I understand. I guess my point is, I'm not looking at this thru the prism of NFL football. I'm looking at this as an employee/employer/fellow employees situation. No one in the world should deal with this type of extended harassment. It wouldn't be tolerated in any other job in the U.S. We have hate-crime laws in this…
Bastion, please
Bastion-please
Context has everything to do with fixing the larger problem. You're right. The Dolphins' situation should serve as a catalyst to eradicate this type, of treatment and behavior from all locker rooms. But if we don't look at other locker rooms, we can just pretend it's all okay. And you can be sure the NFL will.
Seriously this is not how a professional organization conducts its self. I am sure there is hazing in every locker room . But this is a top down systematic abuse. This is not how any successful anything conducts itsself. This is a bunch of losers conducting its self in a sad pathetic manner.
The only context needed here is Incognito confessing to using racial slurs against Martin. Even if it's not an outlier, it's something that needs to change.
This is 2014, for fucks sake...can't we just treat people as people no matter the color of their skin, gender or sexual orientation?
Please provide an acceptable and non-offensive context for anything that happened in this report. I'm way curious. Wow me.
Why should this or any kind of harassment be explained away by "context" or "standard procedure"? The NFL needs to wake up a realize the time that it now exists in. Just like certain social norms from the past are no longer tolerated in today's society, neither should actions like Incognito's be tolerated in today's…
Disgusting. My heart goes out to women who do not have access to or the legal option of abortion. I find it truly frightening as a woman to imagine myself in those situations without the right to choose.
Liquid Sky, one of the most jarring movies ever. When my buddies and I left a midnight showing at the Circle Theater on Pennsylvania Avenue in DC, one of my friends observed that watching the movie was "like having your brain smashed out by the word Fuck."
People are making a big deal out of this because it's literally never happened before.
Oh man, I'm feeling some strange things inside. I'm so confused. I've never felt this before!! Hold on, let me check something....
<clutches pearls> Mother Russia... Protect the children from this dangerous sexual propaganda!
In a country in which women have very few other kinds of capital, they are pushed to exploit their sexual capital. It's ugly. Not because the display of sexuality or willing self-objectification are ugly (they are not, when they are the decision of fully autonomous individuals), but because there are too few *other*…
The Barbie vs Bratz debate has always driven me crazy. The Bratz dress more Urban and Ethnic slutty then Barbie and her WASPy sluttiness. So really the argument comes down to Urban/Ethnic is worst than WASP. And then we get to the heart of the matter.
Women like Janet Mock are killed by people who believe the ignorance Piers Morgan refuses to acknowledge in himself. But yeah, controversy machine, sure.
One could ask the question, is Jerry Seinfeld relevant anymore? He's only doing press because he was in a unfunny ad shown during the Super Bowl.
I can't really see Scott as a caricature, because I was more like him in my 20s than most of the other examples of geek characters mentioned here. I played bass guitar (and a few other instruments), was into alternative music, liked video games and D&D and LARP and comic books, went to house parties and clubs, was…
I dunno... call me an idealist, or naive, or sentimental. But to me this is the perfect group of geeks that lived the life to tell the tale. There are points where they grew up, and there are points where they refused to do so. They stuck together, no matter what, stuck to their beliefs (be they cool or very much…
Dear Men Everywhere,
First choice, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World