Chivalry is dead:Man jumps out of way, leaving girlfriend to be hit in face by baseball

[dipsydoodle]

A couple attending a baseball match learned a little about each other - perhaps a little bit too much about each other - after a home run ended up hitting a woman in the face.

That would be unfortunate enough. What made it worse was that the ball was about to hit her boyfriend until he dived out of the way to leave her in the firing line.

The pair were at the match between the St Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks - and the Cardinals' Peter Kozma was busy doing his job and hitting the ball out of the park.

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As the excitement died down and it emerged that the woman was not seriously hurt, the St Louis announcer Al Hrabosky summed things up: "Nice goin', boyfriend".

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/chivalry-dead-man-jumps-way-leaving-girlfriend-hit-122417024.html includes video.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. This should be quite interesting.

Should he have taken the beaner to the face?

[dipsydoodle]

4. If I managed to catch a cricket ball

coming at my face full force from 22 yards away the least he could've done was try to catch it..

[Behind the Aegis]

6. You know he has your ability?

What is the volocity of a cricket ball from 22 yards and a baseball from...do you know the distance? Would it make a difference if the ball had hit his buddy's face?

[dipsydoodle]

8. 20 yards I think

[Blue_Tires]

48. Let's get real now

this was a home run ball...there's not a lot of energy left in the ball at the 'end' of its flight...I've NEVER seen someone FLEE from a home run, and even if the dude had no athletic inclination whatsoever, he could have at least blocked/deflected/covered his girlfriend...

You're making it sound like he was sitting on the 3rd base foul line and a line-drive screamer came his way (and guess what, baseball fans still one-hand those all the time)

[malaise]

37. He might have tried to catch it or push her out of the way

Fugging coward

[Behind the Aegis]

66. She might have tried to catch it or jump out of the way.

Fugging idiot

[malaise]

69. Valid point

The fugging coward and the fugging idiot.

[smirkymonkey]

103. Christ!

[Behind the Aegis]

104. Excellent observation.

[Honeycombe8]

91. Yeah, I don't know many men who wouldn't have instinctively reached out to protect her

even if just pushing her out of the way.

OTOH, why wasn't she facing forward, so she would see balls coming her way? Odd.

[octothorpe]

95. Good on him for not being a sexist pig...

teehee

[malaise]

109. These days a lot of people at sports grounds are busy on their smart phones

The phones appear to be smarter than the peeps at the grounds.
My father taught us early on cricket grounds- watch the ball.
A friend told me that he saw an Ipad shattered at a cricket ground and only when it was hit did the user look up

[smirkymonkey]

115. Yes, he could have pushed her out of the way as well,

Or have taken her down with him. What a coward! She could not have seen what was coming if he was in her way.

[Bake]

122. Oh, you're just being patriarchal!

Bake

[malaise]

123. LOL

Do you think he opened the car door for her

[Bake]

125. You mean at the emergency room?

I certainly hope so!





Bake

[malaise]

127. Bwaaaaaaaaaah hahahahah

[Katashi_itto]

39. Did he hold the door open to the emergency room for her?

[Comrade_McKenzie]

2. At least he didn't perpetuate the patriarchy.

[unreadierLizard]

5. You can't win.

If you do something nice, it's sexism.

If you don't do anything at all, it's sexism.

Honestly, who cares? Human beings are driven by self-interest. I'm sure this couple honestly has better things to do then argue about the fact he didn't take a baseball to the face for her.

[Honeycombe8]

97. I don't know about that. I think I would've instinctively pushed my companion out of the way...

going by the way I've reacted instinctively in the past to things, though not exactly that. I think men have more that sort of instinct than women.

Remember the guy in the theater when that loony bird shot and killed so many people? The guy was holding his gf's baby, but when the shooting started, he instinctively dropped her or put her down & ran out to save himself, leaving the crying baby on the floor to be shot or trampled on. The baby ended up being okay (someone else picked him up and ran out of the theatre with the baby). I KNOW I wouldn't do that. My instinct would be to get an infant out...then for myself. I think most people, esp women, would instinctively react that way.

[Sharpie]

17. Ha....

I'm sure that is what was on his mind...

[MinneapolisMatt]

76. BWAHAHAA!

Comrade McKenzie!

[Blue_Tires]

144. I'm betting he also didn't get "in" that night, either....

[JI7]

3. stupid article

[msongs]

7. too bad she wasnt present enough to move so the ball missed her...like he did nt

[oldhippie]

49. Are you saying she (female) was not as smart (present) as the guy?

That's not going to go over well.

