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agilebritYeah, I'm going to rant. And I'm going to say some insensitive things about a dude who committed suicide
Okay, so Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher committed suicide yesterday in front of his coaches and teammates. This is horrible for them and my heart goes out to them.
And they did a little piece about that at halftime on CBS today. Which, okay, again, dude was a football player and his loss hit his team hard. Especially a loss like that.
What I am not okay with is the way they treated Kasandra Perkins, the woman he murdered before he killed himself, as some kind of fucking afterthought. "Oh, and it's also really tragic because a young woman also lost her life." They couldn't even be bothered to use her name.
No, assholes. She didn't "lose her life" like you lose a set of fucking car keys. He shot her several times before he did the state a favor and turned the gun on himself. But apparently murdering the mother of his child wasn't enough for this selfish sonofabitch, he had to go down to Arrowhead Stadium and kill himself in front of his coaches and teammates.
Clearly the dude had problems. And I'd have a hell of a lot more sympathy for him if he hadn't, you know, murdered Kasandra before he offed himself. But I'm not going to apologize for the fact that he gets no sympathy from me. I'll save my sympathy for his coaches, his teammates, his family, and his little girl.
And, hey, NFL commentators? How about mentioning her name next time you bring this up?
Okay, so Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher committed suicide yesterday in front of his coaches and teammates. This is horrible for them and my heart goes out to them.
And they did a little piece about that at halftime on CBS today. Which, okay, again, dude was a football player and his loss hit his team hard. Especially a loss like that.
What I am not okay with is the way they treated Kasandra Perkins, the woman he murdered before he killed himself, as some kind of fucking afterthought. "Oh, and it's also really tragic because a young woman also lost her life." They couldn't even be bothered to use her name.
No, assholes. She didn't "lose her life" like you lose a set of fucking car keys. He shot her several times before he did the state a favor and turned the gun on himself. But apparently murdering the mother of his child wasn't enough for this selfish sonofabitch, he had to go down to Arrowhead Stadium and kill himself in front of his coaches and teammates.
Clearly the dude had problems. And I'd have a hell of a lot more sympathy for him if he hadn't, you know, murdered Kasandra before he offed himself. But I'm not going to apologize for the fact that he gets no sympathy from me. I'll save my sympathy for his coaches, his teammates, his family, and his little girl.
And, hey, NFL commentators? How about mentioning her name next time you bring this up?
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Date: 2012-12-03 05:14 am (UTC)And of course now they're all coming out of the woodwork bleating "culture of gun violence, blah blah baa" like good little sheep. Because a friggin' linebacker couldn't kill a woman with his bare hands or anything, right? Bob Costas, I am disappoint. I am not surprised, but I am disappoint. Why in the world did you have to go out of your way to quote the stupid parts of that article?
The whole thing is just gross.
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Date: 2012-12-03 05:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-03 05:19 am (UTC)BTW, I'm curious about your username: are you actually a Brit? Or am I misunderstanding the meaning?