“THIS IS OUR LIFE!” Janay Rice wrote today on her Instagram account, according to ESPN. “If your intentions were to hurt us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you’ve succeeded on so many levels.”
“To make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret everyday is a horrible thing,” she wrote. “To take something away from the man I love that he has worked his ass off for all his life just to gain ratings is horrific.”
Her husband is, of course, Ray Rice, who has been cut from the Baltimore Ravens football team and who the NFL has suspended indefinitely, after video emerged of him slugging her in an elevator. But Janay Rice has a point.
We should all stay out of their personal business. I don't know a damn thing about Ray Rice. I have no idea if it was out of character for him to slug her, if she gets off on that stuff or she puts up with a lot because the money is very good. But it is for her to decide, and no one else, on how she wants to deal with a flagrant violation of the non-aggression principle. If she wants to stay with him, she should be free to do so, if she doesn't, that's also her call. If anyone should be giving her advice, it should be parents and close friends., that's about it.
Of course, the feministas are going to have a field day with this and paint all men as urban primitives. For the record, I have never punched a women and I am very unlikely to do so (even if I run into Elizabeth Warren).
That said, women going into these relationships are not necessarily clueless. I once dated, a few times, a women who had previously dated for an extended period Andrew Golota. During one of our dates, she told me that she was very stubborn and always demanded her way with men. I asked her how that tact worked with Golota. She laughed and said, "Well there are some guys you just don't do that with."
There is a semi-well known actress in Los Angeles who has a deep indentation on one of her breast implants. When I asked her about it, she told me that it was caused by the thumb of a major league athlete ( I would classify this guy as very strong). She seemed to wear it as a badge of honor.
In other words, there are all kinds of nutty things going on and unless someone involved is objecting, we should stay the hell out of their business.
As for the NFL, they do have a public relations problem with the public thinking the league is composed of nothing but urban primitives, so it makes sense for them to distance themselves from such barbaric behavior. That said, there is a fine line between dealing with an image problem and kowtowing to the feministas. I'm glad I am not the commissioner of the NFL, who has to deal with this kind of insanity.
-RW
Anyone who understands anything about the basic nature of (most) women is not at all surprised that she married him and is staying with him after being slugged. Most men don't do it because they themselves believe it is wrong, not because they think their women wouldn't like or accept it.
ReplyDeleteTrue enough. It is their own business. People should stay out. But they never do. Ever. Someone always has a conflicting opinion to our own views and as well as the words we use to describe our actions. Ray Rice knows, as does his wife Janay, that the cameras are on them 24/7. It goes with the territory. To expect privacy particularly with an embarrassing event caught on tape sounds to me like it's feigned indignity and an absolute awareness of the cameras directed at a select group of the audience that matters most. I like that she came to his defense. Vis-a-vis the league and the Ravens, her defense of her husband is smart politically. It does several things. One, it says to her man that I got your back. Two, it gives credence to Wenzel's point that his aggression is not characteristic but a one-time incident. Three, it attempts to make the very public video-taped event a private matter albeit a very embarrassing one. It's just that violence and assault is ironically a liability for the league's image. Telling people to but out seemed like a pretty good attempt at damage control for both of them. In the long-run, I don't see how either of them can play this down. It's awful that it's on tape.
ReplyDeleteAs some know, now the liberals at TMZ are claiming that the NFL saw the tape prior to everything thats gone down in the past week. The sports world is speculating that if true it may spell the end for Roger Goodell
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