But... but... she’s not even pretty! Am I the only person who doesn’t find Ashley Wagner attractive? What am I missing here. Nagasu is to my eyes a much more attractive woman. Ashley’s just white.

I know. He and Tara and their sparkle-fabulosity (both outfits and commentary) are also my favorite part of the Olympics so far. NBC still not getting that they are going to need a tape delay if they don’t want joyful profanity making it onto the broadcast during X-games and X-games adjacent sports is my second…

Meh, there were like 4 or 5 just in Tucson when I lived there about 10 years ago. Arizona is not Waffle House free. They definitely seemed more prevalent in AZ than they are in the next two states I lived in (IL and MD). I think fight at the Waffle House between AZ and FL seems reasonable. Where there is meth, there…

This is completely off topic but I love your handle. Some of my fondest childhood memories involve watching Mathnet while eating fruit roll ups.

Preach. As mentioned ad nauseam, I used to be a child sex abuse investigator. The number of times I went through a trial in which the male judge gave the victim a cutoff as far as how long they had to make their statement during sentencing was infuriating. Let them speak. One of the girls on my cases had been raped…

This is a good point. Appointing her to a role that has her advising on designing the sort of systems that build protections for the athletes into the bigger system would be powerful. She KNOWS. These women know where the system failed them and they know what might have changed that. That would be a powerful…

Late replying to this, but I used to work in this field and so many times this is how people fly under the radar/get people to believe them instead of the victims/get found not guilty by juries. People *want* these guys to be scary looking guys in trench coats conspicuously offering candy to kids to get in their…

The Karolyis are the worst. Nassar preyed on the food restriction the Karolyis imposed on the gymnasts to groom his victims. He was able to use candy as lure because the Karolyis created a system in which that was very effective. It’s not like people haven’t known for decades that Bela is a nightmare. Hell, the food…

As Moff said, they have 2 years to let everyone forget about or stop caring about it. I don’t think it gets significant airtime unless one of the athletes competing uses their interviews as a platform to talk about it (which is completely their right). The only other option would be some gross Katie Couric interview…

No. That’s the problem. The only good solution would be the Kim family deciding to stop being dynastic despots and honestly there would be a lot of problems with that, such a mass diaspora to South Korea and China that would set off a new set of issues (though arguably those issues would be less problematic than…

And this, most definitely, is not all of the victims. 125 is probably a pretty small fraction of the total victims. He had unfettered access to victims for 20+ hours a week for decades. It is staggering to think of how much destruction and sadness one person can leave in their wake.

Any group of 20 people almost certainly does have a victim of a sex crime in it, however those group photos are not typically attached to an article about substantiated child abuse against every person in the picture. Journalists routinely leave out specific identifiers (names, faces) of living child abuse victims and…

Except the sister who left said he exposed himself to her, which would have been legally problematic if she was 15 and under the age of consent in that state. Even if the 16 year old friend consented to sex with the guy later, the 15 year old is still a problem. So that still would be 2 more women, no? The 15 year old…

I know! Few things feel better than when a sneeze has been building up and you finally let it fly. It’s a second of sublime release. Maybe he had some compelling reason to try to stifle it? He was at a performance or covertly spying on someone or something?

The NY Post ran pics of the family, which seems really dodgy to me since it seems at least plausible that there could be a victim of a sex crime in that sibling group given the 2 year old baby. At any rate, it is really disturbing. The picture can’t be very old; the baby is in the picture. Not a one of them looks over…

Second the rec to talk to a local CAC if you have one. But it is never too young to start the conversation. If they are verbal, it’s time for at least the basics - correct terms for body parts and a specific directive about adults touching them. We overthink this as adults. It is a weird uncomfortable conversation…

I used to work as a child sex crimes investigator and I really really wish we would avoid the good touch/bad touch language. I know it is almost built into the culture at this point and it is well-intentioned, but it is a problem. I can’t tell you how many times a perpetrator used a child’s physical response to touch…

Wow. This is... possibly the worst poster ever. Chen looks like he’s about to faceplant because they amputated his legs, Zhou looks like he is in some Fosse dance number, and Rippon looks like a really uncoordinated dancing white guy. Yikes. I feel like they really had to try to make it this uninspiring.

Bradie Tennell was literally going for Disney Ice Princess. Her music was from Cinderella. There were some ugly costumes, but I loved Karen Chen’s Carmen looking thing and I thought Mirai’s fit her Miss Saigon homage really well.

Exactly! And watching Wagner is like watching a cardboard cutout skate. She has never had any sort of feel for the music and she shouldn’t have gotten the pick 4 years ago. If they pick her again to go and skate another lackluster program at the Olympics... grrr. You got your chance 4 years ago, Ashley, and you did…