Ray Rice and media portrayals of gender and violence?

There's all kinds of details you can cite of course, who will all have some influence, and be a contributing, or detracting factor.

Fundamentally in a sports like Football, there's 2 things.

1. You can literally die, if you don't hit others all-out on the gridiron, so Ray Rice is conditioned, he's trained to never hold back.

2. Almost every football player has a lot of concussions, and where we still don't have enough technology to prove it, the indicators of brain-research show that people with his job, have a SERIOUSLY reduced brain-capacity.

Combine the 2, the conditioning to 'hit hard, or get hurt', and the damage compromizing the ability to maintain control, and perspective, and you get a pattern like that of the NFL of violence, crime, substance-abuse, and so on.

The apologist mindset of course raises the risks, but I'm quite sure that even without any other influence, those 2 influences, will create a situation where there's a high risk of physical abuse.

You might be interested in a video called "Tough Guise" that talks about this exact idea.

http://www.jacksonkatz.com/video2.html

Personally, I think that it is pretty pathetic for someone who works in a profession that involves regular violent interactions with others of equal size and strength to physically assault someone much smaller and weaker during their free time.

It is also due to women putting more value on a mans wallet than on his character.

Do your own homework, softie.