Columnist suspended for offending DV speech rules

	posted by Adam on Friday May 09, @02:59PM from the News dept.
	CJ writes "Here is an outrageous double standard: While TV commercials depict woman hitting men (like in the Saturn commercial where the sales guy says, "please stop hitting me"), and today there is a plethora of shows where men are cast as evil and therefore get the stuffing knocked out of them by beautiful models, a Boston Globe columnist gets suspended for saying that a pro-athletes wife should get "smacked" for her self promotion by means of her husbands fame. The phrase the reporter chose to make on a local talk show may not be the best choice of words, but suspending him and threatening his career is akin to an Orwellian (1984 thought-crime) nightmare. The "system" will use him as an example to shut up any dissent against the abuses men suffer in the highly sexist DV industry."

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Hmmmm, (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Friday May 09, @03:35PM EST (#1) And no one even BLINKED when Katie Couric made her infamous castration remark about a man who left his bride at the alter, a few years back. I hear women make violence-against-men comments, (on and off TV and movies) so often I can't keep track. Like I keep saying, If a woman does it it's Allllright. but if a man does the exact SAME thing (or even less) he is EEEEVVVIILL!! See, guys THIS is one of the reasons I gripe so much about the double standards in the media when it comes to "violence against women" VS. "Violence against men". Violence against men is SO common-place it's not even NOTICED, or even seen as a problem. As far as this guy getting suspended for his comment, all I can say is; So what else is new? -Thundercloud.

Re:Hmmmm, (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Friday May 09, @05:19PM EST (#2) I'd err on the side of suggesting that neither men nor women should make those comments. On the other hand, as long as women get to make them in the media and men can't, he should be immediately re-instated with a statement that as long as women in the media can suggest that men receive physical punishment for their transgressions, men will be permitted to make similar suggestions about women with impunity.

How do you work this to your advatage? (Score:1) by Futharon on Friday May 09, @09:59PM EST (#3) (User #786 Info) When reading something like this, I ask myself, how can I be more conniving (sp?) then women on this one? The main thing, smile, chuckle even, and collect lots of evidence. Judgement day is coming, and those with the most evidence wins.

suspend the whole news staff (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Saturday May 10, @01:42PM EST (#4) pretty much all journalists should be suspended for ignoring domestic violence against men

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