Stephen A. Smith is an insufferable douche. His sports analysis is half-baked, his broadcast manner is ridiculous. I would LOVE if this meant the end of his ESPN career.
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Years back I once saw Smith on Bill Maherâs Real Time show. Having seen Smith on other venues, in which he would weigh in on sports-related issues, I assumed that he would have been Maherâs equal, with respect to verbal acuity.
His appearance was on a beginning segment in which Bill would sometimes be seen talking to a guest piped in on a bigscreen.
Surprisingly (at least to me at the time), Smith seemed out of his depth.
This incident dealing with âthose provokinâ womenâ helps me understand that Bill Maher segment a little better.
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Maybe you need to go to a better class of restaurants.
Thatâs right: something with 100 unavoidable flatscreens!
And all you can eat wings on wednesday.
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Thank you. I was trying to think of a way to express what you said.
Life hint to Mr. Smith, if your female partner says or does something that provokes you, simply leave. Contact her by phone after you have both had a chance to calm down. Hitting her because you are angry is wrong for every possible reason. You are going to be considered the abuser no matter how badly she hurt your feelings.
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Translation: If those darn uppity women would stop pissing men off, men would stop hitting them.
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Steven Smithâs explanation reminds me of the cutting remark made by the late Sam Kinison, mocking people of Smithâs bent:
âI donât condone wife-beating. I UNDERSTAND it but I donât condone it.â
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I still canât believe there is a network where guys just talk about sports all day long. Painful.
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Would they help in his case?
Oh, My God!! He just doesnât get it. Iâm disappointed. I am not a sports enthusiast my any stretch of the imagination, but I occasionally listen to this guy. I am disappointed, but hope that the mother and sister to whom he often refers, gives him a sensitivity lesson on how women should be treated.
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Jumping to conclusions into a socio-economic realm out of my kennen, I think what he was trying to say is âDonât push buttonsâ by saying things that escalate the situation.
Weâve all been guilty at least once of not resisting the urge at hurling the one come back we know will really piss someone off. In this case, she said it to a âmanâ incapable of reacting in any other fashion than physically.
In the immortal words of OJ Simpson on an exercise video outtake: âThe next time you hit the little woman, you can always blame it on the workout.â
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Or blogs that just discuss politics all day long.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pounding of cureâŚ
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Stephen A. Smith certainly is âprovocativeâ.
He also thinks Tony Dungyâs comments about Michael Sam are reasonable, because he too, thinks Sam is going to disrupt that most sacred and civilized place: the locker room.
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âI wasnât BLAMING women for anything,â he wrote. âI was simply saying to take all things into consideration for preventative purposes. Period.â
Women do take precautions from the start of their formative years. What about you pigs?
Yes.
We women need to stop âpushing buttonsâ. See? Women are emotional, but men are apparently so fragile that the least bit of button-pushing means itâs entirely understandable that the man is going to react by physically assaulting the woman.
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Oh. So itâs the womanâs fault for saying something that escalated the situation?
Or itâs the womanâs fault for âpushing buttonsâ? Yeah.
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I donât think he realizes that its loaded issueâŚhe is that unaware of his environment. And he obviously lacks the mental capacity to engage in a much deeper conversation on the topic of domestic abuse.
I am not saying that to be flippant. I honestly believe he is just clueless on this topic.
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No. Sorry. No one is âincapable of reacting in any other fashion than physically.â
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