I’m in WA and our senators are pretty solid too. I keep calling Cantwell & Murray to urge them to do shit about stuff they’ve already pledged to do. I don’t think they’ve voted for any cabinet picks - maybe Haley? Plus Jayapal is my Congresswoman and she is not having this Turmp shit. I don’t know how many times I can…

One of my mom’s friends called our reps up for days to get a meeting. She told them she was calling the newspaper. She talked to a reporter and the reporter emailed our reps. Within hours a townhall was scheduled. She went to that meeting and told them off for gerrymandering districts in our area. In Wisconsin, it was…

As a gay man (late twenties), this creeps me out but doesn’t surprise me.

This interview shows the mindset victims of child sexual abuse can sometimes get into, and why it is so underreported. He accepts moral responsibility because he was a horny fourteen-year-old, as though he were manipulating the adult, without realizing that his abuser recognized that fact and used it to manipulate him…

We can teach kids to recognize things that really are issues

Why is it rarer to see women coaches?

Except that SO MANY FUCKING TIMES men who for some reason want to coach, mentor, teach, just be around underage girls turn out to be abusers. Just SUCH a coincidence.

I would have a serious concern about any dude who expresses that he for some mystery reason wants to specifically work with underage girls. Men have made their damn beds, now they can lie in them and tolerate having babysitters when they are around girls.

I agree with you, but there must be awareness that in certain fields, such as children’s sports, there is a high risk of abuse. In Canada the number of young boys’ and teens’ male hockey coaches sexually abusing them is staggering. The fact that in girls’ gymnastics there is a disproportionately high number of male…

Reminds me of the beloved Late, Great St. Joe Paterno. He sure was one heck of a guy! He just did so much for those kids and that program...

I would hope that most men (and women) who go into coaching and sports medicine do so for a love of their field and because they love watching young athletes blossom. They want to see the kids excel.

I disagree with you, but I understand where you are coming from.

i mean #notalldoctors but predators look for a way to be in contact with their prey.

You’re saying institutional coercion, fear, and excessive respect of authority are not tied to misogyny and patriarchy?

You have a point though. It’s the same reason school gym teachers have become a running joke...because there’s truth to it. Not always of course. Some people are just nice and into sports. But guess who got taken to court at my all-girls school for having (very) inappropriate relationships with underage girls? Yup…

I can’t help but be like “You don’t SAY. A man who made his career in a field where he’d have lots of access to the bodies of underdeveloped little girls had untoward motivations?”

Forcing children to train at such an intense level for years on end seems like the perfect recipe for a fucked up adult. Add in adults calling them fat and molesting them and I’m seriously questioning why we are doing this to children? Who fucking cares?

oh man, the overt ass grab in the background behind him is....bordering on presidential.

So, I’m starting a cruise line, and it’s going to be epic guys.