I find it more telling that the NFL thinks its ok to not compensate women for their labor. THIS is why its important that cheerleaders be paid as professional entertainers. As opposed to being given an allowance. You can't refuse to pay your labor and then claim that you want your players to see those kinds of people…

That's a great point that I hadn't considered. I really hope people haven't cleared their conscious around the whole issue though. I suppose I was just hoping that at least a few people saw the ad and were like "shit this is some serious business" without excusing the NFL. You're absolutely right though - the league…

This ad isn't for you.

I would agree if the NFL were making any effort to actually combat domestic violence in their own organization, or if the ad were run by someone else. I think the fact that it may stop people from being as angry about their pathetic response to actual domestic violence counteracts any good it may have done.

I totally agree with you and even though I think it's upsetting in a lot of ways... an ad saying "domestic violence is scary and exists" is totally necessary. People actually don't seem to believe DV and IPT are as common as they are/don't understand how hard it is to escape those situations. It would be better if the…

I found this ad worse than useless. What was the message, exactly? "Domestic violence is scary, and. . .exists" Nothing about how to recognize when someone may be in a dangerous relationship, or what to do about it, or how to promote a culture where it's not say, acceptable for football players to commit it with no…

You're watching a sport in which, quite literally, players are destroying both their bodies and their brains and you're upset because the guy made a poop joke?

Honest, I'm not a stick in the mud. I like crude comedy as much as the next guy. But in the appropriate venue. Perhaps at comedy show or an R Rated movie where you know this can happen at any moment. I think what this moron did is as disgusting, repulsive, disrespectful and egotistical as I've ever seen in watching…

What pisses me off is that if she dies, her douchebag brother/husband is going to keep everything. When he's one of the worst influences of her life and a massive hanger-on. He clearly didn't protect her but he will sure be the person who benefits the most if she's gone.

Oh jeez. :-(

Anyone who thinks this is surprising just hasn't been following Bobbi Kristina on IG. From earlier this month. When she got backlash on her look she posted about how her mom had a fast metabolism, too.

This! Even if he WAS homeless, yelling at a person from a window to "scram!" is so rude and offensive I would still think this lady was an asshole. She failed as an adult and as a member of the service industry.

Pretty sure it's not Millennials who spout the "post-racial society" bullshit. It's more frequently Boomers who want to feel like they vanquished the evil dragon of racism (along with their other many, many, many, many, MANY societal accomplishments which they will tell you about any chance they get, and which they…

The only people who think we're in a ridiculous "post-racial" era are not Millenials.

It's not just millennial, the (white, older) ladies of my grandmother's church group talk about how glad they are racism is over.

When we had breakfast that morning, there was a white guy with dreadlocks sitting directly across from your doorway spare change-ing everyone who went into and out of your restaurant. And I could understand if a business thought he was bothering people and if that business had asked him to leave. But he was there the…

To those people:

Yeah because classism, racism and sexism are so mutually exclusive and none of these things can intersect. Ugh. These discourses depend on each other and feed off one another but of course anything that makes white people feel better about themselves is the dominant narrative.

Truly. Millennials seem to think that we've hit the post racial period by now. But, really. What's so hard about going outside and offering the man a seat in case he wanted to join that party? And THEN asking him to leave (nicely) if it turned out he didn't know any of them?

Err on the side of kindness, people! >_<