re: Former tennis player goes public on Davis.*Interesting Updates*

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Pretty much everyone accepts she was hit. You keep trying to steer it back to that.

You are holding LSU morally (not just Title IX obligations) responsible for a toxic relationship she chose to participate in time and time again in her off-campus apartment. There is no reasonable counterfactual where but not for LSU's behavior, she wouldn't have been abused. She was an adult who wouldn't go to the police and in fact sabotaged their attempts to charge another adult who she chose to keep seeing. It's so weak to try to impugn LSU on that from a moral ground even if its a clear policy violation.

Girls have agency and its cringy when you act like sports are inherently tied in to a girl's agency or lackthereof to not keep associating with men who will hit them.

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Agreed. This is my stance as well. If coaches and admins violated rules, then by all means they should be punished, fired, whatever. I'm not defending anyone.

But adults have to take responsibility for their actions. If they gave Drake Davis the fricking electric chair, I wouldn't care.

But mistakes were made by all involved, including the victim, and mistakes have consequences.

Reporting Title IX violations is not some magic bullet that would've made all this better. Nothing would've changed. Davis violated a restraining order to go beat her arse. You think title IX would've stopped him?

Looks like the girl was still following and liking his social media posts as recently as yesterday before she got called out on it here and other places, and stopped.

You can talk all you want about battered woman syndrome, but I think that is completely sexist and removes agency from women and excuses all bad behavior and poor decision making.