Many of these girls became victims of Nassar because they love gymnastics. It seems cruel to prevent any future girls from following that same love just because that love was used as a weapon against them. You can instead clean the house without destroying the house.

Is this just viral marketing for the new Wes Anderson movie?

People seem to forget why the NCAA’s sanctions against Penn State were ultimately reduced and overturned. It wasn’t the school that fought the NCAA. Penn State completely capitulated to the NCAA as soon as the independent investigation into the scandal was completed and released to the public (Michigan State appears…

I will never understand this mindset. Yes, the entire leadership structure needs to be replaced, but what does shutting down the entire program accomplish? It just harms the gymnasts, the primary victims. We should focus on punishing the individuals responsible, but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Ever time these things happen society just looks to name good guys or bad guys and then moves on. We never really think about the people involved that allowed this to happen. There were dozens of people who could have put a stop to this and didn’t. Most people will just write those individuals off as evil or…

Pedophiles who go after boys always seemed to be punished harsher and draw more outrage than pedophiles who pray on girls. Roy Moore is an obvious example. Do you think that election would have been that close if Moore was pursuing 14 year old boys? I am not sure if it that is more from sexism of not caring about…

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The breadth of this case blows the Sandusky case out of the water, both in terms of victims and the number of times those victims’ accusations were ignored. This deserves all the attention that the Sandusky got, but it isn’t getting it due to society’s ingrained sexism and homophobia. Apparently men assaulting boys…

I am not sure there is clearer evidence that we live in a sexist society than the relative lack of coverage this is receiving. The scope of this case is just insane. The number of victims and times those victims were actively ignored by people who were supposed to care for them is inconceivable. The Sandusky case…