My favorite female columnist brings the funk today....

It's completely fair.

I agree with him to the extent that any fringe player on a team is going to take a ration of crap from other players so how much of that is the normal assholeishness and how much is sexual harassment?

 

Amost all of it in this case is the latter. The former is an alibi.

 

That's another way to look at it.

 

(4) All paeans to Tony Romo, who has won about two more games than Anthony Dilweg.

As for Jemele, as a national columnist she is subject to justifiable criticism from her peers. It's part of being national. If she or her friends can't handle it, then step up to the line and say something -- anything -- other than "that was a good column!" or "she offers a different voice."

 

I liked the column.
It allows readers to plug back in with past newsmaker Katie Hnida.
Her rape allegation is, to me, believable. Harrassment allegations, too.
Football jocks are shitheads sometimes. Glad I'm done with the lockeroom.

 

first of all, wasn't Kathy Ireland the first woman to play Division I college football?

 

I didn't hate the column, but I didn't particularly like it. I didn't learn anything I didn't already know about Hnida. I learned new stuff about Jemele Hill, but so what?

The column I might have liked to read, though, is the one examining why Hnida chose to center her career -- her life -- around this incident. A book, public speaking tours, etc. Some people try to forget past horrors and move on; others like to focus on the incident, take ownership of it and share their story with friends and strangers alike. That would be Hill, and that would be Hnida...and the psychology behind that is what would really have interested me -- more than just the throwaway line about wanting to help other women confront similar problems. There's so much more there, and I think it could have been fascinating.

If anyone could've brought that to the surface effectively, wouldn't it have been Hill, given her similar experiences?

 

Pretty good column.

Hnida should've named her attacker then, and she should now. If she means to be a role model, that's what a role model does.

 

I've gotta disagree with you, Alma. I'm sure Hnida has a hard enough time dealing with this without the bullshit that would come from the attacker's camp. There's a reason why rape is so underreported, and it's got a whole hell of a lot to do with the attacks that are aimed at the victim by the perpetrators. Just her coming forward and talking openly about what happened to her takes an act of courage few people who haven't been sexually assaulted would understand.

 

Gotta disagree, too, Alma.

Doesn't matter if she's a public figure or not -- too many women in abuse/sexual assault situations face a very real fear of retribution. Hnida naming her attacker isn't going to serve as any model for them to emulate, because they often don't have that option.

Hnida showing them that there is no shame in being a victim of sexual assault, by telling her story and seeking justice ... that IS being a role model.

 

tough being a guy and weighing in on this one buck, but i gotta side with alma.

for me, some fuck who physically assaults a woman and blames it on his dick should be called out for being the piece of shit he actually is. if he did it to her, he's probably done it since.

 

He might need to be called out, but insisting that a woman who's been violated already should endure additional abuse by naming him is bullshit. Sorry guys, you haven't been there. Most of you never will (thank God).