Gutless Dress-Wearing Sissy Jonathan Martin, Former N.F.L. Player, Says He Attempted Suicide

[Wuss Report]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/sports/football/jonathan-
martin-former-nfl-player-says-he-attempted-suicide.html

Jonathan Martin, the retired football player who left the Miami
Dolphins in 2013 after accusing teammates of bullying, said
Wednesday that he had attempted suicide “on multiple occasions”
because of long-simmering identity struggles and the stresses of
the N.F.L.

In a lengthy post on his Facebook page that was shared to
Twitter on Wednesday, the former offensive lineman detailed the
mental difficulties that he hoped his on-field accomplishments
would help ease. They did not, and the locker room was one of
many environments in which he said he felt like an outsider.

“Your job leads you to attempt to kill yourself on multiple
occasions,” he wrote, apparently referring to himself. “Your
self-perceived social inadequacy dominates your every waking
moment and thought. You’re petrified of going to work. You
either sleep 12, 14, 16 hours a day when you can, or not at all.
You drink too much, smoke weed constantly, have trouble focusing
on your job, playing the sport that you grew up obsessed with.”

Martin has made few public statements since the N.F.L. was
roiled by the bullying scandal in 2013. A report by Ted Wells
found the clubhouse harassment “humiliated Martin and
contributed to his mental health issues.” Other Dolphins players
have denied their part in bullying.

Unable to fit in, Martin said he eventually overcompensated by
creating a false persona as a “typical football player.”

“You’re one of just a handful of minorities in elite private
schools,” he wrote of his childhood in the Facebook post. “You
learn to tone down your size and blackness by becoming shy,
introverted, friendly, so you won’t scare the little rich white
kids or their parents. Neither black nor white people accept you
because they don’t understand you. It takes away your self-
confidence, your self-worth, your sanity.

“You’ve been told you’re not black enough your entire life,” he
continued. “It nearly destroys you, many times, not fitting in.
Your talent and accomplishments on the field never seem to be
able to overcome the demons that you carry with you from your
middle school and high school experience.”

Martin, the son of two Harvard graduates, went to high school at
the prestigious Harvard-Westlake school, which said in 2014 that
its student body was 43 percent nonwhite. He went to college at
Stanford, which reports that 7.5 percent of its students are
black and 57.2 percent are nonwhite or unknown.

There you have it, proof that liberalism breeds pansies.