I’ll agree with that. She shouldn’t have said it out loud, even though I completely understand the instinct, and I sympathize with what drove even such a consummate professional to that point. I also admire the fact that even in that moment, she avoided saying directly that she wishes direct harm upon him in a…

Are you a robot? Because the instinctive recoil and snap back of anger to a monster is probably one of the most human instincts we all share, no matter what. The fact that some of those reactions might cross a line of what is perfectly genteel or appropriate is inevitable, given the scale and grotesquerie of this…

She didn’t wish it on him, though. She acknowledges it as cruel and unusual punishment, points out that it would be inflicting on him what he inflicted on them, and points out that it would be unconstitutional to sentence anyone to that punishment; but that if it weren’t, she might allow that kind of retribution in…

No one deserves to be raped.
But I think it’s a very human instinct to wish that these monsters could feel, if only for a few moments, the agony they inflicted on others, so they could actually experience the harm they had done from the other side.

That still doesn’t make it right, and doesn’t make it okay to wish that…

Serious question: How many of these people write to you thinking they’re writing to ESPN?

Good. Now look inward, USOC, and give the boot to anyone who was active during the times when you dismissed and ignored the complaints of athletes that were brought to YOU.

Fucking preach.

So Lou Anna didn’t resign under pressure, she’s running away from her total failure to lead the school in any kind of competent way besides (apparently) fundraising, is what you’re saying? And she was the chair of the Executive committee in the NCAA tasked with improving the safety of students after Penn State?

Are you…

Judges are supposed to judge you. IT’S RIGHT THERE IN THEIR TITLE.

At the very least, that’s a professional failure so scorching she should be resigning in shame for that alone.

Golly gee whiz, Lou Anna, more and more negative attention was maybe coming down on you and MSU because you’d been harboring a pedophile—despite repeated reports—for twenty years. And the past year has been difficult for you? My lack of sympathy can be seen from SPACE. I hope you donate your golden parachute to the…

Guess “this Nassar thing” was finally important enough to merit some attention from the MSU higher-ups.

She didn’t appear to be running, since she was still working for US Gymnastics until January 22, well after the trial and sentencing began. It looks more like the organization is trying to make it all go away than like the person is, to me.

By ‘manipulated,’ I mean that he was clearly practiced at molesting girls while their actual parents were in the room, so the fact that she was present may not have meant that she was aware of what was happening. If she was aware and did nothing, then hell yes, complicit all the way, as an adult.

It bothers me that all these possibly-complicit motherfuckers are just slipping quietly away under cover of darkness, no accounting, no notification, like nothing ever happened. IS she guilty of anything but being manipulated? I don’t know. But making her disappear silently looks awful for the organization, no matter…

Aly Raisman for President.

From context, maybe they were SUPPOSED to be water buffalo, though.

At least that was a sincere and unequivocal apology. It wasn’t a cover your ass, fake-explanation, it-wasn’t-really-our-fault, mealy mouthed thing. Far too little, far too late, sure, but they made a real and straightforward apology that sounds real and true. It’s more than MSU has done. Or USAG.

Yes. I second his calm and reasoned conclusion. It’s really the only one any thinking person can come to.

“to date, Michigan state has sent no information to the NCAA regarding Nassar’s actions...”

Ohhhh shit.