[HappyMe]

51. I think that poster meant that she

wasn't paying attention to what was going on around her.

I'm amazed that people in this thread are picking on that guy because he didn't catch the ball. She should have caught it.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. The only thoughtless part of his action was to

instinctively move out of the way of an object hurtling toward his head. It's too bad his girlfriend didn't move quickly enough, as well.

[siligut]

62. Exactly, looks like neither of them was paying attention and when something came flying at him . . .

He moved. It was instinct. He then immediately went back to check on her. Announcer was wrong to call him out. He did what anyone would do.

[pnwmom]

74. How could she see it? He was blocking her view -- till he wasn't.

[boguspotus]

108. Totally Agree

Jeez, give people a break, he moved out of instinct. He was right there when the baseball hit her. I don't think he's an evil, coward, sexist scumbag.

[trumad]

10. Baseball game---not match.

[blueamy66]

18. +1000

I use to work with a guy who called football games "matches". I wanted to smack him silly.

[Blue_Tires]

30. maybe he was from one of the other hundred countries that DOES say "match?"

[blueamy66]

41. An American football game is called a game, not a match.

Use the correct terminology.

No self-respecting US sports writer would ever call a football, basketball or baseball game a "match".

He also called the Carolina Panthers the Carol-een-a Panthers.

[Blue_Tires]

44. But this isn't a US sportwriter who wrote the piece...

They have their "correct terminology" in the UK, too and there they say "match", even when reporting on American sports...

[blueamy66]

111. okay...I won't argue anymore

bottom line....Americans call it a football game...so, if you're speaking of an American football game, call it as such...if you're speaking of a cricket game, call it a match....done and out

[McDiggy]

11. This is an interesting article...

...and another example of female privi...er, I mean benevolent sexism (sorry, forgot that I have to use the proper euphemisms here). This dude is expected to risk his own body to save a woman from potential physical harm. Reverse the sexes and its not even a story. Actually, people would probably laugh at it. When people wonder why in the world MRAs exist, its stuff like this. It perpetuates the societal expectation of male disposability for the sake of women. Men are expected to relieve themselves of patriarchal benefits, but hold on to patriarchal responsibilities. This is a perfect example of such. "How dare you protect yourself by jumping out of the way of a baseball traveling 150MPH. There is a WOMAN behind you!"

In a true egalitarian society, this "man must protect woman" thing wouldn't exist. The US still has a long way to go. If you care about womens' rights, this is the stuff you need to fight against, too. Because otherwise, many men will never get on board if they see nothing but less benefits, yet still heightened responsibility out of it. Less benefits, but less responsibility, especially via-a-vis the sacrifice of ones physical well being...that flies much better.

[JI7]

13. actually this WAS treated as a joke and people laughed at it with the girl giving thumbs up

[MadrasT]

12. He dove away from being hit, so what?

I would have too. It is unfortunate the woman was hit but it isn't his fault.

The idea he somehow dissed his girlfriend is ridiculous.

Fuck chivalry.

[Sharpie]

19. It's a slippery slope...

Sorry about those robbers honey but you're on your own...

The guy is a wimp and deserves every bit of mocking that he gets.

[randome]

29. Then the woman is a wimp for not being smart enough to get out of the way.

And for not trying to 'save her man'.

Silly girls.

[Sharpie]

31. Pff

[smirkymonkey]

86. Did it ever occur to you that she could not see the ball coming since her boyfriend's head

was in the way? Perhaps she was not stupid, she was just taken off guard.

[randome]

93. I was using a fallacious argument to make the point that the man is no more to blame than the woman.

I agree with you.

[smirkymonkey]

132. OK. I have no problem with you.

It just seem like a lot of people here are ganging up against the girlfriend and I think that seems unfair.

[cherokeeprogressive]

119. She ducked. Watch the video at :27 on. She saw the ball.

[smirkymonkey]

105. How could she see it it if her boyfreinds fat head was blocking her way?

[MadrasT]

33. Slippery slope my ass.

Fuck chivalry. It shouldn't exist.

[EOTE]

36. Then the girl is an idiot for not moving out of the way.

What the hell was she thinking? At least the man had a lick of sense. Maybe next time a ball is hurtling at her face, she won't be so stupid.

[smirkymonkey]

106. How could she could move out of the way if she didn't see it until her coward boyfrind

didn't duck out of the way?

