Posted on 07/13/2012 5:39:51 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty
They want us to believe Joe Paterno and his title-heavy minions — university president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and senior vice president Gary Schultz — didn’t fully grasp the depravity of Jerry Sandusky’s perversion.
They, Paterno’s remaining apologists, want us to believe JoePa’s and Penn State’s sin had more to do with naivete than vanity.
They’re delusional and think we’re stupid.
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Rename the place State Penn
Obviously, she would have to find out about it to take action. The point is, the men who knew about it didn't take action. Apart from covering it up, that is.
I’m curious how many reporters covering the program knew about Sandusky (or at least had reasonable suspicions) and let it go to protect their access and their phony-baloney jobs. Don’t get me wrong. Sandusky is a scumbag. The guys on the staff who let him stay there deserve all the abuse they’re getting (up to and including Paterno). But I find it really hard to believe that all the boys on the beat had no clue about what was going on until the grand-jury report dropped.
I think Whitlock has gone off on a tangent on this one. The overwhelming motive that worked against the four higher ups handing the Sandusky crimes as they should have was the Penn State football culture, and a desire to not reveal that such a sordid and disgusting situation could exist within that glorified culture. They hoped they could sweep it under the carpet and that it would stay there.
Plus, the molester was an esteemed colleague who’d made great contributions to PS football success. They probably had great difficulty admitting he was what the evidence said he was. Again, easier to sweep it under the carpet and hope it stayed there.
The idea that the sexual proclivities of men somehow influenced their action, or inaction when dealing with a child molester makes no sense. I don’t think most men have allowed their sexual nature to blind them to the abuse of children by other adults.
That's a good point. This cesspool just got a lot smellier.
All Whitlock is saying is that, perhaps, had their been women involved somewhere along the line, all this "old boy" crap wouldn't have enabled these crimes as long as they did.
One particaular woman school principal kept silent on a child molester who was caught with her full knoweledge instead of reporting him to police, that is, until another student is molested some time later. The woman [principal] turned herself “in” to authorities, after acknowledging there was a warrant out for her arrest-— plastered all over the news-—for not reporting to police what she knew of the first alleged molestation. So it seems woman can be just as evil for letting a pervert teach while cruising the halls for his next victim[s].
Paterno enabled the rape of dozens of children. His corpse should be dug up, set on fire, and the remains fed to wild dogs. Every last vestige of his “accomplishments” should be wiped from the history books.
...just do a search on "Sandusky ice cream cone"......this kind of shiite don't just happen because someone thought it may be cute.
One particaular woman school principal kept silent on a child molester who was caught with her full knoweledge instead of reporting him to police, that is, until another student is molested some time later. The woman [principal] turned herself “in” to authorities, after acknowledging there was a warrant out for her arrest-— plastered all over the news-—for not reporting to police what she knew of the first alleged molestation. So it seems woman can be just as evil for letting a pervert teach while cruising the halls for his next victim[s].
My computer is running weird and posted twice.
I've also known men who would not tolerate any threat of sexual molestation directed at a child, or for that matter an adult, by anyone.
Sexism comes in many forms. The author of this piece exhibited one of them. Claiming that men are innately sexually deviant, and women are morally superior is “sexism”.
“So it seems woman can be just as evil for letting a pervert teach while cruising the halls for his next victim[s].”
ABSOLUTELY, YES. It is absurd to think those who did nothing did so because they were men. Imagine someone saying, “they let it slide because they were Mexicans”. Women have been known to let this sort of crime go unreported for reasons of power, or for boyfriends or husbands: There have even been cases where women aid and abet in sexual crimes (even some in which women allowed a man to molest their own child).
I have complete understanding of the matter. I read the grand jury testimony and the FBI along with numerous other reports and information. JoPa was not a decent man and far from the finest. He allowed this to go on with obvious knowledge that there was serious wrong being perpetrated on children but his football program and legacy were more important. I personally think he was a man that allowed evil into his midst and was blinded by pride and power. That will never meet my definition of someone I would even call a man.
Everyone is reaching for answers, but I don’t think “women in leadership” is the answer we are looking for.
Honestly acknowledging that those of the homosexual persuasion molest at ten times the rate of non-homos would be a great start, and policies reflecting this TRUTH should be in force. Like, homosexual people should not be in positions of trust with boys. Politically incorrect, too bad. I know some homos aren’t into boys. But the statistics don’t lie.
Then the long, hard slog of restoring the normative two-parent family needs to get underway. From gutting welfare to changing societal norms to obscenity law enforcement to an end to no-fault divorce to strong legal disincentives for adultery and child abandonment, on and on. . .
“charities” like “Second Mile” and “Big Brothers” (which were sued today for similar behavior) exist because there ARE NO FATHERS IN THE HOME. And they are conduits for sexual predators. Sometimes the intentions are good, but children need their FATHER. and our laws and culture largely marginalize and ignore that pivotal FACT of human nature.
The best way to protect kids, especially boys, from sexual abuse, is for them to have a committed and loving dad right there in their homes the entire time they grow up. While that can’t be forced, it can be strongly encouraged and single motherhood can be strongly discouraged. We just don’t have the worldview to accept it, nor the strength of will to insist upon it. Myself I will continue to advocate.
“My computer is running weird and posted twice.”
I think this is on the FR end. I have had it happen here on numerous occasions but nowhere else lately.
One troll has been zotted already today.
I’m curious how many reporters covering the program knew about Sandusky....
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Of course they knew. And not just the press. The entire NCAA knew. Why else has Sandusky remained in limbo since 1999? When he could have been the head coach at any Division I school of his choice?
Claiming that men are innately sexually deviant, and women are morally superior is “sexism”.
I reiterate, I don't think this is Whitlock's point, and the headline is misguided. His emphasis is that the old-boy network -- the "football culture" that was so entrenched at Penn St -- blinded far too many people in allowing these heinous crimes to continue for far too long. In those circumstance, it's perfectly arguable to suggest that a female "with authority" would have been a barrier to that type of blindness.
The janitor knew.
Who all flew in for the orgies? Talk about alumni clubs!
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