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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI don\u2019t follow sports. But I\u2019d have to be Amish not to know Ray Rice pummeled his fianc\u00e9 and dropped her unconscious body trying to drag her out of an elevator on camera or that Adrian Peterson has been accused of whipping his 4 year old with a switch till he drew blood on the fronts and backs of his thighs and sent a text message to the boy\u2019s mother saying he got the boy\u2019s scrotum by mistake. I figure this is all for the courts and the NFL to sort out.
\nBut tonight, at my parents\u2019 house, watching Fox Business, there it is– The difference between what Rice (allegedly) did and what Peterson (allegedly) did. I saw a man (who may or may not have some football background) tell the other hosts or guests that the difference between Rice beating his wife and Anderson beating his son is that Rice punched his WIFE and Anderson was disciplining his son. Are you kidding me? Evidently there is some kind of consensus like this out there. Rice is a monster and Anderson is just some dad like the rest of us trying to get his kid to mind.
\nFirst of all, I don\u2019t understand the comparison AT ALL. That\u2019s like comparing salt in the wound to tabasco sauce in your wound. Like asking if you\u2019d rather be cut with a razor blade or a k-bar. Dude. I\u2019m pretty sure both suck. I supposed the talking heads are trying to justify the NFL\u2019s response to either situation but why?
\n But, since we are keeping score, whipping your kid till he bleeds in a fit of rage is worse than knocking out your wife.
\nRice\u2019s wife, like most wives in the U.S., is an adult. Yes, being abused causes all kinds of emotional problems that mess up your thinking but in the end, a woman is still an adult. She is an adult who chooses to stay or go. I chose to stay. For over 10 years. Right, wrong, indifferent. I chose. She chooses. Women can choose. Sometimes they fight back. Sometimes they even start it. I know I did.
\nIf they do leave, women have the benefit of having overcome. Having gotten away. Of being free. A child does not have that benefit.
\nThat little boy, stripped naked and whipped by a damned NFL football player. He cannot choose. He cannot fight back. He cannot run. He can\u2019t even hide. A child cannot defend himself. There is much debate about the propriety of spanking and pretty much any punishment these days. But can we all agree, that if someone whips a kid till he bleeds, not in just one place, but in a dozen, that that kid has been abused? Mistreated? And an abused kid has no hope for relief until he is finally a man. Would there be more outrage if it was a little girl, stripped naked and whipped?<\/p>\n
The man who beat his wife- and showed no remorse when he knocked her out, he\u2019s a monster. The man who whipped his boy till he bled is a monster. Let\u2019s add to this list the apologists who claim it\u2019s a man\u2019s right to wound his child in the name of discipline. You sir, are also a monster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"