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Abortion Pill Now Available Without Doctor's Visit! Georgia's 6-Week Abortion Ban Blocked! Hooray!
Yesterday was a pretty good day for reproductive rights.
July 14, 2020 09:30 AM
Yesterday was a good day for reproductive rights — the kind of days that are very few and far between these days. One federal judge permanently blocked Georgia's bill banning abortion after six weeks, and another ruled that the the abortion pill can be prescribed and obtained without a visit to the doctor's office.
The author of the Georgia six-week abortion ban, state Rep. Ed Setzler, said he felt the law met legal standards and that he was attempting to establish the "personhood" of a fetus based on when its heart began to beat — because that sounds like just the kind of thing that might tug at someone's heart strings and make it easier to ban abortion. Since many people don't even know that they are pregnant before six weeks, the law essentially bans all abortion.
Of course, "fetal pole cardiac activity," as ob-gyn Jennifer Kerns explained to Wired earlier this year, is not so much a heartbeat as it is "is a group of cells with electrical activity. That's what the heartbeat is at that stage of gestation. […] We are in no way talking about any kind of cardiovascular system."
<p>US District Judge Steven Jones did not buy Rep. Setzler's argument, did not think it met any "legal standards," and, in a 67-page ruling, laid out how the law violated the Fourteenth Amendment, stating, "it is in the public interest, and is this court's duty, to ensure constitutional rights are protected. The state of Georgia's abortion laws that were in effect prior to [this law] remain in effect."</p><p>Love you, district court Judge Steven Jones. </p><p>Up north in Maryland, US District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled that the in-person requirements to obtain the abortion pill — meaning that in order to get a medical abortion, you have to go to the doctor and the doctor has to personally give it to you and then you have to sign a form saying you understand the risks — were a "substantial obstacle" during the current pandemic, thus violating the constitutional rights of those seeking a medication abortion. </p><p>This is obviously a very good thing, because no one should have to risk their lives going to a doctor's office during a pandemic to get an abortion.</p><p>Via <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/judge-women-abortion-pill-doctor-visits-71755793" target="_blank">ABC News:</a></p><blockquote>"Particularly in light of the limited timeframe during which a medication abortion or any abortion must occur, such infringement on the right to an abortion would constitute irreparable harm," the judge wrote in his 80-page decision.<br><br>Chuang's ruling will allow healthcare providers to arrange for mifepristone to be mailed or delivered to patients during the public health emergency declared by the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone to be used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol, to end an early pregnancy or manage a miscarriage.<br><br>"By causing certain patients to decide between forgoing or substantially delaying abortion care, or risking exposure to COVID-19 for themselves, their children, and family members, the In-Person Requirements present a serious burden to many abortion patients," Chuang wrote.</blockquote><p>It sure does. </p><p>During the pandemic, regulators have removed the in-person requirements of many drugs that are given by doctors and then self-administered at home, and the abortion pill should be no different. The fact is, if someone really wants to end a pregnancy, they're going to find a way to do it one way or another and taking the abortion pill is a whole lot safer than most other methods. </p><p>In this current climate, days in which reproductive rights are in the news and <em>not</em> for a horrifying reason are few and far between, so we should all take some time to appreciate it until tomorrow when some other state will probably try to institute the death penalty for getting an IUD. </p><p>[<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/judge-women-abortion-pill-doctor-visits-71755793" target="_blank">ABC</a> | <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/georgia/federal-judge-says-georgias-heartbeat-abortion-bill-is-unconstitutional/X6N3AMLHRJCORN424DJK672ZYA/" target="_blank">WSBTV</a>]</p><p><strong>Wonkette is independent and fully funded by readers like you. Click below to tip us! Also if you are buying stuff on Amazon, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl2&tag=wonkette0f-20&linkId=e6057399a4696aad6e79c000ca483f54&language=en_US" target="_blank">click this link</a>!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Sleeping Giants Not Very Woke
Why are men?
July 10, 2020 11:54 AM
Since 2016, the Sleeping Giants social media activist organization has gone after the advertisers sponsoring websites and television shows that encourage hate or are hosted by serial sexual harassers. They create campaigns asking social media users to write to advertisers telling them that they won't buy their products if they advertise on these shows or websites, and those campaigns have been extremely effective. They led to Bill "Falafel Thing" O'Reilly getting kicked off the air, finally, and to Breitbart losing 90 percent of its advertisers.
