"If I could just get my hands on @MichelleDBeadle right now, I'd demonstrate EXACTLY what I was trying to say!"

Frequent meat-head Schlareth also pretty emphatically blasted the leniency of the suspension.

I have just been hiding in my office instead.

If ever you feel the need to get violent in an argument and have been provoked to the point of violence, HIT YOURSELF! then call the cops and say the woman was beating you and you didnt want to hit back and that you were trying to defend yourself... they will probably take your side, and your woman will think your…

But she likes that Floyd Mayweather lives her life. Not saying she shouldn't be pissed about the Ray Rice situation and how the media has fallen in rank to not piss off the NFL's piss awful decision, but some consistency would be nice. I don't know, has she since said she regretted what she said to Floyd at the ESPYS?

Sure you might say it is an insenstive response but do you think the person who says "Well, why are you provoking thieves by not locking the door?" as you put it is defending the thief? Is it possible to be 100% against car theft and also ask a variant of the above question.

please explain to me whats wrong with "not provoking" a guy to spare yourself from being hurt?! stephen a was clear about how wrong/criminal it is for a guy to hit a girl. he was not eluding from the fact that ray rice was wrong and it should never happen. he was adamant about how much of a SIN hitting women is, you…

So is the general consensus here that Steven A Smith is

The matter becomes more nebulous if she put her hands on him first, and what that actually means. Returning a slap with a punch is a crime prima facie. As a counterpoint, Warren Moon's wife kneed him in the groin and tried to hit him in the head with a candelabra, in what I can only assume was a Clue LARP gone…

Stop trying to be pragmatic. You'll find no friends here.

People act as though men should be stoic rocks capable of absorbing any and all punishment. A punch in the face hurts. An enraged woman with a knife or other blunt object in hand (I've seen it happen) can kill. Not all domestic violence cases are a result of provocation, but in the cases that are, where is the line?…

I feel that there are a good amount of women that treat men like shit because of this whole "you can't touch women" clause we've put on society. I am not advocating abuse at all, it's wrong. Plain and simple. Sometimes though, women will provoke men to the breaking point, whether it be with words or physical actions,…

And never at any point does he say it's her fault, or that it was the right retaliation, or anything of the sort. He's instead trying to look at it pragmatically. What sort of things happened to lead up to Ray Rice hitting her and how can those be signs for pitfalls to avoid in the future?

I don't see how it's any…

This is naive of me, but I think his overall point isn't that women need to not piss men off or else will face a beating. I think what he was trying to say (poorly) is that avoidance of situations where assault is possible should be the goal.

*puts on helmet*

(It was her horse.)

For all the criticism lobbed at the people disagreeing with you, you just avoided my point entirely. You asked for proof that gays have been discriminated against, by society and/or government. Matthew Shepard is one of the many people who have been violently repressed and even killed for being who they are. The…

I guess I missed the part where the NFL was a religious organization. Also, Dungy's words could have been used in almost the exact same way decades ago for not wanting to let black athletes into the NFL.

But but but but they might start showing games on TV and reporters will show up in the locker room and fans will be in the stadium making loud noises! That's distracting!

I agree, ESPN is moving away from journalism and more into the editorial space. A lot of this can be contributed to its website though. I get my news from headlines rather then waiting for that section on MJD's status to finally hit the bottom of the screen, only to go to commercial.