The Tender For Law

Volume 10

May 13, 2015 3:35 AM

David-Paul Sip

"Many men in Toronto find entertainment in verbally raping women." This is incredible. I guess I have a few things to learn about penetration and rape. Can someone tell me how do words rape a woman? It seems to diminish what rape actually is? Is this similar to zombie rape baby, rape :/

Verbal sexual assault on women reporters must stop: Porter | Toronto Star

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�Disgusting phrase� hurled yet again at CityNews reporter Shauna Hunt outside Sunday�s Toronto FC game is not just a �stupid trend.�

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Tara Duncan

"Think about that: we live in a city where female reporters need bodyguards to work at soccer games." Yes indeed. We must protect these poor women in case the situation escalates and they start using polysyllabics or olde English. The world we live in!

David-Paul Sip

Who knows? It seems last weekend after the Toronto FC game. One man loses his "lucrative" job at Hydro One, polic-E enforcers consider laying charges, four men (3 of them season ticket holders) banned from BMO Field for minimum of one year. In the meantime this female reporter is elevated to heroine for standing up to "bullies".

Pete Daoust

The thing is, what exactly does she expect ?

A bunch of morons, getting together to drink beer and yelling DEFENSE, DEFENSE....so what the fuck does she expect ?

If she wants something else, better change job.....no ? :/

Tara Duncan

I meant to comment on this earlier, but honestly thought the thread was too retarded to survive.

Since there are no women posting, and I am not anatomically equipped with a penis (despite prevailing opinion), I am really the only one qualified to comment. There are a few things I would like to mention.

The first is that most of these team sports are all about male machismo - no one wants to see, or will pay for, a bunch of women in padded uniforms duking it out on a playing field. This excludes the "sports" depicted herein, or probably anything involving girl-on-girl action, nudity, mud or jello. On the playing field, manly male participants compete for the adulation of onlooking jock-wannabes who drink excessively and swear like drunken sailors. Good or bad, that has always been part of the culture. Let us not forget as well that these fantasy contests, win or lose, generate a huge amount of revenue. I'm not saying women can't, or don't, appreciate these events. It is fair to say, though, that most women rarely get a metaphorical hard-on when someone offers them tickets to "the game".

Time was that a retired player would often transition to a sports reporting career. In possession of knowledge, experience and a reputation in the industry, this was usually a good fit. Excelling at running, catching a ball, or blocking someone's way, is not always synonymous with intelligence or education. Hence, statistically speaking, some dumb jocks may have ended up being successful reporters. If someone with the demonstrable IQ of a soap dish can transition to sports reporting who difficult can it be?

Enter women reporters. Do they play the sport, have they studied it, do they know the culture? Frankly I don't know. I do know that in the absence of equally successful women's leagues, most women can't really understand the "sports experience" - the early childhood playing, dreams of a sporting career, and finally the symbiotic transference to adrenalin-soaked fan-Dom in support of other, more "qualified" men. In my opinion women reporters entering a male-dominated arena should expect the same treatment as any other qualified man. If they want to be treated as though they are reporting on a tea party, they should lobby hard for this assignment. Otherwise they should do their homework, and be able to take it like a man.

As far as I know there is no such thing as verbal sexual assault. It offends me that anyone would even think about making this a thing. Actual rape is completely different; this crap should not even be in the same category.

If you want to be a women in a male-dominated career, learn to take it like a jock. If and when a male or female reporter is sexually assaulted interviewing a bunch of drunken sports idiots in a public forum, then I'll get behind the issue. Until then why not invest in something useful like a cool t-shirt that says, �FHRITP�?

Pete Daoust

No worries Ceit, I am having a blast.....and I am in a "I don't give a shit" mood, the kind of "I don't give a shit" mood where one really doesn't give a shit, ya know !! ....

You guys can think, say or view me like whatever you want, I just don't give a shit :D

Not my fault..... :P

Anibal Jose Baez

I have been out of town with the family, so I have a lot of catch-up reading to do once I get "home." I should be back by the end of this month. This long luxurious vacations are a drag.

And NO. We have not been staying at Howard Johnsons hotels. They were all booked! :D

Scott Duncan

No raindrop is ever blamed for the flood. It's all of them.

I don't blame all of you individually. I blame you all collectively. Like it or not, YOU ALL caused this to happen. NONE of you should even know who I am.

...yet you do. That's not a good thing. What I've built is going to cause a lot of harm. What I am building will do worse. Your grandchildren will be quite entertained. :D

Anibal Jose Baez

What a way to wake up to reality. Admiral Scott hates us collectively. No special kind of hate from the Admiral? I can settle for that! Now I can go on with my day. Epcot Center better have wheelchair service. I do not feel like making the lines.