Letters to the Editor
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Good point, Catherine.
I've another. When another athlete, John Amaechi, announced that he was gay, threads at www.si.com and www.espn.com were flooded with folks who call themselves Christians casting judgments at Mr. Amaechi. Tom Brady reveals himself to be a fornicator (in the Biblical sense), but there aren't threads filled with Bible-based condemnations. No, out there in Straight Man Land, there are only wistful, longing says for Tom Brady's inveterate fornication and the corporeal qualities of his partners.
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You're right
I don't blame you for being fed up. After all, it's only actually the case about 97% of the time.
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You missed the item in the Chicago Tribune
It made a pun based on "pass" completion.
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Have they ever heard of birth control?
Call me old fashioned and anything else you want, but can't anyone manage to get married before they decide to have a child? They know they can't make a commitment in a marriage, but they go ahead and have a child together? Guess what -- the kid is a lot more permanent and binding than any marriage license will ever be. This is selfish behavior on both sides of the gender line. I feel sorry for the baby.
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Not a prude but...
Anonymous wrote: "They know they can't make a commitment in a marriage, but they go ahead and have a child together? Guess what -- the kid is a lot more permanent and binding than any marriage license will ever be."
I consider myself a progressive, a feminist, and by no means a prude.
And I totally agree with your above statement.
FYI: I'm not going to go into contraceptive failure rates, and I have no idea what Brady and Moynahan were using. Nor do I care.
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All I can think is what a creep!
Okay so you date a woman for three years, according to gossip they broke up mid-December. Even if he doesn't want to be dating her anymore, the fact is you don't jet off around the world with some model when a woman you cared about is pregnant with your child. Didn't we all call K. Fed a total creep for doing that to Shar Jackson?
Now sports fans are always going to side with their heroes and make fun of the woman. But on the one hand it does seem a little odd that if the relationship is going down the tubes that instead of being extra careful with your birth control, instead now you're a little careless maybe, subconsciously? So who knows maybe she did get knocked up in hopes to keep Tom around, maybe it was an accident or maybe she saw it as her last chance to breed with a very fit specimen considering she is aging and it could be harder to land a new athlete.
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Set for life
She's set for life. I wonder if she's already spent those 18 years of checks.....
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It happens...
It is certainly possible that the lady in question deliberately got pregnant because she felt the relationship was drifting. It is also conceivable (no pun intended) that the gentlement in question drifted when he found out about the pregnancy.
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No, _we_ didn't
Didn't we all call K. Fed a total creep for doing that to Shar Jackson?
We didn't because 1) we have never heard of Shar Jackson and 2) we wouldn't know K. Fed if he walked up to us and said, "Hi, my name's K."
If there is anyone I care less about than lingerie models and football quarterbacks it is pop star wannabes, Shar Jackson and this currently pregnant woman.
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Assumptions
There is an underlying assumption here that the relationship was close to over when the pregnancy occurred. There is a possibility that the pregnancy ended the relationship. With so many men waiting until their 40s or later to become fathers, isn't it completely possible that, faced with the pregnancy, Mr. Brady decided he wasn't ready to be an engaged, committed father and moved on in a way that would communicate this fact very clearly to his ex? In public he can say how excited he is about fatherhood, but in reality his ex will likely be doing better than 90% of the parenting.
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of course she did it on purpose
It's the oldest one in the book. We women have a bad habit of doing that. She's thinking "Either Tom rushes back to me and asks me to marry him or, the worst thing that can happen is that, at 35, I get my genetically superiour baby plus 18 years of cash money". Why any professional athlete, musician or any guy who has some dough would have sex without a condom, I just don't know. It's like the Donald said, "Sex has cost me a lot of money".
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MMMMMMMM
If I had a lot of money I would enjoy going around knocking up beautiful woman and throwing money at them while i walk away. Look at men tht have a lot of money it's what they do.
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Stereotype
The insinuations will stop once the behavior becomes so rare that people have a hard time believing it still happens. As the victim of two (thankfully) fake pregnancies - one to try to get me to propose, the other to try to get back together with me - I can attest that this sort of thing happens more often than people realize.
It will be a great day when babies stop being used as panaceas and seven-pound annuities.
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"of course" she did it on purpose?
It's the oldest one in the book. We women have a bad habit of doing that.
And we men have a bad - and I would guess more frequent - habit of impregnating girls/women and disappearing on them. How about not saying "of course" she did it until you know what actually happend?
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RE: Have they ever heard of birth control?
Have you ever heard of hide-and-seek? Birth control only works is it is being used, and if it is in pill form it can be hidden away and not taken - without the consent or knowledge of the other partner. Think this never happens? Think again. Condoms FTW!
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Tom Brady
Gotta love the life of Tom Brady. How many guys wish they were him?
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Why
Does everyone assume Tom Brady is really the dad?
With this kind of money on the line, he'd be wise to do a DNA test after birth.
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race/gender
and if, say, Michael Vick were the quaterback/expectant father at issue in this story do you think it would really be reported like this? Chances are the suggestions about the mom would turn solely on the cash money and not at all on her alleged last ditch efforts to hold onto a relationship/man. Chances are the insinuations about the quarterback would . . . well I'm not even going to trace those out.
As for America's golden boy, Tom Brady, he's just one more bit of evidence that even in a blue state where they teach sex ed many men still don't wear a cap.