Oh man, this guy is gonna get it! Most of the sports world reeled when Ray Rice was only given a two day suspension for punching his then-fiance. One ESPN host is under fire for saying that women should make sure not to provoke men to wrongdoing in such altercations.
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Smith said during his ESPN appearance that a man has “no business” putting his hands on a woman, but then went on to say that he was raised by women and encouraged the female members of his family to “make sure we don’t do anything to provoke wrong actions.”
“I think that just talking about what guys shouldn’t do, we got to also make sure that you can do your part to do whatever you can do to try to make sure it doesn’t happen … but at the same time, we also have to make sure that we learn as much as we can about elements of provocation,” he added. “Not that there’s real provocation, but the elements of provocation, you got to make sure that you address them. Because we’ve got to do is do what we can to try to prevent the situation from happening in any way. And I don’t think that’s broached enough, is all I’m saying.”
Of course, he has a point. It’s irrational to pretend that women never a role in provoking men ever, even if men should be taught not to be violent with women. But feminists will just take it to mean that he’s saying women are always to blame. Which is ridiculous:
Beadle is also an ESPN host. Smith responded to the mischaracterization of his comments in tweets, but had to delete them after getting so much blowback.