[EOTE]

134. She could not be a blathering idiot.

I assume the girlfriend has eyes and ears and could see the trajectory of the ball. Or is she just a poor widdle womyn who must rely on her protector boyfriend to keep her safe? And I'm just going to take a guess that you're one of those who gets all up in arms regarding tripe such as "benevolent sexism". Don't worry, I'm sure there will be a big burly man to protect you from yourself any minute now.

[smirkymonkey]

135. Please, grow up.

What are you? 12?

[EOTE]

136. Grow up?

This from the person who insists a man needs to risk his own health because his girlfriend is too stupid to protect her own? I'm going to take a wild guess here and assume you also get offended when men hold doors open for you.

[smirkymonkey]

137. No, I don't. I find it quite charming actually.

I just think that men should be polite to women, and vice versa.

[EOTE]

139. Ahhh, so polite in your world means calling a man a coward

for having the nerve to not want to get injured. And then calling another man a child for having the audacity to point that out. You may consider that polite behavior, but most people would consider that the behavior of a sexist ass.

[smirkymonkey]

148. Again, please grow up.

That is all I have to say to you.

[EOTE]

149. I see, your insults are mature, sophisticated insults.

While mine are juvenile, patriarchal insults.

I would find your hypocrisy hilarious if I weren't so damned accustomed to it in threads like these.

[smirkymonkey]

152. You seem to be the one determined to pick a fight over things that I have not said.

I am not hurling insults. Please read my comments and understand that I am not insulting you. I am just asking you to back off on your juvenile behavior.

[EOTE]

153. Suggesting I'm 12 is not an insult?

And suggesting that a man is a coward for having a sense of self preservation isn't an insult to all men?

It's incredibly hypocritical for you to suggest that my behavior is juvenile with the infantile behavior you're engaging in. Don't worry, there are plenty of misandrists for you to pal around with here, just don't expect everyone to swallow your tripe whole.

[smirkymonkey]

155. OK, I admit that the 12 comment was a bit rude.

Sorry about that. But you seem quite bitter towards women. I would suggest that you tone it down a bit. You really do come on quite harsh.

[EOTE]

162. There's that hypocrisy again.

I'm quite bitter towards women? Funny you don't think calling a man a coward and a wimp for having the nerve to not get his face smashed in by a ball is being bitter toward them. I have no qualms with the woman being too slow and inattentive to move away from the ball. But to slam the man for having common sense is just the most insidious form of sexism. I would suggest that you tone it down a bit.

[lumberjack_jeff]

43. No it's not. It's the bottom of the slope.

Chivalry and equality are incompatible.

[Sharpie]

47. Then I'll choose chivalry...

There are differences between the genders and to pretend otherwise is silly...

[lumberjack_jeff]

56. Okay, I'll play along. What inherent difference requires him to take the injury? nt

[galileoreloaded]

79. his penis dontyaknow

[Bake]

124. Take the injury, hell! He should've caught the damn thing barehanded!

And taken the ball home as a souvenir! That's what any self-respecting baseball fan would have done!

Bake

[MattBaggins]

83. Do you understand instinct?

[Sharpie]

85. It's a high angle baseball that can be caught with bare hands...

... and not a grenade.

Everyone has fight or flight response but he lacks the ability to control his and his gf paid the price.

[EOTE]

140. Then why didn't she catch it with her bare hands?

I guess she both lacked the skills to avoid the ball or to catch it. At least her boyfriend had the good sense to move out of the way. Maybe he should be looking for a girlfriend who doesn't have the reflexes of a sloth.

[Sharpie]

150. Maybe she should look for a husband...

Who isn't so scared...

[EOTE]

151. I'll take scared over stupid any day.

The husband may have been scared that he was going to get clocked by a baseball, but at least he had the good sense to move out of the way. Trust me, it's absolutely no fun living with a stupid person.

[Luminous Animal]

157. Yep.

[HappyMe]

14. I guess they were both saved.

He was saved from being called a sexist, and she was saved from benevolent sexism.

[oldhippie]

50. That's the way I see it, too. nt

nt

[lunatica]

15. This story is crap

and it perpetuates the so-called war of the sexes that so many want to keep alive.

[morningfog]

16. Malevolent feminist?

[geek tragedy]

20. Forget the chivalry--who dodges a home run ball? ny

[Blue_Tires]

34. ^^^^^^ This guy gets it....

