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8. You are wielding the broad brush.

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 26, 2013, 08:28 PM

Mar 2013

"God I hate football. Not only is it boring, but it breeds sick, violent, rapists."

No more than ANY other group or activity.
Or are ALL clergy rapists?
ALL coaches?
ALL Trekkies?
ALL teachers?

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Women do not make men rape them. [View all] riqster Mar 2013 OP

Apparently many people in this country take their High School Football Teams REAL fuckin' serious. Warren DeMontague Mar 2013 #1

Oh hell yeah riqster Mar 2013 #2

God I hate football. Not only is it boring, but it breeds smirkymonkey Mar 2013 #3

Blaming football? Archae Mar 2013 #4

Oh please, the poor football players. smirkymonkey Mar 2013 #5

Many? No. A few. Archae Mar 2013 #6

The common thread in this and the Steubenville case is a reflexive defense of a HS football team. Warren DeMontague Mar 2013 #7

You are wielding the broad brush. Archae Mar 2013 #8

I didn't write that. Warren DeMontague Mar 2013 #9

Oops, "smirkymonkey" did. Archae Mar 2013 #10

That's okay. I jumped into the subthread, so I see how you might make that mistake. Warren DeMontague Mar 2013 #11

Many footballers are rapists? sibelian Mar 2013 #12

Hey I'm a liberal, feminist, AND sports fan! So do THESE institutions also breed rapists? alp227 Mar 2013 #13