Shannon Sharpe, rape, and "discipline"

Thursday 7/31/25

Shannon Sharpe is a rapist, and all of these people--including lots of women--take to social media to remark that this is the result of a discipline problem.

A discipline problem.

Like someone who doesn't go to the gym as often as they should, or always has that extra piece of candy, or doesn't sit down and do their writing.

Raping someone isn't a discipline issue.

It's a rape issue.

What the fuck is wrong with everyone? Is there anyone out there with a brain at this point or any basic understanding of right and wrong or even just reality?

Anybody?

I see these posts, they get huge traction, thousands of likes, and hundreds of comments like "FACTS!!!!!"

Aliens, if you're reading: Blow us up. Maybe take like ten of us and deposit the group somewhere in a place that, personally speaking, I'd hope was similar to Cape Ann with art and nature where a meritocracy can be established. But do what's best with the rest.

I had a woman write me through the site with very serious and disturbing allegations about multiple people at The New Yorker, which didn't surprise me in the slightest.

They were along these lines.

I wonder if those were issues of discipline. I'm thinking not.

Is this going to be a thing people say now? It's discipline? Because I can see that happening.

You have to realize, "discipline" is like a so-called vocab word for people, because the average American doesn't know what it means. I don't mean that they don't understand the value and essential quality of it. I mean, if you ask them for a definition, they wouldn't be able to give you one.

I had mentioned, I believe, seeing one of those "word of the day" posts in my feed on Google and the word was "career," which also a vocab word now. You see it with all of the geniuses who didn't know what an em dash was--which is a slight step up (or down, if you prefer) from knowing what a period is--now going on and on about them like they had come out of the womb reciting chapter and verse from grammar guides.

This is how it works now. We have no clue what a word means, some phrase, but we adopt it as our (temporary) mantra-gospel, and everyone says the same dumb shit without any awareness of what they're saying.

Let's try this one out some more as if this was what the word discipline actually meant, shall we?

"I need to stay disciplined today so I don't rape anyone."

"Even though she was passed out, I was disciplined enough not to rape her."

"I don't know how I did it, but even though it was my vacation, I stayed disciplined and didn't rape any of those women."

"You have to admire his discipline. He hasn't raped in ten years."

Some would say Lorin Stein isn't that disciplined.

There's just so much evil now. So little to stop it. So few who are able to see it, because it's normalized and the single worst thing about our world at present, as I've said time and again, is that people can't tell anything.

They can't tell what things are. When that's the case, there is no separation, no standards, no expectations, no vetting, no accurate assessment of value. No understanding of right and wrong. Good and bad. A lack of discipline and rape.