Well, other than fricking DISNEY, one of the largest motion picture companies ever, who’s made about a jillion dollars out of him.

It’s not funny anymore to me. I mean, yeah, it is, because the comments on these articles are always hilarious. But I’ve gone from Manziel fan (I’m an A&M alum) to Manziel apologist (“You’ll see! He’s not Ryan Leaf 2.0!”) to Manziel hater (“Okay, I was wrong. He’s an idiot.”). And now I’m firmly in the “worried…

And my mom just died at 60, which was 3 years older than her mother. My best friends grandma is 93. So it means absolutely nothing that you know a few people who are 80.

I’m guessing either she or her husband has an illness and want to handle it quietly and alone vs fighting these cases for another 5 years. The stress…

My father died from colon cancer the year I graduated college. It was not sudden. We knew it was coming, slowly, for nearly 2 years. It seems crass to some people when I say we were relieved.

Since you’re the smartest one here why don’t you come up with one?

So you’re all for this? Or are you just trolling to feed your inner troll?

Also, “teach him” is a very misguided phrase. It’s easy to fuck a kid up. It’s much harder to teach them good from bad and right from wrong.

Dude, fuck almond milk. It’s too thin and almonds are bullshit.

Exactly. I mean, he paid those kids 200 million dollars. Do people still think he didn’t do anything?

In their report, authorities described photos of children bleeding, in pain and tormented.

There is literally no way for them to get the help and support they need to put what was done to them behind them. I work with abused kids for a living—the best we can ever hope to do is mitigate some of the damage.

Right? I feel like I could have lived the rest of my life just not knowing that information at all. :-/

Seriously. There are no words for how disgusting and inexcusable that is.

I’ll paraphrase a quote from William Petersen in Manhunter: “As a child, my heart bleeds for him. Someone took a little boy and turned him into a monster. But as an adult... as an adult, he’s irredeemable..........As an adult, I think someone should blow the sick fuck out of his socks.”

Let’s put it into perspective: yes, his father was abusive. Yes, you could say that the way he was a child star made it so he never had a childhood.

not to be a complete jerk, but I honestly feel like this attitude is why we still have such a long way to go with how CSA is dealt with and why there are so, so, so, so many abusers who get away with is for decades and decades and have scores and scores of victims: because it is uncomfortable and upsetting and a lot…

White privilege

So, uh... Can we stop worshiping this shitbrick as some sort of legend now?

You’re right. I don’t know this woman’s life. But it did strongly feel to me as though her family leaked this because they wanted the conversation to pivot from “How could anyone have helped this monster?” to “She didn’t understand fully what she was doing.”

If she didn’t know it was wrong, why did she try to stop him?