange desire to kiss you. Would you be so kind to permit me?”
“What?”
“Here is a copy of the standard waiver form.”
“Huh?”
“If you could just sign here, here, and initial there.”
I honestly don’t get this because it is so alien and weird to me.
I cannot imagine...just cannot imagine how bizarre all of this is. Ask permission for a kiss?
And he apparently “tried to”, not “successfully” kissed her.
I can see the dynamic on the female side-the two girls had a conversation about it, one of them possibly tearful, and the now deceased soccer-playing girl decided to show the “sexual assaulter” what was what, because hey...trying to kiss someone is right up there with forcible penetration according to the principles that colleges and feminist circles brainwash them with.
They fill their heads with such bullsh*t at colleges, and are surprised when someone treats an attempted kiss as an attempted or successful rape. The more I think of this, the more I think the college should be sued, but not at all for the reasons the parents want to sue.
This whole thing seems filled to me with so much more than someone throwing coffee on someone, being disciplined for doing so, and taking her own life as a result.
Agreed. It sounds like her friend was a victim of stolen kiss, or even just at attempt of a stolen kiss. Outside of the academic hothouse, it almost certainly would have been nothing more than an unpleasant and embarrassing incident.
In this case though, the incident was amplified by a gaggle of activists and paid counselors who had the effect of making the poor girl genuinely distraught and emotionally unstable. At least that's my take on it.
momincombatboots, keep in mind this post is not attack of any kind on you or your statement per se. I mean it as a blunt statement of fact, not to demean or diminish women.
That the deceased might appear to be able to physically “hold her own” with a man is largely an illusion.
In a desperate situation where a man isn’t expecting it, a woman may be able to fight back effectively and escape. But a male who is determined to harm a woman is going to succeed unless the woman has a firearm or real martial arts training when a man possesses neither of them.
This is particularly true when you factor in the fact that a man who intends to harm a woman is likely a coward, and will not initiate an assault with the odd large or physically imposing woman who might exist. He would likely choose a female who is at best his size or most probably, smaller. (Probably for the same reason you rarely, if ever, see cats attack prey bigger than themselves.)
This is not a knock on women, it is a biologically based fact. Men have naturally occurring steroids that promote aggressiveness, bone strength, muscle mass, and size. It is called testosterone.
The fact of the matter is that an average sized and conditioned female cannot “hold her own” with an average sized and conditioned male.
The indoctrination that Hollywood, the Feminist movement, and the Left in general have fostered with women is dangerous and based in fantasy.
It has been my experience that older, more mature women generally understand this feminist fantasy is largely BS and conduct themselves rationally and accordingly, but younger women who have been fed a steady diet of 110 pound females taking on five 200 pound males and demolishing them all, readily buy into that dangerous fantasy. It results in women being in places and situations they should never be in. (NOTE: Men have to remember this too, in order to avoid finding themselves in equally perilous situations, but the calculus is different for men that it is for women. That is just a fact.)
I hearken back to the common Feminist trope that “Ginger Rodgers had to do everything the great Fred Astaire did, but did it going backwards, in high heels, and a dress.”
That is all true, impressive, and humorous in its presentation, but they leave out the point that as a male, he could jump far higher and further than she could, could move faster, and lift her bodily into the air without excessive effort. Those are biological facts.
And when the contest is not about dancing moves, and who leads whom around the floor, but is instead a hand to hand life and death struggle in a foxhole where the ending is a binary one, living or dying, and both people know it, that testosterone induced strength has meaningful impact, never mind the impact it has on running a marathon or running down a soccer field.
Yeah, because she immediately pulled the lid off and spilled it into her lap, while sitting in a bucket seat, where the hot coffee pooled.
It all depends on the type of cup, time from brewing and other factors.
I've spilled just-brewed hot coffee on myself, it hardly burns because it doesn't pool, and just runs off the skin, it doesn't cause anything more than temporary discomfort. Stick your hand in the pot it came from and it's a different story.
I wholly agree.
The people who do this psychological damage to young people, both men and women, will never be called to account. Those activists and paid counselors will never be called to account, because the Left has imparted the imprimatur of legitimacy on this type of thing via government fiat, not to mention the media, entertainment, and education, and business sectors.
“In a society that doesn’t value life and teaches nothing about the love of Christ, one’s value is based on their endeavors and nothing more. Any deviation from perfection is seen as a failure in life.”
I suspect that you’re right. It wouldn’t surprise me if this young woman wasn’t raised with anything resembling a religious faith. A quick scan of articles about her memorial mention family and friends gathering on one of the soccer fields where she had played, not a house of worship. For many families in the 21st century, youth sports are a sort of quasi-religion.
Welcome to modern journalism. It's like every arena in Western Civilization, viz. they are experts concerning social justice nouns and pronouns, but cannot form a comprehensive sentence.
“It seems she was resentful of the verdict”
Male jocks get treated differently than female jocks.
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