People wrongly assume I have an issue with Hope Solo, Brittney Griner or any woman who runs afoul of the law.
My issue isn’t with them.
My issue is with how they are portrayed. I was at the ESPYs where jokes about Floyd Mayweather and Ray Rice flew freely. That is fair game, you get label as domestic abuser, just have to deal with it. Same way Jason Pierre-Paul will have to deal with finger jokes for the rest of his life.
But, there was Hope Solo sitting there immune to any of the same criticisms that her male counterparts were receiving. She is on the cover of SI, receiving awards and being shown as hero to her country.
Ray Rice will never play another down in the NFL. Mayweather has made a lot of money, but his past will always follow him. De’Andre Johnson was kicked out of school, while the woman who hit him first suffered zero repercussion for the same action (which also included a racial slur according to witnesses).
Hope Solo will be at the Kid’s Choice Awards with the rest of US Soccer and while her history of violence goes back years, let’s concentrate on what she is now accused of.
He told police Solo lunged at him to “take a swing,” hitting him lightly in the face. He said she charged and struck him multiple times. Obert, who had come into the room, said in her deposition and in an interview with Outside the Lines that her son briefly subdued Solo and she seemed to calm down. Obert told the teenager to let his aunt up off the ground. “She’s done,” Obert recalled telling her son, according to her deposition. He didn’t believe his mom, but she said, “No, she’s done. You can let go, she’s done.”
But when Obert’s son let Solo go, he told police she “immediately grabbed his hair, pulled his head down and started punching him in the face repeatedly.” Later, in the deposition, he said Solo “jumped on top of me and started bashing my head into the cement” inside the garage.
“She grabbed him by the head and she kept slamming him into the cement over and over again,” Obert told Outside the Lines. “So I came from behind her, and I pulled her over and, you know, to get her off my son. And then, once she got off, she started punching me in the face over and over again.”
Great example for the kids how to handle things?
People will use the defense of she was never convicted (prosecutors are still investigating). Charges were dropped against Greg Hardy does that mean it didn’t happen? Ray McDonald been accused in four separate incidents, but never been actually convicted of anything, do you think he will play another down in the NFL?
Once again my issue isn’t with Hope Solo, I don’t care if she is going to Kid’s Choice Awards, ESPYs or whatever accolades she receives, my issue is how our society only wants equality when it is convenient and when it isn’t it is just brushed aside.
If Hope Solo can be bulletproof, don’t talk to me about boycotting the next Mayweather fight.
Don’t be a hypocrite, you not fooling anyone.
H/T Washington Post