I wonder if i was watching the same video as everyone else some times.. especially the media and their feminist pundits.
When Rice entered the elevator his girlfriend (now wife) backhanded him and then attaked him, flailing with closed fists. Rice knocked her cold with a single strike in response. One that produced no permanent injury.. or apparently any marks.. which would indicate a pulled punch. You would have a great problem prosecuting a case of assault or abuse in this case.. as by contemporary standards Rice was within his rights to protect himself and had not delivered the initial blow.
They were both drunk (which was primary reason for the girl's collapse and incapacity) and had been arguing verbally prior to entering the elevator. His wife admitted to her role in the altercation.. and they've kissed and made up.
Now, in fairness, Rice is a 230 pound professional athlete in peak physcial condition. His girlfriend is a 120 pounds of a somewhat thin and fragile consitution.
But the feminist movement has demanded the elimination of the 'old' rules.. where a man simply does not hit a woman.. to one of equality and gender blindness before the law. Well okay. then the same rules should apply to both.
What irritates me is the pathetic pandering of the feminists to their 'victimization' by men portraying themselves as deserving the special 'pedastal' that so adamantly claim to reject.. but only when it suits them and their cause.
Don't get me wrong. I condemn all battery of all kinds.. and especially against women. I just don't like the opportunistic hypocrisy of the feminist movement in this case who've made a political motif out of the case. There are far worse examples of spousal abuse than this.. and it all goes on in secret, without this public uproar.