[alcibiades_mystery]

40. FUCKING EXACTLY!!!! I'm mystified by the responses

Who doesn't try to catch the home run ball? Who jumps out of the way of a home run ball? My seven year old daughter would try to catch that ball (I know, because she's done it before in Wrigley). I'm simply amazed by his reaction, and by the comments on this thread. This wasn't a hard hit foul ball zooming at somebody behind the first base dugout, fer chrissakes. It was a looping home run ball to deep center. I'm trying to imagine the mentality of somebody who knows and cares enough about baseball to go to a game and get those seats, but doesn't try to catch the ball - indeed, jumps away from it. I can't put all those things together. This is one of the weirdest videos I've ever seen. He jumps out of the way of a home run ball? Whaaaaat?!?

[DanTex]

54. Isn't it hard to catch a home run ball with bare hands? It looks kinda hard.

I don't know much about baseball.

[alcibiades_mystery]

55. No

[MattBaggins]

84. I can't understand people who can't understand instinct

isn't the same for everyone.

[geek tragedy]

129. Sure, but when you're attending a baseball game in a location whose prime benefit

is the possibility of catching a home run ball . . .

[Scout]

90. DUzy!

fucking duh, catch the ball!

[mattclearing]

121. My thought exactly. nt

[snooper2]

126. somebody who isn't very "manly"

LOL

[TheMightyFavog]

21. Typical asshole Cardinals fan.

A Brewers fan would never have done this.

[egduj]

25. Unfortunately, for my state anyway, it was probably an Arizona fan...

considering that's where they were playing.

[Javaman]

22. I think the real crime here is he didn't bring his mit to the game.

that's the real failure.

He had a golden opportunity to catch the ball!

[Blue_Tires]

32. Almost everyone stops bringing gloves to the ballpark when they get to, say

around 13-14 years old?

Real MEN can handle the hot ones...

[UncleYoder]

58. Excuse me?

I take my kids (grandkids now) to the game. We like to sit along the first base line. I sit in the seat closest to home plate WITH MY GLOVE ON. There is no way I'm letting a line drive foul hit one of them.

[Javaman]

60. +1 nt

[Javaman]

61. So you catch line drives with your bare hand?

not the brightest move in the world.

[JVS]

112. Given the Penguins avatar, I think we can assume he/she is a Pirates fan.

So assuming anything but the faintest familiarity with a well-hit ball would probably be a mistake. The balls are slow and soft by the time they reach the crowd at PNC park.

[Javaman]

131. lol nt

[Blue_Tires]

142. I'm actually a Mets fan

same principle, though

[JVS]

113. What would watching the Pirates ever teach you about "hot ones"

I used to take my glove to three rivers until I was about 12. Then the team became horrendous and I can't imagine needing the glove.

[Duer 157099]

143. Bullshit!

I sitll bring mine to hide under!!

I do. If a ball is coming my way, the glove goes in front of my face.

[AngryAmish]

64. Should he have worn his jersey too?

Maybe a full Ronnie Woo-Woo uniform?

[Javaman]

71. Sure why not?

such hate on a mild snarky comment.

[cherokeeprogressive]

116. I've never been to a Dodger game without my glove. n/t

[Mike Daniels]

23. My memory may be fuzzy - but didn't this also happen at another game a year or two back?

[frylock]

70. you may be thinking about the player that swung a chair at the assholes heckling him..

the man ducked and the chair hit his loudmouth wife.

[Marrah_G]

24. She should have ducked too!

[AsahinaKimi]

26. He was out of his seat

and in the aisle before that ball came. He could have told her to look out.. If I was her, I would be attending future ball games with my girl friends.. seriously!

[brewens]

27. C'mon man! Who goes to a game and doesn't try and catch the home run ball?

If nothing else, you're wearing a hat and prepared to use that. Most ten year old kids would have made the play. What a wuss!

[HappyMe]

35. Had she been paying attention, she could have caught the ball.

[brewens]

88. I used to clown around in practice playing outfield and use my hat sometimes.

I saw Willie Mays or someone do it in warmups or spring training once. Camp under the ball and instead of the usual Willie Mays basket catch, whip the hat off and use the hat!

[exboyfil]

28. Still better than the guy in the Colorado

movie theater shooting who not only left his baby, his girlfriend, and the girlfriend's young child. He then proceeded to hop in his car and drive away. A good samaritan a few years younger than the girlfriend helped her and the kids out of the theater. She later accepted her boyfriend's proposal of marriage. I though she would do a lot better with the good smaritan (or almost anyone else in my opinion).

