I just want to say that I very much appreciate your comment! It brings some clarity to a complex situation.

uh greed.

I think this is actually what she seems angriest at, this idea that she is being forced into a narrative that makes her a symbol of victimhood and passive suffering that removes any sort of autonomy from her. Like she is so downtrodden and weak-willed that she couldn't have possibly chosen freely to marry him, or to…

Lauer: Did anyone at the Ravens say, 'Janay, it would be really good if you issue some kind of an apology?

I've never hit anyone in my life...I'm trying to imagine going crazy and knocking someone I love unconscious. I'm pretty sure my reaction would be more "OMG what have I done??Is she alive? Call an ambulance!!" and less "drag her out of there and leave her body for my lackey to deal with."

I just wish I could tell her that being arrested means fuck-all. You did NOT do anything wrong!!

I'm kinda struggling to understand how one goes from completely nonviolent straight to outright KOing your wife.

So, let me get this straight: Missori cops want to punish black men for putting their hands up and saying "Don't shoot." Hrm.

I feel like playing football in your racist, God-forsaken city is punishment enough, SLPOA

you know what I find offensive? 18 year olds getting shot and prosecutors intentionally throwing the case

w o w

Really? So he could only be sexually assulting if his penis entered her vagina? I think that is a very limited view of sexual assult.

Some woman (allegedly) thinking that a performance piece was license to sexually violate someone is further proof that we are in desperate need of public education on consent.

Look, if someone had picked up a gun and shot him, would it not have been murder? Taken his watch, that's still theft. Punched him in the face, still assualt. Just because he allowed himself to be vulnerable does not mean that anyone should take advantage of that. Also, arousal of any form is a biological response to…

So much this right here.

It's victim blaming and victim blaming is never okay, doesn't matter if the victim is a man or a woman.

The comments* on this story that I have read so far are really weird. La Beef is a tool—there's really no denying it—but that doesn't mean he deserved to be assaulted. I don't understand the people claiming he's lying or he brought it on himself...Would they be saying the same thing if he were a woman we all think is…

Believe victims, guys. Even if we don't like who they are as people, or they're "tryhards" or their art is dumb. Believe them.

Rape victims are treated like garbage by the vast majority of police, we just went over this with the Cosby case. What happened to Shia is not okay and I hope he gets connected with whatever supports he needs.

I don't know why people keep talking about how this is a race issue. I watched a Will Smith movie on the weekend and he's a successful black man, so that means that black men actually have no barriers in this country. Neither do black women, because Oprah.