Columnist suspended for offending DV speech rules

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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