You make a statement about "guns blazing" when you were found guilty of throwing your girlfriend onto a couch covered in guns and then choking her. Pretty idiotic.
Eh. It's a figure of speech. I feel the same way about people who talk about "going to war", or "throwing bombs" or being "warriors". There are enough things to be outraged about; this isn't one of them, unless you're really looking for offense. Also, for the record, Hardy's guilty verdict was vacated on appeal.
Then the Giselle comment -- he was asked about Tom Brady, in a press conference about football. Now, in a vaccuum, a player commenting on Tom Brady's wife as if she were a pretty luxury sports car that he owns ("Man, I hope he drives his awesome Lamborghini to the game. That would be sweet.") would just be in poor taste.
But in the context of this dirtbag who just served a suspension for the above-referenced domestic abuse -- about which there is no question that he actually committed it -- the statement comes off as almost defiantly misogynistic, like he knows he got away with something and he's proud to come out in his first press conference making statements objectifying women who he's never met and who maybe just want to come to a game to support their significant others, not be talked about like Jerry Jones's newest stadium upgrade.
I don't equate compliments about the attractiveness of a lingerie model with domestic violence. I don't think they have anything to do with one another. Hardy likes to look at Gisele and her supermodel friends? So does just about every straight man on earth.
When I originally heard that Hardy had made some inappropriate comments about Brady and Gisele, I figured he said something fairly crude. Instead, it was basically "Tom is a cool guy and his wife and her friends are dropdead gorgeous".
Punish Hardy for his crimes. 4 games for a crime that was ultimately dismissed? I'm fine with that. However, attacking him for comments like "guns blazing" and "Tom is cool; I hope his wife and friends come to the game" just seems like a hyper-PC reaction.
I mean, ask yourself, what's more misogynistic and exploitative of women: Greg Hardy saying that he hopes to see Gisele at the game, or Katie Nolan making jokes about performing oral sex, downplaying sexual harassment in the workplace (joking that women who complain about harassment in the workplace are the equivalent of obese women who say they have "a few extra pounds" on dating websites), and wearing cleavage-showing outfits for an audience that is dominated by males?
Then to add insult to injury, you have an actual honest to goodness "reporter" piling on and trying to milk Hardy for another sexist line. Like, really? Have some pride in your craft.
I do agree with this.
