I mean really what is one woman’s life when you have a football game to win and hundreds of millions on the line? Fucking sickening. I honestly can’t imagine how women are fans of the NFL when they continually protect these men.

...oh sorry, just my “passionate and baggage-laden” response to that.

It’s extra galling because people KNOW it’s bullshit, but they prefer to do nothing— nothing that’d prevent them getting their sportsball. Instead, they shrug and go “Oh well, nothing’ll happen to him because of all that money and fame, and he’ll surely commit the same crime again later because of it. But *SHRUG*…

Ah yes. Baggage. Beating the hell out of a woman and throwing her onto a pile of guns isn’t a big deal, especially if you can tackle a man throwing a football.

Wow. Just... I don’t even know what to say. I’ll just shake my head.

Passion and baggage = criminal behavior? Jerks.

If you are in an abusive relationship, get help.

This is as important a story as Deadspin has ever done. My contempt for Hardy, Jones and Goodell is matched only by my admiration for Diana’s epic reporting.

Did I wake up in some alternate universe in which presidential candidates WANT people to believe they’ve stabbed someone and hit their mother with a hammer?? I’m losing my mind right?? Are we dead??

It is an issue in SSA in particular because of echoes of ideas that W. Bush and Pope Benedict had that it would be great to not emphasize using a freaking condom. The approach for preventing HIV/AIDS was Abstain, Be faithful, use a Condom (ABC!). In that order. Because using condoms makes God cry, so it should only be…

The story is so much more exciting than the video.

THANK YOU.

precisely. It might be less of a crisis for white western men, but it’s still threatening to cripple whole nations. Transmission even in developed countries is still considered out of control (a report this week suggest London is in for another wave of diagnoses because of chemsex).

We live in a world where HIV isn’t a crisis? What world are you living in?

She’s updated her IG photo to explain that he was standing next to him, not sitting on his lap.

Adding a bunch of hyperbolic irrational stuff like that totally makes me inclined to discount anything else she has to say about the events. I understand being reaaaally fucking riled up if something like this happened to me, but I can’t imagine going on a multi-day online smackdown spree and throwing out completely…

Woman gets assaulted. Her male friend comes to her aid and fights the attacker. Woman maces attacker’s girlfriend and then she and her friends chase the attacker(s?) down the street. Third party watches the street fight between those two groups and wisely decides not to get in the middle of it. This could have been…

You will get roofied.

Her own version of the events is poking holes in the story she posted on Tumblr. She and a friend were in a fight with a couple, she maced them, and then got indignant when the bar they happened to be in front of wanted nothing to do with their noise? It seems like she has a massive chip on her shoulder, what with…