Adrian Peterson Is An Idiot
Before two weeks ago I would have bet my life savings on Adrian Peterson still beating his kid. There was no way he didn’t still do that. Despite all the outrage when the news hit, Peterson seemed to be genuinely baffled and confused that people reacted so harshly. He didn’t feel caught. He didn’t seem like people found him out. He seemed to genuinely not understand why people were mad. It was clear that Peterson simply never saw his form of discipline as a negative. It was simply what you did. So despite suffering a notable suspension and tons of public backlash over whipping his child’s scrotum bloody, I didn’t expect him to change. Not meaningfully.
He grew up in an environment where beating your kid is still acceptable. There are a lot of people who still think this is an effective and not barbaric form of discipline. He probably saw his suspension as bullshit nonsense, the same way a dumb kid on Youtube might casually use racial slurs or other hate speech and then complain at all “The SJWs” who were bothered by it of looking at themselves and considering maybe there is some personal responsibility there and some introspection needed.
But I never thought that after all that happened, he’d be dumb enough to just straight up admit he still whips his kids. Peterson spent a full year on suspension and lost almost all his public goodwill after those pictures came out. His career after that moment was basically a shell of itself that felt gross to touch until he finally managed to find some glory again just this year. After years of being a former great but another bad person that people felt ashamed they rooted for, people were finally back to liking him. Maybe he still thinks such physical discipline is okay, but you’d think a man who’d suffered such a hit to his career and standing would have enough goddamn brain cells to not admit he still does it. Lie! Tell a soft half truth that you more carefully consider your punishments now! Talk about how you are still firm but do your best to not physically harm your child! Don’t say you avoid using the switch 9 times out of 10. THAT MEANS YOU STILL USE IT AND EVERYONE KNOWS, YA MORON. How is he so dumb? (Insert CTE joke here)
I don’t know if anything will come out of this. It would be an easy sell for the NFL to just punish him again. The Skins are using him for a year rental anyway while Derrius Guice rehabs. Stick him out to dry for being a dipshit, let his late career resurgence die, move on to cooler new dudes like Alvin Kamara and Saqoun. But 2014 was a very different news climate than 2018, and what counted for outrage back then seems almost delightfully quaint now. Remember when the biggest political debate in football was the Skins racist name? Nobody even bothers to bring that up anymore because of how small potatoes it seems in the new world we inhabit. Outrage and scandal cycles out at an alarming rate and I’m probably already too late to comment on this as the story has probably already moved on. I’d like to see something happen, even if it is just a fine.
Make it a fine for being a big dumb idiot if nothing else.
EDIT: THIS IS THE WED COMIC I FINISHED IT EARLY AND SCHEDULED IT WRONG MAYBE I WAS THE IDIOT ALL ALONG
Just wait until his kid starts singing “I see Daddy beating Santa Claus”.
AP is a curious specimen. He’s the very definition of a Southern Boy. His poppa done whipped him and he whips his kids. He is actually a very good test of the NFL and their audience. Behaviour like this is neither uncommon or frowned upon in the South, whereas in the Media Corridors of LA and New York, this kind of thing is considered inhumane.
The NFL wants to keep its media partners happy as thats where the money is, but it needs to keep its fanbase happy, and thats weakened in the South after ol Cheeto-face started ranting about kneeling being anti-american, so many franchises Doubled Down on Patriotism to ensure the fans didnt stop attending.
The NFL is a Dichotomy. It wants aggressive, destructive football but it also wants its players to behave like absoloute gentlemen despite being hit in the head 40-50 times a game. The balancing act is there for all to see, and in AP the debate is being played out publicly.
It is frowned upon in the South, just not all of the South. I know many people who work at both the Mongomery County (where it happened) and Harris County (Houston and inner suburbs) prosecutors that wish he’d done it 20 miles to the south, where there would have been no question of a conviction.
Montgomery County. Derp.
Even in the South, whipping until there’s damage to the scrotum isn’t really widely accepted.
Source: Southern boy myself
Yeah, there’s a difference between spanking and stuff like that and literal scrotum torture.
No matter how many studies show that beating children stunts their emotional growth, people will always fall back on “I was hit and I turned out fine.” Just because something “worked” in the past doesn’t mean it is acceptable or humane.
““I was hit and I turned out fine.”
You got involved in a sport where violence towards other people is the main attraction for fans and players alike. You’re likely to have CTE in later life, and no understanding of why your actions are unacceptable to the majority of people.
So no AP (or any other footballer using this argument), you didnt really turn out fine.