Alas, it turns out that the organization had some problems of its own. Nandini Jammi, the marketing expert who cofounded Sleeping Giants with copywriter Matt Rivitz and ran the Facebook side of the operation while he ran the Twitter account, is leaving, saying — and providing a whole lot of evidence for the fact — that Rivitz gaslighted her, sidelined her, and took credit for her work. Oh boy, is that ever ... not particularly surprising.
In a post on Medium on Thursday, Jammi detailed her experience working at Sleeping Giants, how she and Rivitz came together to collaborate on the project, and his eventual insistence that he be the face of the organization, even suggesting in interviews that she was merely a "helper."
<p>Rather than share in the credit, Rivitz reportedly insisted that all PR requests be forwarded directly to him, and he left Jammi out of any media appearances, not letting her know about them until it was too late. At first he claimed this was because he didn't want to "muddle the message" (which sounds exactly like bullshit), but it soon became clear to Jammi that he wanted the spotlight to himself.</p><p>Via <a href="https://medium.com/@nandoodles/im-leaving-sleeping-giants-but-not-because-i-want-to-d9c4f488642" target="_blank">Medium</a>:</p><blockquote>When Matt and I came out in July 2018 on the<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F07%2F20%2Fbusiness%2Fmedia%2Fsleeping-giants-breitbart-twitter.html&psig=AOvVaw3A7A10ziJVR3wRGNxzYNmO&ust=1594411785183000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA0QjhxqFwoTCMirsvP8wOoCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD" target="_blank"> front page of the business section of the New York Times</a>, I believed it was as equal partners. It was through Matt's subsequent media appearances I realized he considered me an optional part of the story.<br><br>In the weeks after we went public, he positioned himself as Founder of Sleeping Giants and went on to take interviews with <a href="https://crooked.com/podcast/horseshoes-and-hand-grenades/" target="_blank">Pod Save America</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/3/17813124/sleeping-giants-breitbart-advertising-matt-rivitz-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast" target="_blank">Kara Swisher</a> and <a href="https://www.adweek.com/agencies/the-daily-caller-names-founder-of-sleeping-giants-which-organized-breitbart-advertiser-boycotts/" target="_blank">AdWeek</a>. In AdWeek, I ended up portrayed as "one of the individuals who helps him run the accounts."<br><br>Without my knowledge, my story was being defined by someone else — a white man who could use his platform to exclude me, diminish me, or disappear me entirely. He never once invited me to join him. I never had any idea he was doing any of these interviews until it was too late.</blockquote><p>Rivitz wouldn't even "let" Jammi have an official Sleeping Giants email account, because he wanted his to be the only official one. </p><p>The way Jammi sees it, she and Rivitz were both doing similar things at the same time four years ago — calling on advertisers to boycott problematic shows and websites — and that he suggested they come together and collaborate on this project. She felt that this ought to mean they were co-founders. The way Rivitz sees it, he came up with the name Sleeping Giants at least a <em>full week</em> before he and Jammi got in touch, and should thus be considered the sole founder and the only one to do media appearances. He allowed Jammi the title of "founding organizer" — whatever that means — but insisted on being known as the sole founder of the organization in the media. </p><p>Now, it is possible to read that Medium article and say, "Well, that is just one person's side of things, we don't know what really went on behind the scenes!" </p><p>But then ... then there's <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/nandini-jammi-leaving-sleeping-giants" target="_blank">the Buzzfeed interview.</a> </p><p>In an interview on their parting of ways published Wednesday, the day before Jammi published her account on Medium, Rivitz does not deny anything and merely justifies his sidelining of the woman of color who helped him make Sleeping Giants the incredible force for good that it was. He sounds exactly as Jammi described him. </p><blockquote>"For better or worse, every organization needs a leader and that role in Sleeping Giants has belonged to me, regardless of title," Rivitz told BuzzFeed News.<br><br>"Nandini and I have had multiple discussions around what a founder is and have a fundamental disagreement on what construes that title," Rivitz said. But he added, "I consider Nandini to be a partner and collaborator, and a great one."</blockquote><p>Hold for internal screaming:</p><blockquote>"Given that we never discussed her title previously, I was definitely surprised to hear that she had named herself cofounder," Rivitz said. "As I did not believe that was her role, having come on after I had already established the campaign, I corrected the record according to this belief."</blockquote><p>Despite Rivitz's media-hogging, Jammi says she believed in what they were doing at Sleeping Giants and so continued with the collaboration. Things came to a head, however, when the organization won an award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France — and Jammi was not even told that Rivitz had entered them. She didn't even know he went to France for the ceremony until she saw the pictures on his Instagram.</p><blockquote>"People started reaching out to me, congratulating me, asking me why I was not there," Jammi said. "I didn't even have the opportunity to go."