Amazing how these two allegations and lawsuits appear out of nowhere, and supposedly two others without lawsuits, yet. One a year ago, the other back in August. All this time has passed and now lawsuits are filed.
SMH
I'm not going to be hyper-critical here. I'm just going to point out that, no, not every bad situation in life leads a person to march into a police station 5 minutes later to file a report or to find an attorney to file a civil suit within 5 days.
Bad stuff happens. Sometimes people are traumatized and it takes some time for them to process what happened. They may also gain confidence and courage if they find out that there are others who have had a similar experience and are taking action as well.
That is NOT to say that's what is happening here. Only to warn about generalizing about how people process a bad experience and/or move on to legal action.
Lots of guys post on this board who are quick to say "if something like this happened to me or one of my family" and then go on to list a whole bunch of actions that they are certain they would take, and all within the span of 48 hours. Real life is often quite different, though.
I'm not ready to form my own conclusions yet, but the number of people reporting similar occurrences...is not good...and rarely bodes well. Not specifically related to Deshaun Watson, but there are way too many dudes who watch way too much PornHub and are way too much under the mistaken impression that these massages turn into *** far more frequently than they do.
Some reports have indicated that Watson may have texted one of the women with some sort of apology. From an evidentiary and/or PR standpoint, if that's true, it won't look good for him. Another person was flown in from Atlanta. Again...looks...strange...it would be one thing if this was a longtime personal masseuse of his, but otherwise...it might look like a guy with too much money who is trying too hard.
What I would like to hear (but have not yet heard) is some sort of rationale from Watson as to how he evaluated the masseuse qualifications of these women. Until then, it just looks like he was going for...variety...
Let's let this play out. He may be a great player and a basic good guy off the field, but these reports are not exactly headed into "exoneration" territory yet.