I agree that Brady’s comments may not be as bad as they sound. Certainly, Brady can sympathize with a man who has made bad choices while also being appalled at his behavior. The problem is that Brady vomited up a word salad to avoid saying what he really means. It’s just not worth parsing this shit to try and…

I hate the patriots like every other good American, but I think this is more of a result of Brady being clueless and frankly just dumb. He has no idea what he’s saying or what it might meAn. Does that give him a pass? Of course not. But it’s rank sheltered stupidity, not malice, as I see it.

As much as I hate these entitled jocks getting away with abuse/murder/whatever (to the point that sports means a lot less to me than it did even a few years ago), I am more and more leaning to letting things play out in civil/criminal court before the teams/league take any action.

TBF, everyone has a voice now can be a negative when that voice is being wielded by actual, literal Nazis. But yeah, it came off like “it’s too bad these frigid bitches won’t just take their raping silently like in the good old days” to me.

Ignorant people publishing their uninformed opinions about anything and everything is a positive thing in your estimation?

Obviously and of course it is good that victims who have traditionally been ignored are getting more attention now (not to say that particular problem is “fixed”, but it’s certainly more visible, which is great).

Calling Ben Carson “exceptionally brilliant” and “demonstrably mediocre” is an insult to both the exceptionally brilliant and the demonstrably mediocre.

Mediocre...someone was feeling generous today.

*Adrian Peterson takes notes*

LOL, I think the haters are reaching now. How did you get that out of that answer? I would go listen to the interview first. He was talking about innocent before proven guilty. Which he is right about btw. We’ll see if you agree when you’re falsely accused of a crime and nobody believes your ass.

Except Carson wasn't even that good at what he did. They made him a professor because the malpractice suits were getting too expensive. 

Iiiiiiiiiiiiin West Philadelphia

I guess when you’ve just been catching kids thrown/dropped from a burning building, you’ve earned the chance to diss local sports men.

Hypocrite.

“You can just throw them out of windows??”

Speaking as a fan, it’s just escapist entertainment. In an often-depressing world where sexual violence is endemic and justice is rare, it’s nice to visit an imaginary world where the police are sympathetic and morally upstanding, the victims always get vindicated, and the bad guys always get caught.

There have been studies about these kinds of things and it’s just normal people. It’s the same reason that people watch slasher films or children read fairy tales where other children are brutally murdered, you get to channel your fears and anxieties through a fictional narrative.

Also, apparently, people who watch SVU …

And the scene where Liv pretends to be a sex worker and Stabler is her john and she’s draped all over him in lingerie? WHOO!

That’s the one referenced above where Benson plays Stabler’s hooker and they pretend to have just hooked up when Stabler’s contact arrives.

As a survivor, I can safely say that Mariska Hargitay and Raul Esparza have more than once saved me from losing myself in the darkness of the aftermath of my assault. I will never not be grateful to the writers for this: “whether you’re a john in the South Bronx or a $3-million-a-year talk show host, no means no.”