Wife defends Ray Rice, slams media

[Dreamer Tatum]

25. This is a classic DU pile-on. But that's OK, because it isn't even about Rice or Palmer now.

It's about individual posters building up their bona fides and street cred. That's why posters have latched onto
that woman's post with tongue-clucking fury, despite knowing exactly one thing about her and her marriage.

How do I know? Well, there is a new thread that consists of nothing other than a reference to The Burning Bed.

This post itself will almost certainly draw out claims that I'm "defending Ray Rice" or somehow advocating
domestic violence. Because SOMEHOW in all of this anti-misogynist chatter, it is suddenly impossible for a
woman to decide anything for herself once she's been beaten. It CANNOT POSSIBLY be that Ray Rice made
a horrible mistake for which he should be in prison and out of the NFL, yet his wife can survey her own
situation and decide that she'll stay. She's too dumb to make that decision, I suppose. Or greedy: we also
hear from the tongue-cluckers that she's just a gold-digger. Which is in NO WAY misogynistic. No, not at ALL.

Here's what I learned from DU: women are equals, capable of anything and everything, utterly self-reliant and
in control. Until, of course, she gets hit, and then she's FAIR GAME FOR CRITICISM. How can she make her own
choices? SHE'S BEEN HIT! How can she stand by someone who had .000000000001% of her relationship to that man
on film? HE HIT HER! BY GODDESS, DOESN'T THAT WOMAN KNOW THAT WE AREN'T FINISHED SAVAGING THAT MAN
YET? SHE SHOULD SHUT THE FUCK UP UNTIL WE'RE DONE WITH HIM. NOW IS NO TIME FOR ANYONE TO DEFEND THAT
MONSTER, ESPECIALLY HIS VICTIM, BECAUSE WE KNOW HIM BETTER THAN SHE EVER WILL.

The point is that there is a not-so-subtle and hypocritical misogyny in dismissing this woman out of hand, as many
posters are doing. And because DU's favorite mode in times like these is that of binary thinking, I will clarify, lest
I find myself in the DU stocks next to Rice and Palmer:

Ray Rice should be in prison.
Ray Rice should never play in the NFL again.
Mrs. Rice should receive whatever legal, emotional, parenting, and financial assistance she can get.