If you’re wondering what kind of impact this had on her career you’re probably just finding out about this now, and this information came out last year. Here’s Kim Pentico on the issue:

“I’m not comfortable with her behavior,” said Kim Pentico of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. “What I am absolutely not willing to say is she’s committed domestic violence without speaking with him and learning more about that relationship.”



“I fully accept my bias,” Pentico said. “A well-trained, well-toned, football player cold-cocked his fiancée (edit: referencing Ray Rice) and dragged her out of an elevator without any emotion. It was an assault. It was a violent, blood-curdling assault. If that was my daughter, I would lose my mind.

“I own that there’s a double standard here,” Pentico continued. “Until the tables turn in our society, it is going to be that way.

“Pentico explained, “a woman’s fear of a man is different from a man’s fear of a woman.” And that is true in almost all cases. Men don’t fear being sexually assaulted, or attacked as they walk down the street at night, or drugged in a bar. Physical violence and sexual violence are closely linked for women, and not nearly as much for men.

In the situation described in Rousey’s book, it’s the photos that made her so incensed. So even in this case, there’s a sexual power that the man wields over the woman – or at least the fear of that kind of power. No, there is no strict self-defense, but there is a defense of her reputation, even though we never learn why the photos were taken. Rousey is standing up for herself, arguably.

