CBS sportscaster James Brown takes "men" as a class to task for allowing domestic violence. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24709126/watch-hannah-storm-cris-carter-on-nfls-domestic-violence-problem There are few things more off-putting than some sports journalist getting all holier-than-thou and toting the PC line on one issue or another. Brown starts with the example I cite in the headline -- and, no, I'm not making that up. To fail to see the chasm between saying "you throw like a girl" and domestic violence is, itself, a significant problem for women because that kind of focus does nothing to address the real problem.

Blaming "men" for the misconduct of a very small subset of men is akin to the "rape culture" trope that feminists trot out to "prove" that they are chronically victimized by a male-dominated society. RAINN, the nation's leading anti-rape organization, has recently taken a position we've long advocated by debunking the "rape culture" meme: "Rape is caused not by cultural factors but by the conscious decisions, of a small percentage of the community, to commit a violent crime," RAINN wrote. https://rainn.org/images/03-2014/WH-Task-Force-RAINN-Recommendations.pdf This is what we've been preaching here for years. RAINN decried the "inclination to focus on particular . . . traits that are common in many millions of law-abiding Americans (e.g., 'masculinity'), rather than on the subpopulation at fault: those who choose to commit rape." (We wrote about these issues here: http://www.cotwa.info/2014/05/cotwa-was-right.html) Telling "men" in general that they are mistreating women with comments about "throwing like a girl" is more likely to evoke wincing and eye rolling than serious retrospection about how men treat women. Most men, and most women who know men, will dismiss Brown as a PC blowhard whose words mean nothing. Perhaps if Brown is interested in making a difference, he would stop ignoring the elephant in the room: the problem isn't toxic masculinity, it's not enough decent masculine role models in the inner city.