tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446682073857250843.post7376134150976605532..comments2024-03-27T23:42:36.619-05:00Comments on Mock Ramblings: Abuse is not affectionMichael Mockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233321050691782148noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446682073857250843.post-70608272650890069112012-02-19T15:04:25.430-06:002012-02-19T15:04:25.430-06:00Belatedly, via the Slacktivist blogaround...
TW: ...Belatedly, via the Slacktivist blogaround...<br /><br />TW: Domestic Violence<br /><br />I don't know if you've heard of the college lacrosse player currently on trial for beating and strangling his girlfriend to death? There's no doubt about his guilt; the issue is mainly a murder vs. manslaughter conviction. <br /><br />Now, I get that his lawyer is trying to do the best he can for his client, but this is what he said: instead of trying to talk to the girl like a rational adult, "he kicked in her door, and was stupid, unthoughtful, loud and clumsy and intoxicated...He is what you get; he's a boy athlete."<br /><br />Which, even if you limit "stupid, unthoughtful, loud and clumsy and intoxicated" to the door-kicking and yelling parts, and exclude the punching and strangling, well, if I was a "boy athlete" I'd be really insulted.<br /><br />Seriously? Boys are louts, and that's all we can expect? Bwah?Amaryllisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446682073857250843.post-50246790554403118272012-02-19T06:15:52.900-06:002012-02-19T06:15:52.900-06:00I'm a man, but I think in my first few years o...I'm a man, but I think in my first few years of school I was sometimes told things like that when girls teased me. I think I was more often told to ignore them, 'though. I don't think I was ever attacked physically by a girl, so I don't know what sort of response I'd have gotten then.<br /><br />It looks as 'though this mostly happens when the genders are the other way 'round, 'though. I wonder why adults would have told me that sort of thing, when it sounds as 'though normally only girls get it? I forget how many people told me that sort of thing, perhaps I happened to have one teacher who took an attitude normally only applied when the genders are one way around and applied it when they were the other way around too.<br /><br />IIRC I found the claim pretty confusing. I suppose that was because it didn't actually make any sense.Intersection Vicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446682073857250843.post-53196444390806771022012-02-16T11:25:38.051-06:002012-02-16T11:25:38.051-06:00That was really well-done. I can't believe th...That was really well-done. I can't believe the folks whining about "the language". Good grief.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14775794907218052899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446682073857250843.post-4463218389451401592012-02-16T09:53:16.202-06:002012-02-16T09:53:16.202-06:00I have a follow-up post, if I can find time to wri...I have a follow-up post, if I can find time to write it. Maybe this afternoon.Michael Mockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233321050691782148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4446682073857250843.post-61785644312380269352012-02-16T09:13:29.884-06:002012-02-16T09:13:29.884-06:00Fantastic article! Thanks for a good read.Fantastic article! Thanks for a good read.DMahttp://www.gulliblestravelsdma.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com