It’s like the bumbling-husband trope: men can’t be expected to [clean dishes/care for children/pay bills/not rape women], so women will just have to pick up the slack.

Simply, it’s a lame ass excuse to allow them to detach themselves from their actions and insulate their fragile ego regarding how weak they really are.

It’s an instant excuse to do what shitty thing they want and just deny it away.

Because it helps them get away with things, that’s why.

Ok, I have starred several of your posts just in this article. You are excellent. BRAVO!

The National Cattleman’s Beef Association should ban him from eating ribeyes, as well.

It’s like the douchebags who say, “Humans aren’t built for monogamy and I have no control over how many women I want to sleep with.”

It seems to stem from the same mindset that puts women in burkas, as any glimpse of a female will wipe out male self-control. It isn’t just idiotic, but a crude way to absolve rapists/assailants of any guilt.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

This motherfucker makes a lot of terrible split second decisions, eh?

That’s ... interesting.

Am I the last person to find out that Turner had a prior arrest related to alcohol?

How did you get a copy of our playbook?!

Since the judge made this little criminal’s potential career an excuse for his slap-on-the-wrist sentence, this only makes the whole thing even more inexcusable.

I don’t understand why anyone would want to send him to the Olympics, even if this hadn’t happened. Can you travel internationally like that if you’re on a sex offender registry?

If not for two awesome dudes on bikes, Americans might very well be rooting for this asshole this summer. No one would have known, including his victim. Thank you awesome biker guys.

Probably for the best. As his statement read, being good at swimming was also part of that gateway that led him to being a rapist.

This article gives me hope that entitled athletes who think they are immune will finally be held accountable for being pieces of shit

This is amazing! I feel like people like this won’t listen unless it hits them somewhere that it really hurts- their futures. Rapists deserve to carry the burden of what they did every day, just like they forced their victims to. Along with the judge being under increased scrutiny in the upcoming election, this is a…

You know there is so much bitching about the supposed “outrage culture”, but sometimes that outrage actually gets shit done! This guy got off easy, but at least now there’s going to be a little more misery in his life than there otherwise would have been.