[Will88]

Whitlock isn't implying the men involved were homosexuals.

Nothing I said suggested he was implying that. But he did say:

Only a group of men could find Sandusky’s mental illness more sympathetic than the victims’ suffering.

and

We think with the wrong head.

I'm afraid Whitlock is projecting with those statements. Most normal men will not be more sympathetic with a molester than with a child victim. And most men will not "think with the wrong head" when it comes to adults molesting children.

[workerbee]

Then how would you explain what happenened? Were Paterno & Co. "normal" men? If not, what? Homosexual pedophiles? No.... then, what's left? Old-boy, football culture blindness...? That's my take.

It's not altogether unreasonable to see how a female, in the midst of all that, could have prevented years of tragedy. Is it?

If what ends up is lots of "female meddling" in male collegiate sports, don't blame the women. It was all the "normal" men who kept giving this crap a pass.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

I'm afraid Whitlock is projecting with those statements. Most normal men will not be more sympathetic with a molester than with a child victim. And most men will not "think with the wrong head" when it comes to adults molesting children.

Whether you agree or not with his conclusions, the facts are that of all of the men who knew about it, NONE did anything about it. What ever the reason was, whether it was protecting the school's image, sympathy, or anything else, all of these men decided it was more important than the victims.

It's easy to say "there is no way I would have let this happen". I'm sure that any of these men, if asked beforehand what they would have done, would have said that they would have reported it or in some way tried to put a stop to it. That they didn't and why is worth discussing, even if you don't agree with this writer's conclusions.