USA Gymnastics would be well served to bring her into the organization, not just as some PR stunt but as an athlete advocate or ombudsman. Her strength, her love of the sport and her obvious desire to rectify this awful situation would certainly be an asset.

Right...Because the authorities are so quick to investigate these types of cases.

Yeah, I was thinking on the drive home today about how men have built an entire existence off of cluelessness / pretending they don’t know things. If they just ACT like they don’t KNOW they’re making her uncomfortable, or they don’t KNOW HOW to grocery shop, and then if they take it one step further and act CONFUSED…

They didn’t lie or changed the results.

Trash men get to go in the trash can. They can try to come back and face the backlash and see how it feels to be on the receiving end of blackballing for once. How do you restore the lost careers of harassment victims should be the question.

This article reminded me of Dave Chappelle’s recent comedy special where he went off on a MeToo tangent. He basically said that while he sided with the women and wished them success, he felt that if a woman’s dreams were threatened by this misogyny, they had a “brittle spirit.” I pondered that one and I wondered how…

The commission was dissolved just after a judge ordered that commission members disclose correspondence that wasn’t shared with the Democratic members of the commission. Hmm, that couldn’t possibly mean that the Republican members of the commission were trying to stonewall Democratic involvement in the commission?

Basically the argument boils down to, “Toughen Up! Having your boss whip out his penis in front of you shouldn’t derail you!” Which is itself ridiculous. But it also ignores the fact that even if women act “tough” and refuse to have sex or watch their disgusting boss masturbate, they get blacklisted and their careers…

No matter how many women say it no matter how loudly or how many times, many men aren’t listening until a man says it. Then they ask the ladies why they waited so long to speak up.

Have you ever been a child in a congregation that has a youth program? The Youth Minister/Pastor is somewhere between your teacher and your counselor. They talk to your parents about how you are performing in the program, make suggestions for extra studies, make decisions that affect your (and your family’s by…

Older women are just as likely to be sexually assaulted. Now, rich women with power not so much, but sexual assault has little to do with sex and older women are far from immune. Saying that they are beyond their “assaultable years” is actually a little offensive.

You have a point, but that’s no excuse for being shitty to younger women. I’m pushing 70, and always had a big mouth about harassment, as far back as the late 60's. I’m sure some women felt they needed to shut up, but a lot of us refused to do that. (Some of us can thank our own mothers, who spoke out about the same…

So, by calling out people in power for their abuses of that power, we risk taking away agency from women.

Ugh. Look I’m all for people admitting what they’ve done and asking for forgiveness, but that’s not what’s happening here. He totally sugar coated it to his congregation (so of course they’re gonna applaud) and didn’t go into the gross details of manipulation and sexual assault of a minor. And he wouldn’t be doing it…

I was a latchkey kid who was an easy target for the junior high art teacher. He was inappropriate to me and I had reconciled I would likely be molested by him. Looking back, he groomed me for a long time. I told a guidance counselor, under sworn secrecy, what was happening. The counselor didn’t keep it a secret, and I…

“... hurt by the ripple effect of the consequences of that sin.”

Mine too! Also, what is it with this competitive cheerleadering bullshit? Most of the time the ‘coaches’ are barely out of high school themselves with no training. That shit is dangerous. Have them at least join a real gymnastics team.

This. I coached little girls and listened to other coaches tell them to only eat light cream cheese. Fuck that. I told them to eat lightly before the performance (I didn’t want barfing), but after that it was open season on bagels. Ten year olds don’t need that kind of complex.

Fucking thank you. I danced for a serious company as I got older and still, it was dance pants, sports bras and tank tops. AND NO BOOTY SHAKING. I’m sorry, this really upsets me. Exposing children to sexual situations at a young age makes them more likely to be abused.

From your mouth to all parent’s ears. My dad once made a comment about my weight when I was doing high kicks for my tap class - I said I wanted to be a Rockette (I later decided I wanted to be Cyd Charisse, still do...) and he said I needed to lose about 20 lbs. I was ten. I was already self conscious but that brought…