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langleyparkjoe wrote:Very very very good post my friend. You're right, I can not judge you or your situation as I was never in a similar/same thing.

.. and oh yes, we'll pick up the slack for sure my brutha!!

Now.. has that women beater been locked up yet????

LOLOL

As it pertains to the Dallas Cowgirls and this fictional reality in which we revel in on Sundays, I'm elated that it'll decrease their effectiveness.

As it pertains to Dez the human being, I'm saddened for him and hope that he can take responsibility in ensuring that his future is positive. It has to be jarring to have a mother who is only 14 years your senior and wasn't an active participant in your life. Truly, she's not his mother in the sense that most of us recognize but more so just another female.

I feel badly for Dez Bryant. I agree with CLL that his background does not excuse his behavior, but I can only imagine how difficult his childhood must have been. A lot of kids get to spend that time playing with friends and coming home to dinner, a warm bed, and a mother/father that love them. I'm sure that even millions of dollars can't make up for the scars his childhood must have left him with.

Still . . . regardless of whether you love her or hate her or she loves or hates you, a man only gets one mother. Not that it needed to be said.

Irn-Bru wrote:a man only gets one mother. Not that it needed to be said.

True. But just cus you push a kid out doesn't make you a mother... Not anymore than getting a woman pregnant makes you a father...

The biological aspect IMO doesn't garner you those "rights" that most parents get to operate within. People find that difficult to fathom with mothers, but they can be just as non-existant as a dead beat father.

1niksder wrote:

Chris Luva Luva wrote:

Irn-Bru wrote:a man only gets one mother. Not that it needed to be said.

True. But just cus you push a kid out doesn't make you a mother... Not anymore than getting a woman pregnant makes you a father...

The biological aspect IMO doesn't garner you those "rights" that most parents get to operate within. People find that difficult to fathom with mothers, but they can be just as non-existant as a dead beat father.

Amen. Implantation and delivery are the easy parts. Raising and nurturing, that's what makes you a mother/father.

At first read, I thought these measures seemed ridiculous. This changed my mind:

The mother he's accused of assaulting is 14 years older than he is and has done jail time for selling crack. There is no father in the picture. The book on Bryant's family is that it cared nothing about him until he got drafted and started making large sums of money. Leaving Bryant to fend for himself in that environment is a recipe for failure

Skinsfreak wrote:Evidently beating up his mother is a regular and common practice for this jerk. What a piece of crap this guy is. I don't care what the reason or circumstance, putting your hands on any woman, especially your own mother, is one of the most despicable things any man could ever do.

Dan Graziano wrote:And let's be careful how we use terms like "grown man." This young man is 23 years old and has obviously been the victim of negligence when it comes to his emotional and behavioral development. He's not a finished product. Far from it, in fact. To give up on a person at that age just because you think he's had enough time to figure everything out is shortsighted

Sometimes I think we tend to project our own personal narratives of family and respect onto other's sitautions. I don't disagree with skinsfreak, really. But I do think, piggy backing off of CLL, that before we can heap additional shock and awe onto Bryant hitting his "mother", we probably have to differentiate who that woman is, because right now we're just talking, apparently, about the woman who gave birth to him.