Joe Mixon's apology

[Shake n Blake]

(04-29-2017, 09:49 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Honestly...I think, based on his interview, he learned the wrong lesson.

At the risk of sounding like a chauvinist, the statement "It is NEVER okay to hit a woman. Ever. In any circumstance." is not only a cop out but also just...***** stupid.

This is, in my opinion, a different form of sexism. Not towards men, but towards women. By making this statement, you're basically calling them lesser.

The assumption there is that women are, by definition, helpless and need to be protected by the bigger, stronger gender of this race. Women can't handle their own conflicts and should be treated like children.

I think we can all agree that in this particular situation, he should not have hit that woman. But, if a woman is wielding a knife or gun and yelling at you and threatening you.  Or, to take it down a degree, is capable of harming you physically in any other way. By all means. Please. Hit that woman. It may save your life.

Just a side comment as I've heard that statement before and I find it very...I don't really have a word for it other than frustrating. Sexism exists because men see themselves as higher than women. This is just an advanced form of that viewpoint.

As for the player himself and all that he has said, I think he's shown he's sorry and ashamed and he hasn't really had anything happen since other than apparently tearing up a ticket and throwing it in a parking attendant's face (a feeling any person who's encountered a parking attendant can relate to). While I was disappointed that we drafted him, because I personally don't need more controversy for this team in the wake of Adam Jones' dumbassery...I will root for him. He's part of the team now. Let's hope he has no transgressions for the rest of his life.

The unbridled truth is that women are lesser than men physically, and feminists just want things both ways. If a woman attacks you, I was raised that I should defend myself. That said, it's against my nature to treat an attack from a woman the same as an attack from a man. With a woman, I will almost always use the minimum force necessary to stop her from attacking me. Tbh, I'm not likely to ever punch a woman when I can easily shove them and get them to stop. 

A small push and a slap is not enough of an attack to justify the level of force he used, IMO....but it does make her a less than innocent figure and it makes what Mixon did SLIGHTLY more understandable. Key on "slightly". I'm not saying it made what he did okay...in my eyes. But I understand some are raised to believe once a woman attacks a man, she loses her woman card temporarily.