Beating the rap on beating

 Trevor Bauer is no longer a Los Angeles Dodger, at least for now. But he's still adept at dodging stuff.

He's still got that professional athlete mojo that allows him to duck responsibility for heinous behavior, with the help of sympathetic gavel-bangers and assorted feats of lawyerdom. A little of both combined yesterday to get him sprung from a restraining order filed by the latest young woman he's beaten the crap out of during "rough sex."

The gavel-banger in this case is Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman of the Los Angeles Superior Court, and those must be hella seats she has in Dodger Stadium. In dissolving the restraining order against Bauer, she essentially ruled the young woman in question invited the "rough sex" to which Bauer subjected her, and therefore anything that happened during said "rough sex" was all on her.

Including getting beaten into unconsciousness, which Bauer apparently likes to do during sex, and which he reportedly did to this woman.

Oh, he is one sick puppy, our Trevor. Guy oughta be in a cage. Doubt you'll see him gracing any Wheaties' boxes in the near future.

Doubt, too, that the young woman in question departed the courtroom feeling much different than so many women feel when they take on professional athlete mojo. Particularly in the face of such blatant judicial slut-shaming.

I mean, what else do you call it when the judge looks at you and decides you got what was coming to you? Even if what you got landed you in the hospital with injuries so severe veteran personnel said they'd never seen anything quite like it?

It make you wonder how far Bauer would have had to go with his "rough sex" before Gould-Saltman would have held him accountable for his actions. If he'd have beaten her to death, would he then bear some responsibility? Or would the fact she asked him to be rough with her in texts allow him to skate?

That's probably a bit over the top. But tell me that isn't the logical extension of Gould-Saltman's ruling.

Bottom line here is She Asked For It has rarely had a more stark example. And Trevor Bauer is now free to continue doing what he does -- which includes threats and online harassment of women who've dared to criticize him on social media. 

Wonder  how bad that harassment might get for a woman who dared to challenge him court?

Love to hear the good judge's thoughts on that.