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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
your example probably isn't the right one for the Penn State situation
I think the idea that "well, no one's making a big deal of it, so I won't make a big deal of it" seems to apply here as well, is all.
Did I mention my mother went out today? She went out today! She's not driving herself yet, but she made them take her grocery shopping. God, my mother is so much the best one of the four of us. This is...hard.
Poor Matilda.
Yay ita!Mom for going out!
Devil's food cake is frosted and in the fridge, and I am off for bed.
Glad she got out, ita!
I used some of OPI's shattered polish and I think the jury's still out on it.
I watched a lot of roller derby today. The WFTDA championships are streaming online all weekend and it's a great time to catch some seriously good bouts.
Congratulations, ChiKat! That's great!!
Yeah, both P-C and ChiKat have exciting things going on creativity-wise! Veddy cool and HUGE congratulations on your accomplishments!
Planned Parenthood and their "cover up of child sex abuse."
What the what? I don't even.
YAY ChiKat! That's so awesome.
Interesting keeping up with the PSU thing over here in the UK. It's not like I've been watching the news or anything, but it's usually on at the pub. Mostly concerned with Berlisconi getting kicked out as part as EU austerity measures. Also Remembrance Day which is huge over here. (the 11th hour of the llth day of the 11th month...)
Anyway, glad to have y'all and Scalzi around to keep me up to date on all this stuff.
An article and photos from the vigil last night. I don't know how many people were there, but I've seen estimates as high as 10,000. [link]
Oh yay, ChiKat! Buffista writers are a dime a dozen, but I don't think we have many Buffista playwrights!!!1!
Congratulations, ChiKat!
Was it Natter where we were discussing waffles yesterday? 'Cause I woke up with a terrible craving for them. My waffle iron is in a pocket universe somewhere, so I settled for pancakes. Really good pancakes, though. My cast iron frying pan does a great job with them.
So, there are now some articles coming out that discuss the PSU situation in the context of a pattern of ignoring sexual abuse on campus.
See this link: [link]
In late 2002, Penn State cornerback Anwar Phillips was accused by a classmate of sexual assault, and the university suspended him for two semesters. But before his suspension began, the Nittany Lions were to play Auburn in the middle of January in the Capital One Bowl. Paterno put Phillips in uniform.
And Paterno apparently had support from above. In his 2005 book about Paterno, The Lion in Autumn, sportswriter Frank Fitzpatrick described the uproar that followed. Athletics director Tim Curley, who has been charged with failing to report a crime and perjuring himself in front of the grand jury, insisted in 2003 that it had been “appropriate” for Phillips to play; university administrators said that a miscommunication was to blame.
Paterno refused to say whether he even knew Phillips had been accused or suspended. “What happened, happened. I have very little control over it,” he said that spring, according to Fitzpatrick.
Paterno added later: “That’s nobody’s business but mine. It’s not the fans’ business, and it’s not yours.” No one but Paterno, of course, knows whether what he had been told about Sandusky four years earlier crossed his mind.
Another blogger has situated the PSU situation in a larger context of ignoring the rape of adult women:
The mistake Penn State made was, in many ways, a simple category error: they mistook these pubescent boys for women. They forgot that children occupy a very different status in the law than do the female students, faculty and staff who are most frequently the object of unwanted sexual attention and/or violence. If a college woman doesn’t file a rape charge, usually very quickly, the crime doesn’t exist.