Cancel culture comes for everyone in publically visible positions and now, a now it’s come for Barstool Sports President Dave Portnoy. This time, it’s come in the form of a #MeToo type of accusation that Portnoy had sexually assaulted a woman he had gone on a date with. These accusations are denied by Portnoy. What’s more, he’s brought evidence that strongly suggests his innocence.
The author of the hit piece, Julia Black, promoted the article by saying it’s the hardest she’s ever worked on one before, taking a total of eight months to complete. This article has many stories and multiple interviews about Portnoy.
However, like many #MeToo accusations, there’s very little proof to the claims being thrown around about Portnoy, and much of the article is made up of already public stories of the Barstool founder’s exploits to try to lend believability to said claims.
Portnoy was allegedly flirting after one of his Instagram comments about pizza. Soon the conversations between the two moved to text where Portnoy allegedly sent her graphic pics and videos of former women he’d slept with. Portnoy and her began to talk about sex. She had informed Portnoy that she had a rape fantasy to which Portnoy allegedly responded that they were “going to get along so well.”
There she was able to agree to fly to her multi-million-dollar Nantucket home. Portnoy and her allegedly had sex the night before and Portnoy abused and humiliated them both.
From there, things escalated until, as Madison put it, “I felt like I was just a human sex doll.”
Madison sent a friend a text two days later. “It was so rough I felt like I was being raped he video taped me and spit in my mouth and choked me so hard I couldn’t breathe,” she wrote in messages viewed by Insider. “And it hurt and I was literally screaming in pain.”
She recalled crying and shouting, “Too much! Too much!” and “It hurts!”
“It was so painful,” Madison said. “I kept trying to get away and he was like, ‘You must stop running from me. Stop running away from me.’”
But Portnoy, she said, “just went harder.”
She wasn’t scheduled to go home until two days later and she spent the rest of her stay on Portnoy’s couch.
Another girl tells of a story where she too agreed to go to Portnoy’s home where they had rough sex, and didn’t like it, but was too scared to disappoint him. The report says that after he friends picked her up “she was clearly almost in shock” and didn’t talk the next day. This girl doesn’t describe what happened to her as an “assault” but said she did feel “preyed upon.”
According to reports, the girl also suffers from depression. She was admitted to hospital shortly after Portnoy’s suicide attempt. The girl’s mother contacted police and told them to go monitor his front door in order to see a young girl being dropped off every day. Insider said it had evidence.
So we have two girls who agreed to meet up with Portnoy for a sexual encounter, one of whom told him she liked rape fantasies, but outside of this, all we have are stories of Portnoy being Portnoy, a man who isn’t politically correct, likes sports, and loves sex.
If you were to look at this objectively, you’d already start to see the problems with the article. Firstly, it’s clearly written from the perspective of someone who doesn’t like Portnoy. The article portrays him as an unloved man who is known for being a misogynistic, womanizer and has built an army to defend him. They highlight various times he’s taken things too far (which even he admits) and combine them with non politically correct jokes he’s made in the past in order to frame him as a villain.
As I said earlier, it’s very #MeToo-esque.
But if we were to strip it down to nothing but the claims from the women, we still wouldn’t have a case for the cancellation of Portnoy. Both girls willingly went into Portnoy’s home for the express purpose of sex, one claimed to tell him to stop, but beforehand she had told him she liked an abusive fantasy and was apparently surprised by what she got when they allegedly carried it out.
The story seems like it is a simple hit on someone who tried to cancel the cancellation using thin reasoning. It also looks worse because it was not delivered in a timely manner.
This super important article meant to pull back the veil on a sexual abuser and man who preys on young women…is locked behind a paywall as of this writing. Apparently, if you want to see the stories of Portnoy’s past sexual abuses and lend your voice to the cacophony of those calling for Portnoy’s cancelation, you must pay the ticket price set by Insider.
It seems a little slimy.
But Portnoy isn’t staying quiet on this. He’s already out on Twitter with a two-part video explaining the real story behind it all.
Portnoy claimed that the sex between them and the girl was 100 per cent consensual. Also, he never requested to stop intercourse. After sex, Portnoy explains that as they hung out more it was clear that she and he were “oil and vinegar” and did not get along, which is why she slept on the couch. He says she was still interested in hooking up but he claimed it just wasn’t working.
Portnoy confirms that there was a second girl. However, he noted that she took a photo with him and posted it online. After her selfie became viral, she fell into depression and then went on to commit suicide. He also says that no authorities contacted him after the mother’s phone call. He also denies the mother’s claim about a revolving door of young women, saying he actually hates having people over at his house and likes going to bed early.
Portnoy even showed the text messages between him and the girl who clearly enjoyed her time with him and bragged about getting the word around that she’d slept with him.
Part 1/2 of my Response to the Business Insider Hit Piece. It’s been 8 months in the making. pic.twitter.com/gwrO07uIEE
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) November 4, 2021
It’s important to take accusations of sexual assault seriously, but what we seem to have here are two claims, one of which is demolished by contradictory evidence and the other which seems rather flimsy at best given there’s no evidence to her claims of telling him to stop. It’s kind of difficult, especially after the weaponized accusations of the #MeToo movement, to automatically embrace this narrative from a clearly biased reporter and one already disproved story.
What this likely is is an attack on an influential man who has said jokes that aren’t PC, appeared on shows that the woke crowd label as Hitlerian, and laughs about it when the outrage flies his way. He’s a prime target for cancelation, and while this is just the latest attempt, it is the largest one.
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