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In reply to the discussion: How to know that you hate women [View all]mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)If it's this one guy who hates women, then what action do we take to correct it? Actually, probably nothing - we can't change one person's mind. However, if, as I believe, the system - meaning the NFL in this case - generates men who are full of themselves and are trained to believe that violence is a perfectly appropriate way to deal with issues like their women "disrespecting" them, then the action we take is very different. In that case, we actually can take action. We can demand that the NFL fire assholes who hit their wives/fiancees, or if they don't, we can stop watching football and supporting that system.
Maybe that isn't the action people want to take - they don't want to have to accept responsibility for supporting a sport that creates violent people and therefore, have to stop supporting it. They want to watch football. Personally I hate football (I'm a hater in this case), but can sort of understand that people don't want to have to make that change and stop watching it. It's fun (for them). But in order to correct this problem, we've got to address it.