<br><br>"It was the worst week of my adult life," said Jammi. "I stopped eating, I couldn't even function. I mean, Sleeping Giants is my entire life. I have spent every day on this. It's my second job, I have put in tireless amounts of effort — as much as he has at least."</blockquote><p>Rivitz's explanation for this was that he didn't think they were actually going to win and he only stopped by Cannes because he was already in the South of France for a speaking engagement and that he paid most of his own way there. Because being up for an award in Cannes is a thing you don't mention to literally everyone you've ever known in your entire life. </p><p>After this, Jammi posted a snarky reply to a post about the award on Instagram, saying "Incredible how much you've achieved all by yourself!" ... and Rivitz was furious.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>In her Medium post, she listed some of the things she remembered him saying to her:<br></p><blockquote>— "This is a betrayal. This is worse than anything that Breitbart could do. This is worse than being doxxed by The Daily Caller."<br><br>— "I'm older than you and I know more people than you. I've been working for like 20 years, and I used to work at an ad agency. I'm sorry you're not getting the jobs you want. I'm sorry you don't have the connections I have."<br><br>— "You're such a pain in the ass. Every three months, like clockwork, you call me wanting something. No one does this to me, not my wife, not my business partner, not my friends."<br><br>—"Everything I do is for the movement. What about you? You're in it for the glory aren't you?"<br><br>— "I did not deserve what you did to me. The way you chewed me out in front of all my friends. They were all saw what you said, they were all asking who this person is saying these things about me."<br><br>—"I took a huge risk just by starting this account and I do a million things you don't even know about."</blockquote><p>In their discussions regarding her role at the organization, Rivitz repeatedly accused Jammi of not being in it for the "mission," but rather for attention and glory for herself ... and he doesn't deny this.</p><p>Via Buzzfeed:</p><blockquote>"I asked her repeatedly what she wanted out of this campaign, as the attacks against me [on social media] were ongoing," Rivitz said. "I asked Nandini if she was in this for personal reasons rather than the mission itself."<br><br>Jammi took the call while she was visiting Laura Calabrese, a close friend who lives in New York. Calabrese told BuzzFeed News she overheard Jammi's side of the call in her living room.<br><br>After the call, Jammi looked stunned, Calabrese said.<br><br>"She was clearly defending herself against some accusation that she wasn't in this for the right reasons," said Calabrese. "I heard her say she wanted a seat at the table and wanted to make connections so she could keep doing the work she was doing more effectively.<br><br>"I definitely remember she said he accused her of being in it for the glory."</blockquote><p>There is, perhaps for every woman on earth, perhaps for everyone who is not a white man, a certain sting of familiarity in the way Rivitz explains himself. Rivitz doesn't deny his behavior because he doesn't see anything wrong with it. It does not occur to him that there is anything wrong with it. He's not the first progressive man to have such a "blind spot," and he certainly won't be the last. As my mother always said, "Never join a commune (with men), because you'll end up being the one doing all the dishes."<br></p><p>The fact that she was supposed to be in it exclusively for "the mission" while he was allowed to self-promote and go around making "connections" everywhere is representative of a societal distrust of women who are ambitious, even when that ambition is altruistic in nature. There is something about female selflessness that comforts certain men in a certain way and something about even the specter of self-interest that scares the crap out of them. </p><p>It would not have killed him to share in the "glory" with Jammi and allow her the same opportunities he enjoyed. It would not have "muddled the message." It wouldn't have taken anything away from him. In fact, given that Sleeping Giants is supposed to be a progressive organization, the official representative of everything being a white middle-aged guy was actually <em>not</em> a great look. </p><p>Jammi says she still believes in the work they were doing and plans to continue doing it on her own. It's sad to see an organization with such a great mission come to this, and it's unlikely that Sleeping Giants will continue to have the credibility it once did, unless Rivitz steps away. In the end, his own refusal to share the spotlight and give some credit to the woman who helped him get into it will likely lead to him never getting to enjoy it again. </p><p>[<a href="https://medium.com/@nandoodles/im-leaving-sleeping-giants-but-not-because-i-want-to-d9c4f488642" target="_blank">Medium</a>]</p><p><strong>Wonkette is independent and fully funded by readers like you. Click below to tip us! Also if you are buying stuff on Amazon, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl2&tag=wonkette0f-20&linkId=e6057399a4696aad6e79c000ca483f54&language=en_US" target="_blank">click this link</a></strong><strong>!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Men Have To Play Video Games Because Women Won't Do 'Biblical Submission', Says Nice Christian Lady's Friend
They can't even join the military!
