I'm a guy and was average when young but now heading toward ech with age. Women always dated down for me. Not by my design, just random, usually initiated by them. It always ended up with them leaving me for someone more their physical equal. So I think I'm ready to say no next time unless they're more in my league…

You sound like one of those tea baggers who tell people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Let's see:

Perhaps. Though I was actually expecting to see more support/praise for him, because I've seen that here in the past, so I'm not sure I was biased, but it may have been sub conscious. I've read the positive now though, mostly down thread with no or few replies and a handful of stars compared to the up voted stuff…

As IamanFBlagent said, it's not at all about reward, it's simply about being recognised as existing. You played into what he said about cookies entirely.

OK here's the thing, I don't really understand how everything is nested and given priority on Kinja. I read only the comments that were on the initial page and the replies to those comments (expanding them all out). Only 1 or possibly 2 of the posts you linked there appeared in that lot. I don't know if that means the…

There is very very little support or concern or praise for the guy jumping in and getting beat up in this entire post. It sticks out like a sore thumb to me. It's all just "see, I told you".

This. I can't tell you how many times I've been told " shame on you " , and " shame on men " when I've suggested that some men don't step up because they don't want to be assaulted any more than the victim woman does. The loudest, most prominent voices still say things like ' what do you want, a cookie? ' , ' you…

They're denigrated by women, and beaten up by catcalling jerks. He did the right thing, absolutely, and he deserves a speedy recovery, but it's little wonder why we don't see more of that kind of behavior.This is the positive side of masculinity, and yet some would see it done away with too.

Yeah, fuck this guy, male tears amirite????? They're all evil!!

Fucking hell. So when a man is being and doing what a real man should be and do, this shit happens. All because some prick felt slighted that he was called out for being a prick. Fucking hell.

he already had the chance to be redeemed after his last prison sentence. It didn't work. Time for life in prison.

You know what I'm tired of? The intense need people have to shove poor white folks into the same category as poor black folks. Especially considering poor blue collar white folks were the arm that rich white folks most often used to antagonize black folks. The Chicago race riots come to mind. Blacks were often…

When you contribute to a culture that sees young black men as inherently dangerous, and that culture produces a constant stream of scenarios like this where young black men are shot dead by the police, or those who try to act like police, then yeah, its putting those young men in danger.

People generally don't respond well to racist insinuations...go figure.

Agreed. Much of the Jezebel community, and its staff, propagates the very culture that sees black men as intrinsically dangerous, and justifies a shoot first ask questions maybe never mentality. So I have to look at the treatment here very skeptically, when many of the same people commenting express one view here, and…

That's certainly possible, but I'm a pediatrician as well with an MPH to boot, and I'm pretty sure my reading comprehension is top notch. You wouldn't know that because I don't feel the need to brag about my credentials in my commenting handle.

No. I'm saying your choice of career is irrelevant when we're talking about issues of race and equality. I was responding to the part of your comment that said

I don't think they were suggesting you would literally harm their children. I'm assuming they meant that your problematic and shortsighted comment suggested that you don't see the bigger picture and feed into the kind of mentality that leads to events like these taking place.

The whole point of these posts is to point out the disparity between what happened and the official story, your comment is lazy at best and a hateful lie at worst.