The important thing is that you clicked on it.

What about those creeps that put cameras inside toilets... [Sorry I brought it up. But at least then you can't know who it is... *small comfort.] Wtf is wrong with these vile excuses of humans?

My favorite is "arse". Noun or verb! As in: "He can't be arsed to practice." *jelly*

He is the definition of "he can dish it out but he can't take it". Pathetic.

I'm surprised they even have them.

Who says that? I think you're hearing what you want to hear (what correponds to your set views).

This is just nitpicking – and pretty misguided at that. What's the point of your argument? White people can't act right no matter what, whether they care about equality or not? So then what do you suggest???

You forget about what's boiling inside of us (think: the temperament of the vikings).

Cats too.

These things are always pointing out how white people don't have any black friends. I don't understand the ridiculous way of presenting a one-sided "stat" that way – what point is the writer making? Because doesn't it go both ways? Because black people have a ton of white friends, right? Sure... And if they don't,…

SO punchable! If he had been (or stayed, rather) a nice mama's boy though, one would probably have been protective of him, because he doesn't look... strong.

This idea of a book deal is so convoluted. A book deal for relating (from his dumb, immature (-seeming) perspective) a deed that took all of what, 2 minutes? Seriously, that's a book? And some 20 more pages describing his inane tale of what he felt (not much, I'm guessing) during the aftermath of it all, when Ferguson…

But he's going to have to look over his shoulder for a really long time though (god willing), that's at least *some* comfort. Especially if he starts to live a flashy life, which this guy, judging by his interviews, is dumb enough to do (and how!).

And that is the typical pattern, is it? That this level of violence isn't going to happen again? Come on, he knocked her OUT, he didn't pull her hair. It's hardly irrational or "abusive" [not you but someone downthread] to think that it will happen again. Because that tends to be what does happen with abusers. It's…

we all sit here behind our computers and put labels on her and words in her mouth and it's just as bad and disempowering as what he's doing.

Especially when it's not a "fair fight"... Not only a woman vs. a man, who 99 times out of 100 is going to be stronger (after all the whole concept of patriarchy over the millenia pretty much boils down to men's superior physical strength. Tto this fucking day! Oh, how very sophisticated...). But as a (gargantuan)…

I very much prefer to be referred to as a victim rather than a 'survivor'.

Whatever people say or do when they're drunk – it's already in them. Acohol only lowers a person's inhibitions. It's not like some other foreign being takes them over. Violent drunks are violent people, even if they suppress it most of the time. Couples who fight when drunk: the booze only loosens their tongues...

There may be something to that. En eye-opener.

Why would you wish that on the women in the shelter?