July 09, 2020 11:31 AM
Lori Alexander, Wonkette's favorite Nice Christian Lady, invited a friend this week to contribute to her anti-feminist blog, The Transformed Wife. This friend was a man, because let's be real — women just shouldn't speak or write unless they are speaking or writing about how women shouldn't speak or write!
This friend, Tim Keller, was inspired by one of Alexander's recent posts about women serving in the military (which is bad, of course, because we are supposed to be delicate flowers and battlefields are no place for a lady) to write his own post about how feminism has forced men to "retreat" — to hang out in their parents' basements, rather than fight for our honor in stupid wars. This is very bad, for reasons.
He writes:
Men are designed by the Lord to fight for women, not with them. Most of the time when wives have an argument with their husband, the husband shuts down.
This is a part of how the Lord programmed the male mind to help deescalate the conflict and control his emotions. Invariably, the wife misinterprets his silence as unloving, but the opposite is usually true.
I would interpret his silence as "I won, because of how I am very smart," but I've got a silly ladybrain, what do I know? What I can tell you, though, is that while it would never occur to me to send a missive to a man I don't know requesting to "debate" him, I get such letters from men all the time. That seems like an unusual thing for people who were not designed by the Lord to fight with women to do.
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Keller then goes on to explain that Big Bad Feminism has told men they are not needed to go fight in wars for the purpose of protecting women and getting rewarded upon his return with "respect and love from his country and his family." How can we expect this whole thing to play out if women can also enlist in the military, thereby making it less special when men do it?
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As we see Feminism take hold in society and culture, we have seen men retreat. The best way to get rid of men is to tell them they are not needed. This has been the constant theme being preached from entertainment to academia. Men are not designed to fight for themselves; only to sacrifice for ideals larger than themselves. This is why men volunteer for military service and in times of war, the enlistment rates increase. This speaks to the base instinct in a man, to protect the vulnerable and to serve the greater good for his fellow man. In return, he hopes to be rewarded with respect and love from his country and his family.
</blockquote><p>Again, I've got that ladybrain, but it seems like fighting for the sake of fighting is the exact opposite of "the greater good"? Like, what? Are we supposed to have a war with an all-male military so they can go out and fight for our honor and then come home and be rewarded for it? That ... does not actually seem like a very good time for any of us. Isn't there a way around this that does not involve people risking their lives and also very likely ending the lives of "vulnerable" innocent civilians and children? If I were really concerned about protecting vulnerable people, the last thing I'd want to do would be to go fight in a war. </p><p>Could these men, who apparently need so desperately to fight for our honor, maybe do something other than fight in a war? Could they not compete in a karate competition of some kind?</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>He continues:<br></p><blockquote>So now that the tentacles of Feminism have been increasingly enveloping the church, we see men, consistent with their nature, retreating from a fight they are unable to win. I have heard the lament from women for years saying, "Where have all the good men gone?" Well, I will share it with you, they are hiding in plain sight.</blockquote><p>Oh wow, really? Interesting theory! Is it possible that this is just a thing that literally everyone says when they are having trouble finding someone they like to date, and not even sort of a plea for a big manly war-fightin' man to come and drag us to a cave by our hair? </p><p>Of course not! </p><blockquote>Yes, too many have opted to retreat to their parents' basement playing video games; to fight and win on the only platform they feel they can win on. Far more are working hard to lead and provide. Those are the hardwired tasks God has placed inside him; most without the adoration and respect they deserve.</blockquote><p>So what this guy is saying is that, in order for things to be set right, women need to pretend they can't fight in the military, and then all of the video game guys need to go to war so they can win in real life and not in a video game, and then we give them adoration and respect? That seems a little fragile to me. Also unnecessarily complicated! People, including men, can get adoration and respect just for being nice people who do good things. No one has to go to war for that to happen! They could just, I don't know, pick up an instrument. </p><p>Alas, according to Keller, not only has the world at large forsaken men, but the church has as well. Because of those feminist tentacles:</p><blockquote>So why have men retreated from church where the Word of God is preached? Why aren't husbands involved more, why? I will tell you. The last bastion of hope and support for his role in the family and in the community was the church, and it has largely betrayed and abandoned Biblical teaching on headship. Most have not even heard the term. The church has gone the way of all the institutions where a man's contribution was respected and cherished.