I can understand somewhat the initial concern about physical strength but this is negated by the mandatory requirements. Aka if she can meet the physical strength required, then she has every right to be there.

I play in a different field sport, but the treatment is often the same: the guys got to play in the main stadium or better fields, and we usually ended up on the pitch waaaaay off in the corner or the beat-up one. I particularly remember one ladies’ match in which we were given several piss-poor fields and the better…

I’m not pearl-clutching because I expect that shit from a certain segment of self-hating black women at this point. You’d defend him if he murdered her, guaranteed. I remember back in the day reading some commentary from a black woman during the O.J. Simpson trial; she thought Nicole Brown was “just another white…

Well, I agree they both have issues with violence and need some serious therapy. But she’s owning her actions and he’s accusing her of lying, and painting himself as the total victim in all of it (which is typical abuser behavior). Those bruises on her neck say otherwise.

....You mostly just seem to have an issue with white feminists. All your comments are just screaming about how they’re out to destroy black men, which is fucking insane, because why? What is there to gain? No we aren’t. Chill the fuck out.

I do not care, one way or the other, about Baker and his character. And, I was following your threads, and appreciating your stance of ‘innocent until proven guilty’. Also, Baker is not being tried on Gawker, and will have his day in court, with, I’m sure, good representation. But when you pull out a lynching…

There’s also a history of men beating women up.

Thanks for confirming my hard earned tax dollars going to waste on a public defender busying herself on a blog instead of actually working on her government job.

I clicked through to read his statement and I don’t see where he explicitly insults anyone who believes her and not him. He goes out of his way to say that women should be believed as a matter of course in DV situations.

yeah i was hardcore bragging. i was not simply supplying your racist ass with facts. take off the pointed white sheet so you can see the screen better, sweetheart. choo choo

I made the mistake of moving in with my best friend and her boyfriend a couple years ago and it was horrifying realizing that the tiny woman I so dearly loved was a complete stranger. She abused her much larger boyfriend regularly, destroying his valuables, beating his face while he didn’t fight back, and then…

We get it Ernest, save that for the trial, stop posting on Kinja.
Never hit a woman, race has nothing to do with it. Stop trying to make this about race.

Yawn.

I get what you’re trying to say and agree that men of color are often assumed guilty until proven innocent.

The thing is, I don’t think it did go down exactly as he said (and his version is pretty overblown in his own favor). I don’t think it went down exactly as she said, either, but she is the one who ended up with stitches, yet he’s painting himself the victim when according to his narrative he didn’t lay a hand on her.

Nah. No. Hell, no.

Innocent until proven guilty is only a thing in court. It’s no one else’s fault that you misunderstand the concept. And you don’t seem to have white women’s backs, so why should they have yours?

don’t hit women don’t hit women don’t hit women don’t hit women don’t hit women don’t hit women

seems pretty clear this guy is as much an asshole as she is. pretty likely he hit her. we live in a society where hitting a (typically much) smaller woman is not acceptable.

I would suggest his (and hers) is not the hill to die on, no matter your cause.

It’s very telling that in her narrative, she admits to not being a saint and never asks anyone to take her side or attack him, while he plays the martyr who did nothing wrong, makes it about race (which is, conveniently, the theme of his maybe book) and explicitly insults anyone who believes her and not him. Typical.