Live Feed of Urban Meyer Decision
The bar video episode plays out a sadly familiar story when it comes to Urban Meyer:
- Meyers makes a bad decision as part of a situation that involves a woman
- Meyer apologizes
- Meyer faces very minimal repercussions from his employer
- The woman at the center of the situation and the women around Meyer face very serious repercussions in their personal and professional lives.
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The only major difference this time is that Meyer's employer is the Jacksonville Jaguars and the woman in this particular case had direct contact with Meyer for only a few minutes.
Still the formula and result stay the same.
Urban Meyer is just the latest high profile man in our society that repeatedly makes bad decisions when women are involved and unfortunately we respond to the situation in the same tired way.
All parties are punished in some fashion whether it be professional, personal, etc. but the magnitude of punishment is vastly different.
The women receive much harsher punishment than the high profile man. Even if there looks to be some amount of culpability on each side we still come to the conclusion that the women should receive more punishment, or retribution, than the man.
In fact this time the imbalance of punishment went way beyond just the woman and Meyer in the bar video but also spilled over to Meyer's own family.
Once again we see that Urban Meyer's bad decisions hurt the women around him much more than him.
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- The woman in the bar video continues to face brutal misogynist messages from people all around the country and is now facing an investigation of the incident in the video by her employer with termination as a potential result.
- Meyer's wife deleted some of her social media accounts because of the massive amounts of misogynist messages she received after the bar video went viral.
- Urban Meyer only ended up issuing apologies to the public, his employer, and his players while keeping his job and facing no investigation from his employer.
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He has also faced even more scrutiny on social media but much of it has been jokes about the incident that oftentimes do more harm to the woman in the video than Meyer's himself.
How are these punishments proportional at all?
The answer is that they aren't even close.
At the very least the Jacksonville Jaguars, and/or the NFL, should open up an investigation into this incident like Ohio State University did with the Zach Smith episode right before Urban Meyer retired from Ohio State or when the NFL investigated the case where Jameis Winston sexually assaulted a female Uber driver in Arizona.
If the woman in the video does get fired from her job that should be the same outcome for Urban Meyer.
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As commissioner of the NFL Roger Goodell hasn't always had the best record of reigning in and punishing players and coaches who have committed crimes or other misconducts but Urban Meyer and the Jacksonville Jaguars franchise by refusing to fully address the situation have left Goodell and the rest of the League in a situation where they must step up and examine this incident more closely.
If the NFL did this then the punishments would be at least somewhat closer and justified.
In the end all this comes down to a very basic question: why is Urban Meyer still employed?
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In the past the answer has been that he is good at his job which is problematic enough as we have recently seen with the R. Kelly convictions, but this time Urban Meyer isn't doing so well in his new job according to the record books and continual reporting within the Jacksonville Jaguars organization.
In so many ways Urban Meyer is trending in the wrong direction and repeatedly shows that he does not fit into football as an industry anymore.
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Meyer is growing to be more of a liability than asset for any football team at any level. The rules in and around football, and other sports, have changed and are changing to reflect a much more equal and respectful industry and clearly Urban Meyer has either not realized that or more likely has refused to conform to it.
While the atmosphere in and around sports is by no means perfect yet it no longer has a place for people like Urban Meyer and it is past time that football parts ways with Urban Meyer.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars, and football itself, must wake up to this reality very soon if it wants to maintain its status within our society.
Genessa Eddy is a philosopher, feminist, and gender theorist affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Source: https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2021/10/13/should-jacksonville-jaguars-urban-meyer-fired-after-bar-video/8427832002/
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