</blockquote><p>He goes on to talk about how men used to get to go to church and hear about how they are supposed to be in charge of everything at home, and also get to see older women teaching younger women to serve their husbands and not have jobs or anything. He'd get to see that women are prohibited from leadership positions, just as the apostle Paul wanted. Not anymore! </p><p>Well, except in the Catholic Church, where women are still only allowed at the altar to clean it. </p><p>Keller is mad about churches failing at the following things, specifically:</p><blockquote>Lack of standards in and out of church.<br>Lack of teaching on Biblical roles for men and women.<br>Lack of teaching on Biblical submission for wives to their husbands.<br>Lack of commanding men to take the leadership in their homes and church.<br>Lack of Biblical hymnody that exalts the power, might, and authority of God Almighty.<br>Lack of politically incorrect, Biblical worldview preaching.<br>Lack of fellowship times where people can share their Christian walk with the local body of believers.<br>Lack of encouragement for young women to seek marriage and family as opposed to career and worldly pursuits.</blockquote><p>Well this is just unfair. If churches did their job and regularly churned out young women with no personal ambition for themselves other than to submit to their husbands, that would be a super good time for men like Tim Keller, who like being in charge and having women submit to them and not question them ever. Doesn't <em>everyone</em> deserve an entire religion dedicated to making people be what they want and accept that they are in charge of everything? Where is my entire religion where everyone believes I don't have to wait in line for anything, ever?</p><p>How are men to do all of the macho manly things they want if women won't let them?</p><blockquote>Men will rise to the challenge when they are needed and see a path for love and respect. Yes, men should be like Christ in that He was abused, betrayed, and crucified, and yet still endured the cross of shame for all of us, even for those that did and would reject him. Great men are all around, but few are great apart from great women. When the women get right with God and stop trying to "do it all" and "climb the ladder," "break down the barriers," and "my body my choice," maybe then we will see men step up in the areas we need them to.<br><br>Yes, we need more good men, but when will the women allow them and encourage them to stand? When will the women see their ministry is to their husband first, to their children second, and everything else third? When will the lure of monetary success fade away to family success? When will we see our men as God's gift to our family, church, and community?</blockquote><p>Probably never! 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2020 Congressional Elections
Tommy Tuberville Let Raping Football Man Off With One-Game Suspension
Alabama Goddamn.
July 03, 2020 11:10 AM
Wednesday evening, the campaign bus for Tommy Tuberville, Donald Trump's preferred candidate in Alabama's GOP primary for the US Senate, burst into flames and melted into a complete loss. The bus was on a test drive after some maintenance, and the driver, the only person aboard, escaped without injury.
Just in case you're keeping track of obvious metaphors from the creators of the "2020" simulation, the bus fire preceded by one day a Washington Examiner story, published last night, that details how, when Tuberville was the head football coach at Auburn University in 1999, he gave a mere one-game suspension to a football player who'd been charged with second-degree rape in a case involving a 15-year old girl. The athlete, Clifton Robinson, was 20 at the time, and pleaded to a reduced charge of "contributing to the delinquency of a minor," a misdemeanor.
After the guilty plea, Tuberville emphasized he was very, very disappointed, and that Robinson would have to face the consequences for his actions.
"Clifton is back on the team," coach Tommy Tuberville said. "He and I will sit down today and I'll tell him that we do things right around here, so he can expect there will be some punishment. What it is, I don't know yet." [emphasis added — Dok]
And apparently the way they did things around there was to issue a one-game suspension for Auburn's opening game of the season, because we guess Robinson was a pretty good player who really contributed a lot to the team, and as they say, why ruin a promising young man's life just for a little illegal sex with a minor?
