It's been eight days since the Super Bowl and I'm just beginning - and I do mean beginning - to come out of my Great Depression following the Great McCarthy Collapse.
As I watched the Patriots luck out a win I couldn't help to comment to the other Packerbackers I was watching the game with that the Packers would have won their fifth Lombardi Trophy. I was immediately shut down and told not to go there. But I did. The Packers would have beat the Patriots. I have no doubt.
So knowing that fact I'm still in a depressed mood and will be for some time. Normally I could dwell in the shadow of the Valley of Death until the draft, but thanks to McCarthy we have stuff to talk about. And I would have been talking about the firing of the special teams coach and the possible relinquishing of the play playing by the man himself other matters were settled today in the NFL and I feel compelled to comment on them first.
Today Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy's appeal of his conviction of domestic abuse was dismissed because the hittee wouldn't pursue the matter. While it's bad enough this sad excuse for a man gets to resume his career at some point after - in his mind - being found not guilty, it says more to the sad state of the modern woman in our society.
Ever since the women's liberation movement and all the gains women have won as they escaped the home and entered the business world comes crashing down because of women like Hardy's whatever she was or Ray Rice's fiancée and all the women and girls who work the sex trade as strippers or online sex girls - I'm not counting actual prostitutes because...well for this argument that end of the spectrum is left off the table - and the entire trillion dollar legitimate women's industry.
What am I saying? When women first entered the business world they had to put up with sexual harassment and pressure to sleep with their supervisors to just get ahead or just to get the job to begin with. For each woman who resisted the easy way in there were 10 who didn't. It was because of them that women are still not taken as seriously as they should be. Men still look upon women as a sexual objects by reducing them to just their tits, ass and overall beauty.
There is a case for giving men a break on this matter because this how women see themselves. For every dollar spent by women improving their minds they spend $1,000 on their outsides. Hair, makeup, diet products and clothes are geared toward sex appeal. All the magazines talk about how to get a man or how to give better sex or just how to look better.
Just look online and what do you find. Let's just jump past the women's market because that is just an extension of the TV and print. Let's jump directly to the online sex which is another trillion dollar industry. In just the chat room segment of that industry there must be at least a million girls live every hour of every day. Sadly they can make more money in a day than they can make in a month working a legitimate job.
One 20-year girl from Australia in particular made enough in a short time to buy a house and all she has to do is be naked and masturbate while talking to guys . No actual contract with anyone.
While it says volumes about the girls it may say more about the poor schmucks who shell out real money to just look. Those guys are as tragic as the girls. At least those girls are in a segment of the sex industry where they don't get diseased or abused or killed on a daily basis. Good for them, I guess.
But I digress. On the lower end of the scale I do see some improvement. At the high school level over the past two years more girls have brought sexual assault cases to court and have won more or less. Of course, for every gang rape case there are a 1,000 date rapes that do not get reported. You still find some deluded school administrators who care more about their sports teams than they do about the girls who attend their schools.
The girls are pressured into silence by figuring out that the process is more like being raped all over again with less than a 10 percent chance of winning and even it they do win they are ostracized by their community instead being congratulated for bringing a rapist to the justice thusly saving other girls from going through the trauma.
Or threatened with further physical harm by the people who should be caring for them. Being a girl in today's or yesterday's society is a losing proposition. Boys grow up thinking a girl is a reward while a girl growing up thinks she is an object to be had than an equal human being.
Back to the current Mrs. Rice. How sad that money is more important that physical safety. Being knocked out meant nothing to her. I'm guessing this was not the first time she'd been hit. If he felt so empowered to knock her out in a public place just imagine what it must be like in private. Just watch the video how nonchalantly he just clocked her and then, as if he's done this 100's of time, he picked her up and moved on with the rest of the evening. That video should put a chill up every women's spine. That is a prime example of today's privileged class and it's attitudes toward women. Just another day at the office.
The reward of living with a millionaire is obviously worth the risk of being beat up to Mrs. Rice. Her outrage of having her meal ticket taken away said a lot about her values and how she values herself.
Back to Hardy's whatever. She was either bought off or scared off or both. Hardy - and Rice for that matter - should be banned for life from the NFL (at the very least) for putting a hand or fist on a woman. In some respects that is sexist, but those who think that are the guys who beat up women or feel that some how they made me do it or deserved it for mouthing off or dissing their manhood. Abusers are abusers. Plain and simple. Banned for life or maybe better banned from life.
Hardy's whatever not showing up struck a nerve with me. The high school principle who tried to hush up the rape of a girl by some of the football team struck another nerve. Mrs. Rice standing by her man with $ signs her in eyes struck another nerve. Lawrence Phillips almost killing his athlete girlfriend by dragging down concrete stairs by her hair and leaving her scarred for life and he gets drafted in the first round that struck my first nerve 20 years ago. Finally the people in the communities who hate on a girl for being raped by the local athletic heroes strike the rest of my nerves.
I won't forget about the poor girls and women who are killed or destroyed by their significant others or dates, but until women decided enough is enough and rally around themselves there's not much society can do. It all begins with women and girls helping themselves. I will be the first one to stand with them when they do, but until that happens life goes on for most of us. However I shed a tear for all the others who can't move on as their abusers retain their fame and fortune.
With all of that going on it seems kind of trivial to be talking about the Packers. But what else can a person do, so tomorrow I will be back to talk about the off-season and how I see things going or not.
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