Football and Rape
Nov. 10th, 2011 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeJesus, this Penn State story is unbelievable. What happened was terrible enough: how do you hear--HEAR--a child being raped and walk away, even if you do inform your boss later? And how, upon hearing of this, do you not move heaven and earth to get to the truth and do everything imaginable to protect the children going forward? I can't even imagine what these poor kids and their families are going through. Jesus Christ, this is sad.
But WTF is up with these students? Rioting? Are they fucking nuts? He's a FOOTBALL COACH. He fucked up and he and his boss are both paying the price. But he's just a football coach. Why are you more concerned with a football coach than for those poor kids--the ones he knew were being raped and did very little to help them?
Want to see some klassy Penn State rape apologists showing their asses on the internet?
Gothamist (all overwrought formatting in the original)
JacksBack72
Why does this 'horrific snowball' land on Paterno?! This man is and was an exemplary football coach for 45-years! He reported this terrible incident to the hierarchy at Penn- what else was he expected to do- become a one-man crusade against pedophilia?!?Paterno fired in disgrace?!? THAT is the true disgrace of PENN STATE! Yes- The University should do something. . . just not the WRONG thing!!
OKHNYC
He had a moral obligation once he saw that the University was covering up one of his coaches using his facilities to groom and rape little boys to notify the police. That you don't see this is stunning.
Michael
He had NO MORAL OBLIGATION to do anything more than he did. He is not the cops. He is not the GC of PSU. He is a coach! The school chose not to do anything. The WITNESS chose not to go to the cops outside of the campus cops. This was NOT paterno's duty, morally or legally.
JacksBack72
Coach Paterno DIDN'T SEE THIS INCIDENT. . . it was merely reported to him- and he passed this (uncorroborated) report on up the 'chain-of-command at Penn State which was/is the right thing to do! What does he know if it's true or not- and is being 'covered' up?!?! He's a football coach!
My friends, THIS is the rape culture, on full display. They deny a moral obligation to follow up accusations of CHILD RAPE. Why? because it interfered with their love of a fucking GAME. Like I've said before, people get all up in arms about predatory sexual behavior...until it involves one of their worthless heroes. Then they will find a way to denydenydeny and spin. Examples: Roman Polanski, Kobe Bryant, James Barbour, etc.
But WTF is up with these students? Rioting? Are they fucking nuts? He's a FOOTBALL COACH. He fucked up and he and his boss are both paying the price. But he's just a football coach. Why are you more concerned with a football coach than for those poor kids--the ones he knew were being raped and did very little to help them?
Want to see some klassy Penn State rape apologists showing their asses on the internet?
Gothamist (all overwrought formatting in the original)
JacksBack72
Why does this 'horrific snowball' land on Paterno?! This man is and was an exemplary football coach for 45-years! He reported this terrible incident to the hierarchy at Penn- what else was he expected to do- become a one-man crusade against pedophilia?!?Paterno fired in disgrace?!? THAT is the true disgrace of PENN STATE! Yes- The University should do something. . . just not the WRONG thing!!
OKHNYC
He had a moral obligation once he saw that the University was covering up one of his coaches using his facilities to groom and rape little boys to notify the police. That you don't see this is stunning.
Michael
He had NO MORAL OBLIGATION to do anything more than he did. He is not the cops. He is not the GC of PSU. He is a coach! The school chose not to do anything. The WITNESS chose not to go to the cops outside of the campus cops. This was NOT paterno's duty, morally or legally.
JacksBack72
Coach Paterno DIDN'T SEE THIS INCIDENT. . . it was merely reported to him- and he passed this (uncorroborated) report on up the 'chain-of-command at Penn State which was/is the right thing to do! What does he know if it's true or not- and is being 'covered' up?!?! He's a football coach!
My friends, THIS is the rape culture, on full display. They deny a moral obligation to follow up accusations of CHILD RAPE. Why? because it interfered with their love of a fucking GAME. Like I've said before, people get all up in arms about predatory sexual behavior...until it involves one of their worthless heroes. Then they will find a way to denydenydeny and spin. Examples: Roman Polanski, Kobe Bryant, James Barbour, etc.