<p>Shortly after Robinson's arrest in March 1999, Tuberville suspended him, which was standard practice while a criminal case was pending. Five months later, Robinson avoided his case going to trial by accepting the lesser charge, and all was well in Auburn f'ball again. It's especially jarring today to see<a href="https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/08/15/wr-returns-to-auburn-vols-lb-to-miss-season/" target="_blank"> just how brief</a> those<a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1999-08-28-9908280165-story.html" target="_blank"> 1999 stories</a> about the case tended to be. Hell, the most detailed story linked in the <em>Examiner </em>piece is actually the <a href="http://www.auburn.edu/administration/univrel/news/archive/3_99news/3_99robinson.html" target="_blank">Auburn University news release</a> about Robinson's arrest; it notes that</p><blockquote>Second-degree rape under Alabama law is a class B felony. The statue states that the crime occurs when a man "engages in sexual intercourse with a female less than 16 and more than 12 years old, provided; however that the (man) is at least two years older than the female."<br><br>Punishment under a conviction for second-degree rape ranges from two to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.</blockquote><p>Most of the coverage at the time seems to suggest it was just a little ol' statutory rape, not like real <em>rape </em>rape. The Auburn press release also seems to have the only expression of concern for the victim — in perfunctory boilerplate form — from then- university president William Muse: </p><blockquote>The crime with which this young man has been accused is a very serious one and Auburn University will deal with it in a serious manner. [...] We want to assure the family of the young woman, the parents of all our students and others in the Auburn community that such behavior is not tolerated at Auburn University. Our student athletes are expected to adhere to the same standards of moral conduct as the rest of our student body.</blockquote><p>The rightwing <em>Washington Examiner</em> piece<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/as-coach-tommy-tuberville-handed-a-one-game-suspension-to-player-charged-with-rape-of-15-year-old" target="_blank"> has more awareness </a>of why this matters, though it, too, sounds perfunctory in its own way: </p><blockquote>In the #MeToo era, where victims of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment have come forward to hold those in power accountable for their crimes and cover-ups, silence and certainly weak disciplinary action can be perceived as complicity.</blockquote><p>Present US "presidents" excepted, of course. </p><p><span></span>Tuberville is running against Democratic incumbent Doug Jones, who was <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/doug-jones-wins-roll-tide-and-also-we-damn-well-told-you-so" target="_blank">elected to the Senate in a 2017 special election</a> to replace Jeff Sessions, who had been appointed as Trump's first attorney general. As you may recall, Jones beat Judge Roy Moore, who was credibly accused by several women of having made sexual advances when they were teenagers; one woman said he'd attempted to rape her when she was 16. The other Republican in the race is Jeff Sessions himself, who has been pathetically trying to portray himself as a Trump loyalist even though Trump hates his guts. </p><p>While the Tuberville campaign didn't comment for the [apparently accurate but painfully poorly written] <em>Examiner </em>piece, it did <a href="https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2020/07/02/tommy-tuberville-campaign-responds-report-former-coachs-handling-charges-against-player/5369933002/" target="_blank">issue a statement</a> later yesterday, through campaign chair Stan McDonald, who said, </p><blockquote>Just as team doctors had full authority to determine if injured players took the field, Coach Tuberville gave the same kind of authority to the local police, judges, and other law enforcement officials if one of his players crossed a legal line. [...] Immediate suspensions for those transgressions were routine.</blockquote><p>Yep, that was the suspension during the summer; the statement apparently said nothing about why a plea deal in a rape case merited just a single-game suspension for Robinson. But the statement did go on to explain that Tuberville was a real champ when it came to helping young men develop the mores they'd need in life! As coach, Tuberville </p><blockquote>helped mold the character of thousands of players, many of whom had not had the benefit of a father or positive male role model in their lives. [...]<br><br>The vast majority of his players grew, matured, received world-class educations they might not have gotten otherwise, and led successful, post-collegiate lives as a direct result of Coach's positive influence upon them.</blockquote><p>And honestly, if Tuberville was shaping young men's characters for life in the NFL, a slap on the wrist for a rape charge <em>does </em>seem like it fit the bill. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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