[RiffRandell]

38. Pulled a George Costanza.

At least he didn't do this---total assholes:

[onpatrol98]

78. LOL...

Wow! If you're the clueless couple in the video you're embarrassed for life.

[lumberjack_jeff]

42. If it was his job to take the beaning, she should have paid for his ticket to the game.

In the real world, bodyguards are paid for their services.

[smirkymonkey]

102. You are an obvious woman hater.

He could have taken his girlfreind down with him - that was the the sensible option.

[lumberjack_jeff]

117. No, just the ones who would get mad at me for a basball that someone else hit. n/t

[cbdo2007]

45. She probably told all her friends she got hit by a field goal. hahahahaha

She should have moved out of the way like her boyfriend did.

[randome]

46. She'd probably fallen asleep.

You know how sermons are. And since some think of baseball as akin to worship, well...

[liberal N proud]

52. baseball match?

Since when did it become a "match"

[hfojvt]

59. it's anarchy in the UK

where they think games are matches, perhaps played with aluminium bats on a shedyool, instead of being a good old American game using aluminum and following a skedyull (schedule) and where people goto the bathroom instead of the lavatory.

[liberal N proud]

63. Boot instead of a trunk - I get it

[PotatoChip]

53. Much ado about nothing.

She appears to be fine, even giving the thumbs-up at the end of the slow-mo video.

Neither does she, or anyone else (other than the announcer) appear to blame him. It was just one of those 'wrong place at the wrong time moments'.

[Spirochete]

57. What's with that guy?

First fan i've ever heard of that wouldn't risk falling out of the bleachers going after a home run ball. They dogpile on each other trying to catch those things, usually.

[ZombieHorde]

65. Chivalry never existed. It is a myth, like the Easter Bunny. nt

[Catherina]

67. At least he can't be accused of benevolent sexism n/t

[Luminous Animal]

161. Yep. He was accused of NOT practicing benevolent sexism by men.

It's the traditionalist's problem. It is the traditionalist's problem at the event and in the press. They are the ones who are enforcing the notion that he needed to take the hit. I've not seen one feminist make that argument.

[frylock]

68. couple of things. first off it's a GAME, not a MATCH..

secondly, what kind of weenie gets out the way of an homerun ball rather than trying to catch it?!

[Cleita]

73. It would seem, not all Prince Charmings are heroes. n/t

[randome]

80. And vice-versa!

[JI7]

82. this had nothing to do with heroics

[MrSlayer]

75. She should be glad he respected her enough to not expose her to benevolent sexism.

After all, if he had protected her from the ball it would have been demeaning to her as a person. It would have been coddling and sending the message that she is inferior and can't catch or avoid a batted ball on her own.

This guy is a model for all men.

[Marr]

77. What a dick! I mean-- that's more like it! I mean--!

Pussy! Wait, no-- I mean--

AUUGHH...

/shortout

[treestar]

81. Hmmm, interesting

But it was probably just instinct. All sexes need to dive out of the way of a coming baseball. I doubt he had time to think about it. This is an attempt to stir it up on the battle of the sexes.

[alarimer]

87. Chivalry is sexist bullshit

He maybe should have pushed her out of the way too, but not taken the ball to the face or wherever just to protect the "little woman."

[Scout]

92. this is true.

we should all just be polite to everyone and forget which sex is supposed to do what special thing for which one or not for the other.

[LisaL]

89. I really doubt that he was thinking that if he jumps out, it hits her in the face.

Jumping out of the way is instinctive.

[randome]

96. No, he should have borrowed a protractor and a compass...

...and figured out the angle and trajectory and then he could have warned anyone who might be within its path!

[Gormy Cuss]

98. Exactly.

When I'm in the ball park and the ball is coming my way I duck. If I were near a child I'd be inclined to make sure the child wasn't in danger but honestly I doubt that I'd worry about the adults around me.

I saw a guy get beaned by a foul ball. It wasn't pretty.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

94. I have just 2 fears in life. Public speaking and...

Baseballs. I've been to a lot of baseball games and have seen a lot of balls hit right at me. Not once have I stuck out my hand. Rather, I look for cover. I know it looks different on TV, but that's really deceiving. Balls never land where you think. You stick out your hand to catch it and it sails 10 rows past you. I'm not sure what I would have done. I'm afraid of the ball so I'm getting away. Then there's a split second between when you realize where it's going to hit--near you or 10 rows past--and where it will hit.

A hard ball hit with that force hurts. I don't care what it looks like on TV. I was play tennis today. It was cold. My partner hit the ball long and I caught it. It stung. A tennis ball!

