So I was looking up some news items and I came across an article in the San Diego Union about an arrest of a Charger for domestic battery. The player was linebacker Shawne Merriman. I didn’t think too much of it, other than another story of an athlete gone bad, but when I read further down the article I saw the woman he attacked was his girlfriend, and this is where things get interesting, MTV and internet ‘celebrity’ Tila Nguyen, better known as Tila Tequila.

Tila signed a citizen’s arrest warrant, charging him with false imprisonment and battery. She also claimed to be his girlfriend in the report.

The article was rather short, being the incident happened in the early morning and barely made the print edition of the paper. What struck me was the information that was tracked by the paper leading to the incident. They tracked information from her Twitter account to see what her mood and movements were. The paper mentioned that as of Sunday there were no tweets nor could they reach either party for comment.

I went on Twitter and sure enough, there’s already a channel for Merriman. I checked it out and there were a lot of people just mentioning he was arrested, but the sickening thing I saw was how many people, in a not too subtle way, blamed her for it. I shouldn’t say really they blamed her, but they mention they can’t believe he was dating her, using some derogatory terms for Tila. One main theme has been people saying they aren’t sure what they are more surprised about; that he was arrested for attacking Tila or that he was dating Tila.

That’s a pretty messed up thing to say. Here’s what I find equally shocking. It has been about 5 minutes since I went on Twitter to the Merriman area. In five minutes there have been over 200 comments made on the subject and the comments are mostly about how people are either shocked about the attack or they’re shocked he was dating Tila.

I just took another five minutes to look through some of the tweets left by people on the Merriman area. It’s quite sad to read because these folks are giving no sympathy to the victim of this. I have to admit I’m not a fan of Tila Tequila. My first instinct when I started writing this article was to say I felt sorry for what happened to her, even if I didn’t like her, and I figured there would be a wealth of support from people. Now, her tweet page is locked and since I didn’t care for her, I’m not signed up as one of her friends so I don’t have any messages from there.

This is how silly things are; I just got a call and was away for 10 minutes. When I got back to the Merriman page 627 tweets were in! The messages are still about half being just links about the story and about a fourth condemning the man for dating Tila. I’m sure there are some people with some compassion for the woman but its’ tough to find with the amount of messages coming in. I’ve seen more messages sad that another athlete is in a domestic violence issue, but again it’s more sympathy for the athlete than the woman.

It’s something else to turn my stomach on people. You may not like the woman but there’s no excuse for hitting a woman. You have to look at the simple numbers in this case; she’s a lightweight woman, he’s a pro athlete. He’s a linebacker at 6 foot 4 inches and 272 pounds while Tila is barely 5 feet and maybe 100 pounds if she’s soaking wet. She gets hit by him and no one is appalled? That’s what disgusts me.

 

 

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