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The Pussy Boss posted:The only person that can ever "forgive" Josh Lueke is his victim. As far as all of our own personal opinions go, then, consider all of the following: -- he plead out to a lesser charge and didn't serve a fraction of the sentence one typically gets for rape -- he has never publicly shown the merest hint of remorse about it, and instead has tried to rehab his image with cynical appeals to Christianity All of this is beside the point that this article links the "redemption" of a rapist to athletic performance, which is loving absurd. It's garbage rape apologia and it's not worthy of your defense.
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It's true that people joke about murder and death and terrorism and all that quite often, but if you consider the rate of reported rapes and sexual assault, on top of whatever inestimable amount goes unreported, the odds are uncomfortably high that someone you know, or someone at some large social gathering, is a survivor of them. You're probably not hanging around with any murder survivors. Knowing the full scope of the kind of trauma and triggering a dumb rape joke/metaphor/comparison could inflict, the only human thing to do is to just not be a shithead and make one, which is the easiest thing really. With cancer I suppose the frequency argument isn't really effective, but plenty of cancer patients/survivors use levity to help deal with their struggles (Tig Notaro exhibit A); that is categorically not true for survivors of rape/sexual assault. Like Gendo said, each of these categories of horrible things that happen are unique and have their own sets of baggage, but in the case of rape/sexual assault the damage that can be done is completely obvious to anyone who spends more than a minute researching the topic. It's stupidly easy to just respect that and to help people feel safe around you, so easy that if you choose not to you're pretty much actively deciding to be a prick. As far as using the word "rape" with regards to sports trades/victories, there are a million and a half words you can use to convey that someone or some team got destroyed. If someone chooses that particular one out of a sea of possibilities it's blindingly obvious they're doing it to be edgy, and are therefore a total shithead.
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just read it http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201304/buzz-bissinger-shopaholic-gucci-addiction?currentPage=1 then look at this gallery http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/11/07/buzzs-outfits/#photo-1
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Mar 26, 2013 14:40
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USAToday is launching a new "social sports site" called For The Win oh my god I can't stop vomiting http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/22/social-sports-site-by-usa-today-aims-for-fans-non-fans-alike/
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VERRRDUUUCCCIIIIIIquote:Welcome to the state of the art in hitting these days, where aggressiveness is disdained and passivity is exalted. The modern hitter is guided by the accepted wisdom in catchphrases such as "driving up pitch counts," "taking pitches" and "quality at-bats." There is one serious flaw in this groupthink strategy.
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Apr 24, 2013 17:43
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As a Christian white male over 50, I
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sportsgenius86 posted:Wright Thompson oh neat I'll go ahead and check hi- https://twitter.com/wrightthompson/status/359650958390734848 @wrighthompson posted:Would this be an effective PED punishment? Immediate lifetime ban and erasure of all records: You weren't ever a big leaguer.
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Tender Bender posted:Having barely followed the NL this year, what's the deal with Puig? He's really good and makes an error now and then and so the media hates him? He MISSES THE CUTOFF MAN so he needs to be "broken" and "tamed" and no I'm not using coded language why would you sa
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Damon Bruce is a sports talk bro who went on an awful tirade about how womens' involvement in sports is ruining everything. Rob Neyer wrote a bunch of tweets defending him, because he like, had met the guy before, and now wrote a big hilariously awful column about it: http://www.baseballnation.com/hot-corner/2013/11/11/5089986/damon-bruce-knbr-san-francisco-radio-sports-host-womenquote:We've all got our limits. But some people would prefer to wipe hate speech from the public consciousness completely, and I'm pretty sure that's the wrong answer. The optimal level of hate speech? I don't think anyone can say.
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