Forgot to excerpt the article. This isn’t the whole article.
That poor girl has really had a tough time after the Olympics. Hope she can find herself.
I was thinking about Amanda Peterson yesterday, the actress from Can’t By Me Love. She came from a great family, was a beautiful smart girl, and her family said she was abused as a minor in Hollywood. She essentially killed herself with a drug overdose a few years ago after a VERY rough adulthood.
I know some will say where were the parents. Maybe that’s fair but I’ve seen the Petersons interviewed. Dad is a doctor. Amanda’s brother is a pastor. It just all went wrong. It’s sad.
One was a childhood friend of my sister's, and the other was the daughter of a high-school friend.
The high-school friend's daughter has a totally ruined life. She's an alcoholic and drug-addicted, has attempted suicide many times, can't take care of herself, etc. She's in her late thirties. Has no family of her own, depends on her mother for everything. Really bad.
Got into a huge fight with the wife last night over this stuff.
Her position is that it happened to her a couple of times when she was younger (High school and college) where a guy stuck his hand up under her dress and grabbed her rear end.
I agreed that kind of behavior is boorish and the guy should have been slapped in the least and kicked out of college at worst. (This happened in a college advisor area—but it was a student along with my wife who was a student at the time.)
The argument stemmed with my conviction that if she did not say anything, then she allowed this man the “permission” to do it again—because there was no consequence.
I also pointed out to her that she should have shared this experience with our two adult daughters while they were going through high school and college. It was her opportunity to “empower” them that unacceptable behavior is unacceptable no matter who does it, or where its done.
I stated my opinion that all of the “celebrities” doing the #meToo bullshit are not doing anyone any good without naming names. The people who do this stuff should be ostracized. and humiliated in the court of public opinion—of not a court of law.
My position was I am horrified that she had to endure that, but I was also horrified that she did nothing to stop it. For all of these women, the message has to be that no one gets away with it. And that lesson is more important than their career—because there are plenty of people who WILL hire you or WILL date you without giving up your self respect.
I was told to climb back on my male perch.
Don’t believe it was medically necessary but do believe he’d been doing it for 30 years.
I was groped at the office once. I yelled, “get your hands off me or I’ll sue your ass!!”. The look on his face was priceless. No further problems.
I like the Star Trek approach, where the girl always gets to nail the guy with a hard slap in the face when he gets out of line. Women should re-learn that they do have power and they can set their boundaries with the specific men who need to be reminded.
That’s healthier than a generalized bitterness toward men.
When the stories about the team doctor first came out, I immediately thought of Maroney. And I can think of two other gymnasts who were possible victims of the pervert. They were both head cases.
She’s still not impressed.
This is sort of like what Dennis Hastert did to some of the kids on his wrestling team.
This Nassar guy was pretty sick. He would bring the girls in to treat muscle issues and make them take their clothes off and would then stick his finger in everything and massage their breasts. In cases where girls complained they were told by other coaches it was necessary medical treatment, so it wasn’t just Nassar.