Whipping balls reminds me of Casino Royale…
God, I’m sick of the cop out excuse “Well, his parents/grandparents did it to him, it’s all he knows!” Fucking Richard Pryor of all people had bits talking about how his dad regularly beat the shit out of him and how his grandma made him get the switch that she whipped him with. He followed it up by saying this is why he could never do the same to his kids. The show in question came out in 1977, so if height of his coke frenzy Pryor could learn, fucking 2018 AP could learn too.
Disciplining children is a necessary thing. But there is a line. I’m not saying he crossed it. I have just always steered clear when it comes to people parenting their own children. Watch for the obvious signs of things going to far. But forcing a parents hand to the point when they can no longer be parents is ridiculous. I live in the south. I was raised by the whole “spare the rod, spoil the child”. I raised my kids that way too. I rarely ever had to discipline my kids because I raised them based on respect. I’d like to think that has turned out well so far. All that being said, AP has the right to discipline his child within reason and it’s not our right to judge him for how he does it. Dude should at least not make it public though. That’s just asking for it.
Where on the acceptable spectrum of child discipline is “whipping his child’s balls bloody”, cuz for me that absolutely isn’t acceptable
It’s not. That was even the prosecutor’s intended argument at trial if it went that far. He was gonna argue that it wasn’t a referendum on corporal punishment, because even people who favor corporal punishment would consider what he did abusive.
I didn’t mean in that context. I am in no way whatsoever defending him. As I said, AP has a right to discipline his child WITHIN REASON. What he did before was not anywhere close to reasonable. I only said all that because there are a lot of people out there who use cases like this as a reason to not discipline children AT ALL. It doesn’t have to be “spanking” or however you want to word it. Kids growing up have to learn that bad behavior has consequences. The whole subject is a tough one though (taking AP’s situation out of this for a moment). I disciplined my kids. That doesn’t mean it was physical discipline, as that was rarely ever needed. I found ways that were effective without demeaning or demoralizing them and I often explained that to my children so they knew. That’s all I was trying to say. Obviously, AP took things too far. For him to bring all that back up now is stupid on his part. So Dave, on that spectrum….what he did wasn’t close to acceptable.
Hi iam sorry iam not a native american – i have problems to understand the way the arguement goes here.
I will try to explain my thoughts and where it comes from even if i not think of myself as very religious.
Kids are not my but first and foremost “Gods Childs” and I as a parent have the privilege to cherish them and see them grow.
physical violence and Brutality is no way of arguement between men! For me there is no reason why it should be allowed to punish “your Kids” you dont own them, they are men like all other human of the world.
Tom Savage is a Bungle
At least he aint a Peterman ….
(and the Texans are 8-3 … soft schedule or not, the Texans are somehow 8-3.)
As for Savage
Starts the year with the Texans , joins the Saints , waived, joins the Niners , waived , resigns with the Niners , waived ,joins the Bengals.
Those signing bonuses must be mounting up.
If he signs with every team, a SB ring is a sure thing.
I wonder what the record for teams in a season is. 4 has to be close.
Season aint over yet.
I can confidently predict if he gets cut, he will show up somewhere else.
And no matter how bad he gets, he will still get a job before anyone even looks sideways @ Kaep.
On one hand, beating a child is disgusting.
On the other hand, I dread going out to places because I have to endure spoiled children bossing their parents around.
That there’s middle grounds keep me from being too pessimistic.
I see an awful lot of lazy parents slap their horribly behaved children who continue to behave horribly because whupping children is not an effective way to discipline them. Don’t beat your children and don’t coddle them either.
The only thing beating your kids teaches them is that it’s okay to hit someone you’re upset with.
Exactly. We always say to kids, that they shouldn´t hit other kids. But it´s ok to hit kids as a parent? That´s so hypocritical.
The Skins have now signed Reuben Foster, so it’s a new 24 hour outrage. You were right: this cycled through and no one noticed or cared. And the beat goes on… (Uhhh…wait a minute)
it actually makes his timing shockingly perfect with the Foster signing. I honestly thought that’s where it was going after the second panel and was impressed at the turnaround speed.
dave, you COULD just add/change a couple panels to account for foster and emphasise the skins’ villainy even more.
(also, you need to add an “instead” in the second paragraph)
Jerry Jones : “I can sign Greg Hardy and I dont are about public opinion for signing a wife beater”
Dan Snyder : “Hold my Beer”
And to be fair, a signing like this is just reflective of who Dan Snyder is, and how he runs the organisation. I assume everyone has seen his rather tasteless selling of Sean Taylor teddy bears this week.
Being so completely out of touch with reality, obsessed with making money, and having no respect for anyone living or dead, I expect him to announce his candidacy for POTUS shortly.
Seriously? Sean Taylor teddy bears? WTF?
This, the Sean Taylor dolls, and the Reuben Foster pick up complete with misspelling Doug William’s name on the release, all while named a slur….. did Washington just experience the worst PR week in NFL history?