Posted on 01/08/2006 12:22:38 PM PST by Sub-Driver
NOW: Paterno Should Resign Over Comments
(AP) STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Women’s rights advocates who say Joe Paterno made outrageous remarks about an alleged sexual assault want the Penn State football coach to resign.
Joanne Tosti-Vasey, president of the National Organization for Women in Pennsylvania, said Paterno’s comments last week represent an institutional insensitivity that endangers women. She issued a news release late Friday calling for Paterno’s resignation.
“When someone of his stature makes light of sexual assault, we have a serious problem,” Tosti-Vasey said. “It sends a message that this behavior is not serious ... that sexual assault or rape or violence against women is acceptable for an athlete.”
The coach’s remarks came a day before the Orange Bowl, when a reporter asked a question related to Florida State linebacker A.J. Nicholson. Nicholson was accused of sexual assault and sent home before Tuesday’s game.
Paterno replied by talking about past suspensions of Penn State players, according to an official transcript from the Orange Bowl.
He then added: “There’s some tough—there’s so many people gravitating to these kids. He may not have even known what he was getting into, Nicholson. They knock on the door; somebody may knock on the door; a cute girl knocks on the door. What do you do?”
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Do I detect a faint moustache
You stared way too long at that picture!
She doesn't look very tasty to me. Oh,...Tosti, sorry,...nevermind.
Joe Paterno has been my favorite College Coach since the '80s even though I graduated from The University of Texas and I am not from PA. He is a man of integrity. I see his comments as somewhat harmless. He spoke the truth. You've got these girls throwing themselves at "celbrity jocks"; what's a 20 year old kid gonna do especially after she gets scared she might be pregnant and screams "rape".
I don't mean to sound unsympathetic here to anyone who has been victim of sexual assault of any kind.
Recall that Joe Paterno has campaigned for the Republicans.
To paraphrase Rush Limbaugh: "The women's movement was started to give ugly women access to the mainstream".
She doesn't look very tasty to me. Oh,...Tosti, sorry,...nevermind.
Yeeeesh. She should resign her face.
NOW says Paterno should resign while the NAACP says Paterno should have his face carved onto Mt. Rushmore.
I'm not so sure she HAS a "door"
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression.
31. Belittle all forms of American culture
Where was NOW when Juanita Broderick needed them?
Kathleen Wiley and God only knows how many more???????????
NOW has lost all credibility and has for years but then again I think they never had it to begin with.
That's a maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, baby!
I think that any coach is allowed to their opinion.
NOW is just trying to prove their worth after proving their worthlesness.
Ahh, the bit*h is just angry she didn't get to the guys room first.
Paterno has been around too long for anything like this to bring him down. He's a good man and there is NO ONE gonna listen to the NOW gang trying to make something out of this.
Go Penn State...Go Joe Paterno...
mother of one son?
huh, so she must have knocked on a door once, eh? was she cute then- or was the schmuck that answered the door?
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