First let me say I’m a feminist. This is going to be a feminist rant of sorts. If you’ve read my stuff or you know me personally you know I’m not a big sports fan. I think we treat our male sports figures as gods and let them get away with things they shouldn’t get away with.
My daughter was telling me about a young football player who was going to school on a scholarship. He had a confrontation with a woman and hit her. As a woman I find this horrible. No one has the right to hit another person. The school kicked him out and revoked his scholarship. He was charged with a misdemeanor.
I think the school overreacted a bit if this was his first incident of domestic violence. However, I can understand why they did it.
I’ve looked up the video – yes I actually looked up a sports thing. I watched the video. He bumped into her at a bar. She turned to him with her fist raised. He grabbed her arm to stop her from hitting him. She then hit him with her other fist. He slapped (I think) her. Now he’s a guy and should know better than to hit a woman. However, she wasn’t charged with anything.
Women are not above the law. She assaulted him. He assaulted her and should be and has been punished. As far as I’m aware, nothing happened to her. If we as women want to be equal we have to know that our action have consequences. So when we do something wrong, we should get punished for it.
He did something wrong. His team, school, and the police took appropriate action and he’s dealing with the consequences of his actions.
She should have to deal with the consequences of her actions as well. Why wasn’t she charged as well? She should have been charged with a misdemeanor as well.
There were all sorts of wrong things done in this incident. He was wrong to hit a woman – I can’t say that enough. She was wrong to hit anyone. He was punished appropriately. She was not. This is not equitable. She should also have been charged and should be punished appropriately.
As women we cannot expect to get away with doing wrong simply because we are women. Yes we need protection from the violence but if we commit violence, we need to pay the price. Woman up! Woman up and admit you did wrong and take your punishment.