[Duer 157099]

146. Same here!

Those are my two fears too. Well, and heights. And bridges. And wasps. Hmmm now that I'm thinking of it, there are more...

Oh well.

But I bring my glove anyway to protect myself.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

154. Heights, too! And a Giants fan!

Grew up in the Bay Area and spent many a cold summer's night at The Stick. Croix de Candlestick ring a bell?

[Munificence]

99. "There is no crying in Baseball"

[polly7]

100. Just an instinctive reaction, imo.

I got hit in the cheek by a slap-shot before we had plexi-glass around the sides of our rink ... my brother was standing right in front of me. He still apologizes to this day, but he didn't even have time to think of anything but 'DUCK'.

[Bay Boy]

101. Is this what a baseball match is?

[Rhythm]

107. Don't know about anyone else, but if i'm sitting by the wall, i'm taking my glove...

I'm sorry this gal got hit... and that the boyfriend apparently didn't warn her (if he saw the ball coming and she didn't)...

But it's a baseball game, and you are sitting right at the fence...
Why the hell are you NOT paying attention to where the ball is?!?!

~~~~~

Same goes for anyone watching a hockey game, and sitting anywhere that a puck might leave the ice and hit you...

I saved a guy's teeth once at a minor-league game...
Our seats were behind the net and just above the glass, and a stranger in the next seat didn't see the errant slap-shot coming. I was a rec-league goalie, and had my glove with me, so i snagged it a few inches from his face.
I still have that puck...

[dembotoz]

110. on occasion i get to go with a friend who has really really good season tickets

my eyesight and reflexes are not so hot

I hope she pushes me out of the way to catch the damn thing

[JVS]

114. My grandmother was over 50 when she went to her first baseball game.

She grew up following the Tigers during the Ty Cobb era. But at the time the ballpark was not considered a place for women and children. It would be like taking the family to the dog track today.

[treestar]

133. Oh my

Never thought of that. My grandfather recalled having to wait for the train to bring the newspapers in order to find out the Phillies' scores. Later he took boats from Delaware to Philadelphia and walked to the field from the port to attend the games!

[cherokeeprogressive]

118. The whole story is idiotic. She DUCKED as he was moving out of the way. Watch from :27 on.

It's not like they didn't show it at least THREE different times from TWO different angles.

She fucking ducked. Her bad fortune to have not ducked in the right direction.

Pure idiocy and useless controversy over something that happens countless times: Someone ducking but moving the wrong way and getting hit by something.

[TimberValley]

120. Once and for all, do feminists want chivalry or don't they?

I am more confused than ever.

[Luminous Animal]

156. Was this story reported by feminists? Are feminists on her condemning his actions?

Quite clearly, the announcer who publicly denounced him is a man but, at this time, I haven't a clue whether or not he is a feminist. Do you?

[Ian David]

128. Good for him. He avoided being benignly sexist.

[boston bean]

130. Some guy makes a sexist comment

and everyone wants to blame feminists.

Go fucking figure!

[Luminous Animal]

158. Crazy, huh? He was publicly shamed by another man. He is further shamed

in the sports pages for doing something that I have not seen ONE feminist criticize him.

[ieoeja]

138. I guess I have the worst eyesight here. Because I can't tell whether he dodged the ball or not.

I see him jump away about the same time the ball hits. But I can't tell if he jumped before or after it hit.

The only odd thing I see is that he then rushes to her side instead of running after the ball like most people do. What kind of person worries more about their possibly injured friend?

Weirdo.

[Duer 157099]

141. ::grumble grumble Cards grumble grumble::

Damn did they ever kick our ass yesterday.

Grumble grumble grumble... ooh yeah, poor lady, that probably hurts even more.

[gollygee]

145. It isn't his fault his girlfriend got hit by the ball

When you dive out of the way to avoid something, you don't know where it's going to end up - he didn't know it was going to hit his girlfriend. And she could have dove out of the way too.

Now, I have an instinct when I'm with my kids to dive in front of them to block things that are flying/falling toward them, but I don't expect people to have that instinct around adults.

Anyway, sometimes people just get hurt and it isn't anyone's fault.

[Luminous Animal]

159. I agree. But apparently, there are a bunch of men who are all up in arms about this.

[Liberal_in_LA]

147. ouch

[Luminous Animal]

160. Too bad so many men feel the need to condemn this guy. Publicly shamed at the event...

and now in the press.

I've been all over the internet looking for the public shaming from a feminist perspective.

Nada.