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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1125468, member: 40"] That article is instructive in the sense that many of the limitations ascribed to the abused women might not apply to Janay Rice--who presumably has the resources [and certainly would have the public support] needed to extricate herself from her current situation. Maybe she's staying because what happened wasn't the norm behaviorally. Or maybe--like you're suggesting--she's a trapped victim suffering from an acute case of stockholm syndrome. I just don't agree with unilaterally dismissing her perspective on the matter, since she's the one involved in the situation. It's not like her remarks [from above] were a press conference with her reading a prepared, disingenuous statement. To the contrary, she seems completely genuine in her reaction. I want to be clear: I'm not defending Ray Rice. I have two daughters and a sister, and I think what he did was criminal. He deserves whatever legal consequences he gets. But I also believe that if he doesn't have a criminal record or a past history of such violence, that he doesn't need to be stoned to death over this, or be black listed from his profession merely to quell social outrage, or because Roger Goodell and the NFL are now over-compensating to cover their a$$e$ in the aftermath of giving him too light of a penalty. I'm tired of knee jerk reactions, and people not thinking things through instead of just reacting to stimulus--and the more salacious the trigger, the greater the faux outrage demanding a pound of flesh. I'm [U]not[/U] accusing you of this, shandeezy, just talking in general about how society gets oversaturated with scandal coverage in today's 24 hour news media. I hope Ray Rice gets punished to the full extent of the law for what he did. But if the preponderance of his past / track record warrants some conditional leniency, then he shouldn't be overpenalized just because people are screaming for his head, or because the NFL is now desperate to make an example of him to make up for not doing their job the first time around. [/QUOTE]

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