Because she's a black woman who spoke her mind and didn't think she needed to kiss anybody's ass. The only thing worse than being black and woman is being uppity. She never apologized for her intellect or good-looks and therefore she's Satan's hand-maiden.

According to a lot of Black people (like my parents), Robin Givens is crazy and she is the one who drove Mike Tyson crazy. Because, ya know, blame the woman.

Yes, but what's your point? Even if they were grifting him does that mean a heavyweight boxer should knock a woman half his size out? He's also been accused of punching a stripper in the chest and convicted of raping someone he had just met so what was the "reason" there? Even he talks about his anger problems and…

Robin Givens is right. White people are still mad about the OJ verdict and I'm guessing it is because the victims were white. I bet if Ray Rice's victim had been a white woman, all of the white women who were wearing his jersey wouldn't have been wearing it. Had she been white, you would be hearing all sorts of racial…

So, her ex is a serial abuser and rapist, but you've decided to call her a bitch? I think she's been vindicated over and over by Mike Tyson's behavior. Or, do you think she deserved to be beaten and Desiree Washington deserved to be raped. Anyway, it's good to hear from the MRA/KKK wing.*

It's okay though. I remember when this happened to Givens, and a lot of what we heard about her was how "smug" and "awful" and "stuck-up" etc, etc, etc, she was. You know that side of it at least, even if it doesn't for you also carry the subtext of the Uppity Negress.

She lost everything. She was going to be a doctor when she was a kid and Bill Cosby encouraged her to pursue acting, saying that if she didn't make he'd pay for medical school. She was on Head of the Class and doing amazingly well when she met and became engaged to Tyson. In the wake of her abuse her career evaporated…

I never really like SVU. I tried. Just don't like it. Just because a few people think highly of it, you can't say the entire Jez community thinks it's "beloved." It's simply not true.

I was very young when all that was happening, but I do remember that Robin was labelled a "gold-digger" and treated horribly - some people ever said that poor Mike Tyson was HER victim of an elaborate smear campaign. Really disgusting. She did not get much support in the public eye, if I recall correctly. I always…

I saw this interview this morning and it is really worth watching if you get the chance. She articulated the complexity of this kind of situation very well, IMO. She has absolutely lived it and I'm glad she's out there helping. Here's hoping that the people who need to hear this message actually HEAR this message.

ugh. Yes. Especially what she said about black women being protective of black men and wanting to protect them from white people. We do that all the time to an almost pathological degree. We see white men gun them down and white women placing the blame on them in order to absolve themselves of their wrong doing, so we…

Goodell saw it. I believe it with all my heart. The problem? He would have to admit that he saw it and issued the bullshit suspension against Rice anyway. This was corporate arrogance at its highest.

Goodell's reputation and credibility has been pounded and destroyed. Nobody in their right mind believes Goodell and other major suits in the NFL did not watch that tape. In my opinion he lied. The arrogance of being the head of a MAJOR corporation gave him the balls to underplay the punishment of Ray Rice. The…

Oh, no way is anyone moving on from this issue yet. So rarely does society get to watch blame-the-victim tactic play out like this. If they in anyway think I'm going to forget that or let the NFL or Ravens live it down, they're drunk.

Because you had people arguing that he didn't really punch her - that they had perhaps pushed each other and she fell, hitting her head on the railing and knocking herself out.

The issue is really that Goodell and the NFL management do not care about the players' behavior off the field unless/until it becomes a PR nightmare for the NFL, at which point, even though they still don't care about the behavior (because the woman was probably asking for it anyway, and boys will be boys), they have…

God, the amount of people I've deleted ever since the incident happened. The people that are defending his actions, and believe he was completely justified, I can't deal with them, they won't get it... And tonight, I'll probably delete some more people... FUCK.

was told by pest control experts that she would have to burn anything that had come into contact with the spider eggs, as the arachnids are highly venomous.

Someone's going to do it...

Fuck you. Women aren't victims of abuse because they can't draw a fucking line. It's because abusive partners are manipulative pieces of shit that leave their victims isolated, financially dependent and blaming themselves for being beaten. (Oh hey, that last one sounds like you!) The most dangerous time in an abuse…