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Originally Posted by Locke

The United States Women's National Soccer Team and her sponsors, not to mention law enforcement.

The point is about equality and now people want to start introducing caveats to that equality.

And I'm not playing the strawman game, if you want to talk about hypotheticals then take a creative writing class.

It's not a caveat to argue that severity and context are a mitigating factors, nor is it to say that she should be allowed her due process. One of the issues that's bothered me about the NFL in the past and present is that their "discipline" structure often ignores due process. No one is excusing her behaviour "because she's a woman." Like I said, if you want to then by all means set your moral compass to the letter of the law, I just think it's an overly simplistic view on things.

I think this writer brings up some valid points.

http://screamer.deadspin.com/what-we...-ho-1637573199

We must be nearing the last act in the "NFL and domestic violence" story cycle: media pundits are now calling for Hope Solo to be pilloried. Fans of the USWNT will know well that Solo is facing assault charges. That story is not new. Washington Post editors might want to claim that this is "the domestic violence case that no one is talking about," but that claim only works if we ignore the Seattle Times, which, for example, has covered the story consistently, and responsibly, through their Seattle Sounders FC blog (Solo plays for Seattle Reign). The fact is that the national news media basically doesn't give a #### about women's sports stories unless they can be made into stories about men. Unless Solo's case, in other words, can appear as a footnote to the Ray Rice story and (worse) absorbed into some broad popular sense that women, in general, are somehow getting away with something.

For the media pundit, all of these cases are all the same. This is, in fact, how sexist and racist ideologies work—the media discourse will move towards a "there are two sides of the story" structure. Given that there is no way to produce a story of Janay Palmer as the aggressor from the image of her knocked unconscious, we must find some other woman—a woman who is violent, just like men are violent. And thus the turn to Hope Solo, who faces fourth degree assault charges stemming from a (by all available accounts on both sides) chaotic, drunken, violent confrontation with her half-sister and 17-year old nephew. Solo's case is still pending: it was a brawl—and it's unclear how it got started. The situation was bad enough, however, to merit the charges advancing through the system. Her teams are standing by her. Seattle Reign have been clear that they'll take appropriate disciplinary action pending the outcome of the court case.