{"id":57667,"date":"2014-09-14T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57667"},"modified":"2014-09-14T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T18:26:01","slug":"what-was-janay-angry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57667","title":{"rendered":"What Was Janay Angry About?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/theothermccain.com\/2014\/09\/11\/feminist-theory-human-nature-and-the-punch-seen-round-the-world\/\">Blog<\/a>: Watching the video in which Ray Rice knocked out his fianc\u00e9e (now wife) Janay, the thought occurs: What was she so angry about?<br \/>\nEverybody has focused on the obvious horror of Rice\u2019s punch \u2014 the brute force of a 200-pound professional athlete used against a woman \u2014 and nobody seems interested in what Janay did immediately before the punch. The couple were in a confined space, inside an elevator, when Janay \u201cgot in his face,\u201d screaming and lunging toward Rice. Of course, Janay\u2019s behavior does not justify Rice hitting her, but one wonders why she acted that way, just as one wonders whether the circumstance of being trapped in an elevator with this enraged woman in some way explains Rice\u2019s reaction. That is to say, if her angry rage triggered Rice\u2019s fight-or-flight instinct, he couldn\u2019t flee from her while they were on the elevator, and his adrenalin surge produced an autonomic reflex: BOOM&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Do we have any evidence that Ray Rice is a chronic menace to women? Is there an established record of Ray Rice as a habitual perpetrator of domestic violence? Was this horrific incident caught on video part of a long-term pattern? Who benefits, and who is harmed, by dropping him from the Ravens lineup and indefinitely suspending him from the NFL? Insofar as Ray Rice is suffering the legitimate consequences of his own wrongful behavior, I have no complaint. But it seems to me that Ray Rice \u2014 and Janay Rice, and everyone with a direct stake in Ray Rice\u2019s NFL career \u2014 is being made to suffer an extraordinary penalty because (a) feminists have turned this into a political cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre, and (b) the NFL is run by cowardly swine who care more about their image than they care about human beings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog: Watching the video in which Ray Rice knocked out his fianc\u00e9e (now wife) Janay, the thought occurs: What was she so angry about? Everybody has focused on the obvious horror of Rice\u2019s punch \u2014 the brute force of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57672,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57667\/revisions\/57672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}