And what was the purpose of staging it around southerners, texans, small towns, high school football players and they’re supporters?

This article, which features interviews with two of the writers of the sketch, discusses why the setting of a Texas HS football town was used. Specifically, it was done as a means of situating the satirical depiction of sporting rape culture within a familiar setting, namely the critically acclaimed television show Fri…

Um. Because that’s where many of the stories come from, and there is a much larger ‘football god’ presence among HS football teams in the south.

It’s a complete dressing down of rape culture, and the fact that you think she’s trivializing it by talking about it, is the exact problem that she’s trying to point out.

Offensive to who? Rapists?

Unlike your commenter name.

When you don’t investigate until MONTHS after a rape occurred, then there won’t be any evidence. Don’t pretend like he was exonerated—football loving TPD did FSU a favor so she didn’t get a fair trial. Now maybe she will.

Cue the “she’s only looking for money” crowd in 3, 2.....

I respectfully disagree with the other posters here. I feel like she has tried through multiple avenues since the incident occured to get justice for what happened. It’s not uncommon for civil proceedings to happen well after all criminal cases regarding the matter are over, as they can be used to strengthen a civil…

1) Mike Tyson is a convicted rapist; not an accused rapist.

Great work. Thank you for this.

I won’t spend money to watch the fight because I don’t want to support either of these people, but I am rooting for Pacquiao. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a homophobic bigot, and I’m not a fan of him at all, but in his case, I think some of those views are a product of his religious upbringing. I don’t give him a pass for…

I never leave comments with no snark but this whole post is great and right on target.

If your whole life you’re trained to be aggressive, other things tend to come with that,” says Jonathan Fader, a leading sports psychologist who works with professional athletes (though not Rice). “Their job is to be aggressive.”

Ray Rice is being made out to be like Lennie from Of Mice and Men, just a loveably conflicted man that made a terrible mistake that he couldn’t truly comprehend.

Is there anything worse than the “I’m finally learning to love myself” narrative coming out of this? (Obviously, yes there are worse things) It is sickening. Let’s all feel pity for the abuser. Poor Ray can’t play a game anymore because he is a violent misogynist. How sad.

Do you get similarly het up about people posting pictures of themselves with a glass of wine? Because let me tell you, alcohol is a fucking poison and is causing far, far more agony and death than cocaine is. It’s wonderful and comprehensively deadly.

I’m sorry, but Daniel Pantaleo used up all of the NYPD’s benefit of the doubt for a long, long time.

As a recovering addict whose drug of choice allowed me to be highly functioning, never homeless, nor destitute nor desperate (in the sense as related to financial) i relate to certain aspects of this show. It was because i am highly intelligent and used to be a really shitty, manipulative, charming, charismatic…