Oh God.
Two more American professional tackle football players were arrested for committing domestic violence recently, one for child abuse in disciplining two of his children on two separate occasions. The other one, Jonathan Dwyer, was arrested just yesterday. This is what police say he did: He wanted to have sex with his wife, see, and she didn't want to. So he head-butted her and broke her nose. The next day, repentant, he punched her in the side of her face.
And in the college version of the sport scholar Jameis Winston, accused of rape in 2012, repeatedly
helping himself to soda that he hadn't paid for at a Burger King, disregarding the commands of a manager, and helping himself to seafood at another restaurant in 2013, scholar Winston got up on a table in the student union at his school, Florida State University, the Harvard of the Panhandle, and, reprising a, I have read, popular and well-know meme, shouted loudly, and I quote:
"Fuck her right in the pussy!"
The common thread in all three is, of course, violence against those weaker, almost the definition of cowardice. There is an additional theme in the behavior of Dwyer and Winston, and let us add Jerry Sandusky: entitlement. Entitlement to sex, entitlement to free food, entitlement to free education, wealth, honors. Entitlement. In Winston's case, as there clearly was in Sandusky's for years, there may also be a feeling of entitlement to no consequences to his behavior since he has never been arrested. Florida State prohibited him from playing a few baseball games for his "see-food" diet last year, and has prohibited him from playing one-half of the football game on Saturday for his entertainment at the student union.
If we subtract Peterson and Sandusky and add Ray Rice to this group, and let's throw in O.J. Simpson too, women are second-class citizens to these men, women are there to serve them, to be used and abused, they are little better than slaves or "uppity" black people after slavery and before Civil Rights who didn't know their place, women are to these men the new "niggers." Unbeknownst to me before the Winston rape allegation broke in 2013, the sexual mistreatment of women is "epidemic" on American college campuses, it is not confined to the treatment by scholar-athletes. Rape goes unreported, under-reported, uninvestigated and under-investigated when reported--there are no consequences. Sexual assault of college women on campus is an "epidemic." How in the world did this state of affairs come to be? At universities! I don't know. I don't know but the Obama administration has named dozens, dozens and dozens of colleges and universities that it is investigating.
It is God-awful.
Two more American professional tackle football players were arrested for committing domestic violence recently, one for child abuse in disciplining two of his children on two separate occasions. The other one, Jonathan Dwyer, was arrested just yesterday. This is what police say he did: He wanted to have sex with his wife, see, and she didn't want to. So he head-butted her and broke her nose. The next day, repentant, he punched her in the side of her face.
And in the college version of the sport scholar Jameis Winston, accused of rape in 2012, repeatedly
helping himself to soda that he hadn't paid for at a Burger King, disregarding the commands of a manager, and helping himself to seafood at another restaurant in 2013, scholar Winston got up on a table in the student union at his school, Florida State University, the Harvard of the Panhandle, and, reprising a, I have read, popular and well-know meme, shouted loudly, and I quote:
"Fuck her right in the pussy!"
The common thread in all three is, of course, violence against those weaker, almost the definition of cowardice. There is an additional theme in the behavior of Dwyer and Winston, and let us add Jerry Sandusky: entitlement. Entitlement to sex, entitlement to free food, entitlement to free education, wealth, honors. Entitlement. In Winston's case, as there clearly was in Sandusky's for years, there may also be a feeling of entitlement to no consequences to his behavior since he has never been arrested. Florida State prohibited him from playing a few baseball games for his "see-food" diet last year, and has prohibited him from playing one-half of the football game on Saturday for his entertainment at the student union.
If we subtract Peterson and Sandusky and add Ray Rice to this group, and let's throw in O.J. Simpson too, women are second-class citizens to these men, women are there to serve them, to be used and abused, they are little better than slaves or "uppity" black people after slavery and before Civil Rights who didn't know their place, women are to these men the new "niggers." Unbeknownst to me before the Winston rape allegation broke in 2013, the sexual mistreatment of women is "epidemic" on American college campuses, it is not confined to the treatment by scholar-athletes. Rape goes unreported, under-reported, uninvestigated and under-investigated when reported--there are no consequences. Sexual assault of college women on campus is an "epidemic." How in the world did this state of affairs come to be? At universities! I don't know. I don't know but the Obama administration has named dozens, dozens and dozens of colleges and universities that it is investigating.
It is God-awful.
