Stephen A suspended from First Take and ESPN radio for a week

[NYC Rebel]

It's not about "hurt" tho. That's where you are missing the point. Just because it doesn't necessarily hurt when you hit someone , it doesn't negate the fact that they hit you

I think I brought this very thing up when I was attacked. Why are we repeating what I said I was past already?

 

[Ronnie Lott]

I clearly say I agree that if a woman puts her hands on a man, she opens the door to getting responded to with in the same manner. I say I reacted in the same manner when I was attacked. I say I raise my daughters not to put their hands on a man to avoid that. Yet you're still asking this stupid question?

Relax my G. I simply asked you a question to clarify your position

 

[Shamrock32]

I bet you won't tweet that to her though

I tweeted at her today.

"provoke provoke provoke" hey get me suspended from my job too.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

I think I brought this very thing up when I was attacked. Why are we repeating what I said I was past already?

nikka, I didnt read every post that you wrote in this thread

 

[NYC Rebel]

Relax my G. I simply asked you a question to clarify your position

Some things are pretty cut and dry. I don't get the confusion. I was clear.

 

[NYC Rebel]

nikka, I didnt read every post that you wrote in this thread

So then understand why being asked to repeat myself is annoying.

 

[duckbutta]

I just can't believe this issue got this big...all stephen a said was women shouldn't do things to provoke an ass whooping...and woman ABSOLUTELY do things to put themselves in position that a man might hit them...

If a woman and a man are arguing and the woman is the first one to get physical...how is that not provoking an ass whooping...how is a person who took something verbal and made it a physical altercation somehow completely absolved of any responsibility? How on earth is the man in this situation supposed to show restraint? Why should he? She sure as hell didn't by turning it physical...how can two parties be arguing and the expectation is that one of them can just do whatever they want and the other one must show restraint...

I'm of the mind that you should not enter another person's personnel space in an argument at all, no matter if it is a man or a woman...I am far from a violent person, but if an argument reaches a certain boiling point, regardless of what sex you are, and you enter my personal space, you are going to get a warning to back off, and that warning signifies a timer...after a certain amount of time...yeah...we are probably going to have a physical altercation...

Just hilarious that this got so big...meanwhile Stephen A said something similar during the Jameis Winston case to Jemele Hill about women provoking their own rape and not a peep was said by anyone...

 

[George's Dilemma]

I genuinely don't know what to think of a lot of you dudes now. I get that we are the stronger sex and should have some restraint, but it seems as if what is really being said is that women are absolved of any responsibility for what they say or do.

I believe that when a woman chooses to behave like a man, that is the point that she can be treated like one. But let's go beyond actually hitting the man himself. What if the female hits your mother or aunt or grandmother? It's just the the three of you there and you witness her strike them, you're telling me that you're going to do anything less than having her jaw fitted with a left hook you brought from the pits of hell?

 

[BiggWebb79]

 

[NYC Rebel]

I don't think a lot of dudes are in here saying that.



I had no problem with that slap back.

 

[BiggWebb79]

Point is....SAS didn't say that. He said provoke, got verbose and said nothing about a woman laying hands on a man. Provoke is a broad term. For someone with a grasp of the english language he loves to throw in people face, he seemed lost in making a specific point.

 

[NYC Rebel]

He should have stuck to that script.

 

[DaPresident]

Damn shame...


cats want you to be "real" I mean that's what SAS is "known for" and based in. ESPiN will throw him out there and ask him to "keep it real" (Gosh I hate that term) when he does he provokes (pun intended) the PC mafia/white women and now the big wigs at ESPiN have to do everything possible to keep from losing sponsors. (God knows they were gonna lose a LOT of sponsors from this incident) nikka, Mike and Mike is one big morning commercial cuz these nikkas have no shame pitching any and everything and adding a dash of sports talk in there. This was just response from white tears and PC mafia

 

[Reverend Jesse Jackson]

the government destroyed the black family structure with the welfare system over forty years, ago.
black people had nuffin to do wit that at all.
as you can only do what a country allows you to do, period.
this country does not/did not allow us the ability to build sound family structures, consistently.


artbarr

Oh most definitely. This country isn't forcing us to have children out of wedlock and building families though. Not buying that. We had a lot less power in post-slavery and we did that.

 

[23Barrettcity]

I brought that up when folks decided to act as if both sexes posses the same ability to hurt one another and using it as an excuse to act.

The point isn't how much it hurts it's you shouldn't be putting your hands on others . There are guys who will hit a girl for the slighest provocation be it physical or verbal and the woman won't know ahead of time so it's better to not provoke men due to the reaction they may occur . Should men be beating women? No they shouldn't be but we know it happens and without provocation they still hit them and some guys are looking for a reason to hit a woman . Let's leave the ohh they don't hit hard cause they aren't as strong as us out of it some guys ARE CRAZY.