The most famous elevator video in the world continues to shake the football world. Now former FBI chief Robert Mueller will investigate the league’s handling of the matter. If it turns out that Roger Goodell or others lied about the case, there will clearly be resignations coming.
The video is shocking and even our jaded world has no trouble rising up with righteous indignation. The National Organization for Women has called for “an independent investigator with full authority to gather factual data about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking within the entire NFL community.” Fine. But most men who hurt women these days don’t do it with their closed fists. The far more common method is through the divorce courts or by fathering children they don’t stick around to raise. There’s a new study (and take it, as with all studies, with a grain of salt), suggesting that children of affluent families are even more damaged by divorce than others. Of course the women in these relationships bear some of the blame — let’s say half, though who knows? Still, we all know of situations in which prominent men have fathered multiple children by different mothers, married none of them, and yet are treated as respected members of society. We, and NOW, should spare some righteous indignation for them.






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