This is irrelevant to the topic at hand, and assumes I’m advocating “giving up” on anyone.

As I’ve already said, I believe in rehabilitation. I do not see this young man’s sentencing as consistent with the goals of ensuring that he not only never does such a thing ever again but grows as a human being capable of…

I too want young men to acheive their goals. I don’t think allowing them to pretend a serious violent crime they committed is consequence-free. Not only is it harmful to the larger community, I don’t believe it serves him either.
Furthermore, the victim involved lives in the same shithole, and yet your concern for…

Don’t create strawmen, keep to the opinions I’ve stated.

Do you believe that this young man has turned himself around in 10 months? What evidence do you have to suggest it?
Do you believe that allowing him to return to his school, his team, with zero evidence that he has materially taken responsibility for his actions…

Whether or not he served his time is irrelevant. Serving time doesn’t expunge your record nor make you suitable for whatever endeavor you so desire. Sportball enthusiasts love to talk about “character on and off the field” - yet here we are excusing yet another young man for assaulting a woman because he happens to be…

Show any evidence of contrition? Restructure his life in a way that seeks to undo the harm he did? Focus any part of his narrative on the life he sought to damage rather than himself?

so you think his sentence was acceptable? because we’re not a judges or a court of law here in the Jezebel comments section. here, its merely the court of public opinion. and the question isn’t CAN he, but SHOULD he. given those parameters, your comment insinuates 1) that his short sentence was appropriate and 2) that…

Still my favorite monologue in the history of all cinema. No, that is not hyperbole.

weird how there are entire magazines devoted to this topic then, huh?

This is the exact same thing I always think when I read that too. I’ve learned it says way more about the person saying such a thing than the subject of their ire.

This and the thread that follows might be the best thing I’ve ever read on this site.

Congratulations - you’re young enough that you don’t go to funerals once a month.

You don’t think that financially supporting and guiding an apparatus that gave voice to aforementioned crackpots in no way help bring the fringe into the mainstream? There’s a myriad of studies that have proven otherwise - namely, that people’s political leanings and the extremism of those beliefs is very much…

As stated earlier, I was not calling for his death nor celebrating a violent or untimely end which, I agree, is morally wrong. By my estimation, the impetus of human decency supports celebration far more than defense. I think the world is better off without him in it, just as I find defending him reprehensible. Being…

I’m not sure that this supposedly universal convention is quite so universal, tbh. I’m no anthropologist, but I’d hazard a guess than across cultures and over time, you’ll find multiple systems for processing grief or responding to death. There’s a lot of problems attendant to assuming a Western standard of…

Agreed. I also think that rational people can make exceptions when the the person in question left the country and the world a far worse place for having been in it. The damage Ailes has done, from the women he sexually harassed to the millions swayed by his particular brand of bullshit, leaves him with a substatial…

You clearly have never been on a date with a dude as unstable as this motherfucker clearly is. She was scared, and his unhinged response shows her fears were not unfounded. More than one person has said that she’s lucky he didn’t Buffalo-Bob-from-Silence-of-the-Lambs her. Saying a woman who says she was scared in a…

Jimmy Kimmel used to co-host this piece of trash

The issue is when a dude talks at length about preferring the company of men and not enjoying the company of women, it hard to continue to think of such a man as heterosexual.

Of all the dumb shit I’ve read from dumbshit commenters on this website, this is BY FAR the dumbest. I feel stupider in so many ways.

Which means he almost certainly is a goddamned deviant. Nice Guys™ are the devil