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When harmless fun crosses the line into hazing
Orange County Register ^ | October 10, 2014 | Todd Harmonson

Posted on 10/10/2014 1:41:12 PM PDT by EveningStar

... The stomach-churning details emerging from the investigation into the football program at Sayreville War Memorial High in Parlin, N.J., nearly are matched by the nauseating reaction from parents appalled by the wise decision to cancel the school's football season...

But while the Sayreville scandal is the one we're hearing about today, it sadly is only the latest in a seemingly ceaseless line of cases across the nation.

"I believe hazing is getting worse and it is becoming more violent and more sexualized," said Susan Lipkins, a psychologist in New York and the author of "Preventing Hazing: How Parents, Teachers and Coaches Can Stop the Violence, Harassment and Humiliation." ...

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bullying; football; hazing; rape; sayreville; sexualassault
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1 posted on 10/10/2014 1:41:12 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Penetration is the absolute red line. But overall hazing is stupid.


2 posted on 10/10/2014 1:44:26 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: EveningStar

If your buddies want to do things to men’s butts, then get new friends.

It is a little odd how much of hazing involves the male anus.


3 posted on 10/10/2014 1:49:15 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: EveningStar

If the thought of a behavior being revealed to your family, friends and the general public is embarrassing to you, then that’s what’s left of your conscience talking.

Now, apply that to sticking your finger into the anus of a 14 year old football player for anyone other than a medical professional with a specific reason to do so in a medical setting.

You know the answer and they did, too.


4 posted on 10/10/2014 1:50:28 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Vermont Lt

Be interesting to know what that woman’s reaction would have been had her son been the one penetrated.


5 posted on 10/10/2014 1:51:07 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: EveningStar; All

Does anyone know how long this had been going on?


6 posted on 10/10/2014 1:54:33 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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To: EveningStar

Raise ‘em to believe that Deviance isn’t Deviance and this is what you get. It’ll get worse before it ever gets better...


7 posted on 10/10/2014 1:54:57 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: EveningStar

There were some punks at high school near me that did that kind of sick hazing. It was a baseball team ritual. They used a broomstick. The victim could have died from it. The punks were all prosecuted on felony rape charges.


8 posted on 10/10/2014 1:55:46 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Vermont Lt
We are having our own hazing issues here in Vermont too.
9 posted on 10/10/2014 1:56:27 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: EveningStar

Violence is a part of life, and like everything else, has appropriate applications that must be learned and practiced.

Liberals have removed appropriate violence from the curriculum and replaced it with draconian shaming and punishment.

As a result, young people do not learn appropriate violence. Instead they learn what is done to them by their teachers and parents - punishment designed literally to break someone’s spirit and force them into psychological slavery.

So that’s what they do to each other.


10 posted on 10/10/2014 1:56:43 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: TalBlack

There’s some truth in that. I agree with the focus of your comments.


11 posted on 10/10/2014 1:57:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: EveningStar

Lets see how the parents would react if they were on the receiving end....


12 posted on 10/10/2014 1:58:22 PM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: EveningStar

Cross between Latent Homosexuals and Sadists.


13 posted on 10/10/2014 1:58:56 PM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but culture that is embraced that degrades.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Why am I not surprised?
NY native.


14 posted on 10/10/2014 2:00:18 PM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but culture that is embraced that degrades.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I mentioned the other day that we had very mild “hazing” stuff when I was in high school. It HAD been going on for years. But it was tame compared to this stuff. Had anyone tried to hold someone down and penetrate them, the rest of the team would have killed the kid. And then ostracized them.


15 posted on 10/10/2014 2:06:59 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: EveningStar

The only example of hazing I ever recall encountering (in college, here in Texas) was some frat-boy having to walk down the main drag, dressed in a big diaper and baby-bonnet, pushing a baby-carriage down the sidewalk in front of everyone. He was SO embarrassed. But everybody grinned, knowing exactly what was going on.

This stuff here? Perversion and faggotry. The same kind of sick garbarge the culture has been pushing. It’s been ‘normalized.’ America-2014 makes me want to vomit.


16 posted on 10/10/2014 2:08:24 PM PDT by greene66
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To: EveningStar

It is as if each Senior Class of asses must out do the class that hazed them.


17 posted on 10/10/2014 2:08:58 PM PDT by Patriot365
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To: EveningStar

When was this ever harmless fun?


18 posted on 10/10/2014 2:09:49 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Vermont Lt

stripping people and rubbing stuff into their crotch is not harmless or mild


19 posted on 10/10/2014 2:11:08 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Vermont Lt
the rest of the team would have killed the kid. And then ostracized them.

Agreed. I really don't understand how it even occurs to someone to do such a thing.

20 posted on 10/10/2014 2:15:36 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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