“Many people...” They were the incestuous ivory tower echo chamber monsters that all think they can go home now and forget about this. I hope the next few years for them are filled with anxious lawyer meetings and swords of Damocles hanging over their heads until they are finally made paupers, disgraced, and…

Clearly you are attempting to be humerus in your description of The President of the United States.

For real, he makes it sound like he and the rest of the MSU staff are just innocent victims in all this as well. Nassar didn’t act alone, his actions were intentionally ignored and possibly covered up (looking more likely) by MSU staff. This is an evil that was allowed to occur and was fostered by MSU itself.

Well luckily he still has his Bad Santa residuals to fall back on.

Next step: Whatever Dean oversaw that medical center. Then the board of trustees, except for the one dude who got in front early. Then anyone in the counseling department who brushed even one of these women off. Then the head of the counseling department.

Then the asshole in that stupid Spartan costume. Just because.

“many people told me that I should not do this,”

10,000 words, 6 periods.

The subtext is obvious but it’s worth spelling out that “family-friendly” here is a dogwhistle for “you won’t have to explain to your kids that a professional athlete is upset that unarmed black people are getting murdered by police, in the very unlikely event they even noticed the brief protest to begin with”. Christ.

“Family Friendly” is a dog whistle, right? Cause it sure feels like a dog whistle.

You really ought to stick with the meals that are cooked low and slow. The Seattle Stew is really good.

Oh please. Lots of people spell hors d’oeuvres wrong.

This is a wonderful takeaway and an important one! Thanks for your comment.

This is the power of survivors. I hope the efficacy coming forward and voicing wrongs never fades from this point on.

Doesn’t seem fair. Some of those board members probably haven’t even gotten the chance to be grossly negligent of monstrous crimes yet.

“but as a father of four amazing daughters, I can tell you they’re only that way *because* we spanked them.”

How? Did you leave one out of the spankings so you’d have a control group? 

I’m 32 and helping coach high school baseball now, and I worked with 7 and 8 year olds before that. The word “rot” to describe the culture is spot on. Honestly, just socialize the child and let them be, well a child.

To claim that this makes sense because the mere idea of defense is too important is to claim that a poor defender who actively hurt his team in the field is inherently more valuable than any equivalent player who helped his team by not having the chance to doing so.

“As tragedies are politicized, blame is inevitable”...oh go straight to hell, please. Calling this “politicized” is beyond disgusting.

I’m sad to say it’s not much better for boys and girls in baseball, football or soccer. Youth sports have becoming a horrifying culture of competition and control. It’s poison, and it drove both of my athletically talented nephews out of sports they loved.

One of my happiest days was when my daughter decided she didn’t want to do dance or gymnastics after trying them. She wanted to do golf, hockey, softball and swimming. This is a kid I can work with.