Remedial Masculinity

November 10, 2011 in Masculinity, sexual abuse 6 Comments Tags: abuse, McQueary, Paterno

There’s my daddy. Let me ask him what I should do.

Mike McQueary, the 28-year-old aspiring coach at Penn State, the one who saw Sandusky butt-fucking a ten-year-old boy, left the scene of the crime and called his daddy. McQueary needs to take remedial masculinity courses.

DeeGee suggests this as a scenario that should be studied in such a class:

If you need a reminder of what to do if you walk into a shower area and find a grown man thrusting behind a boy bracing with his arms against a wall, you could do worse than the following.

You: Move away from the boy. I’m talking to you old man. Stand back. Do it now.

Man: Aw, come on, we’re just horsing around.

You: Shut up and move away from the boy. Kid? Kid, look at me. Turn around and look at me. Go get dressed. You’re going to the hospital.

Man: Hospital? For what?

You: SHUT YOUR FACE.

Man: Oh, you’re big stuff now. Is that it? You think you’ve got something on me? Me? Don’t make me laugh. You know who I am.

You: I don’t know you. The man I thought I knew isn’t here.

Man: Stop the innocent act. You don’t know me? Good one.

You: Kid, you need help over there? Let’s go. Let’s get out of here.

Man: What’s the hurry. He’s not late, he’s staying in my basement room.

You: Not tonight, pal, and not ever again. Not anyone.

Man: What’s that supposed to mean. You know what you signed on for, don’t you? If you want to move up the career ladder here, just walk out that door. You can do it. I’ll have a recommendation for you on my desk in the morning.

You: (picking up a trash can) Kid, wait over by the door. I’ll be right there.

Man: You don’t have to take him. I like him. You can have a different one.

You: (take the trash can into the shower for the sort of beating that crumbles the steel can and drops the man to the tile floor, then put the smashed can against his head and kick until your leg gets tired. Leave with the boy.)

Kid: Did you hurt Mr. Sandusky.

You: Did he hurt you?

Kid: Yes he did, again.

You: He won’t again. Do you like that?

Kid: Yes.

You: You’re not a throw away.

Kid: What?

You: Nothing.

Kid: I don’t feel so good.

You: Neither do I, kid, neither do I.

McQueary will be coaching Saturday – with a name that is custom made for mockery. I wonder if there will be a riot at the stadium.

Paterno and Sandusky are good Catholics and members of the Knights of Columbus (which honored him) and imitated the priests and bishops who taught them by example how to act.

Yes, I am bitter – I am bitter about the weak being sacrificed to the convenience of the powerful and the entertainment of the masses.

UPDATE

The Board of Trustees has more balls than the entire Penn State football staff. They have banned McQueary from the Saturday game – now if they would only fire him.

Penn State‘s Board of Trustees have asked the university’s head football coach to keep Mike McQueary, the assistant coach at the center of a child sex scandal, off the field during Saturday’s nationally-televised game against Nebraska, according to one of the trustees.

The board does not plan to fire McQueary or ask him to step down, according to the trustee, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the matter.

The Sensitive Students of Penn State

November 10, 2011 in sexual abuse 2 Comments Tags: Paterno, Sandusky riots, students

A sister of one of Sandusky’s victims is a student at Penn State. The Patriot-News reports

In a parallel universe, going to class might be a nice distraction, to get her mind off the chaos surrounding the arrest of the man accused of molesting her brother.

But not as a junior at Penn State, where students are making jokes about being “Sanduskied.”

“I can’t escape it,” said the junior, whose brother was allegedly molested in a shower by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky when he was 11.

“I’ve been going to minimal classes, because every class I go to I get sick to my stomach. People are making jokes about it. I understand they don’t know I’m involved and it was my brother, but it’s still really hard to swallow that.”

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“I’ve just been really upset about it all because a lot of people aren’t focusing on the victims in this,” she said. “And instead they’re focusing on other things, like football. As much as you shouldn’t blame the football players … they should be focusing on their respect for the families and what they’ve been through.”

Instead, the outrage on campus has been directed mostly at national media, which descended during the weekend, set up camp and have stayed put as the scandal violently jolts in directions that, each day, seem more unbelievable than the last.

And here and here and here are the students expressing their opinions about the media. At least, unlike certain Catholic cardinals, the students are not blaming the Jews – at least not yet.

More Ethical than the Pope

November 10, 2011 in clergy sex abuse scandal, sexual abuse 6 Comments Tags: Paterno, Sandusky, Spanier

The Board of Trustees at Penn State University has fired both the president Spanier and the legendary coach Paterno for their failure to act legally and ethically in handling the allegations of child abuse against Sandusky.

Note the contrast to the Vatican, which has NEVER removed a bishop for similar failures.

The behavior of the coaches and administrators is eerily parallel to the behavior of the clergy, which perhaps shows that general institutional dynamics are at work, rather than causes (such as celibacy) unique to the Catholic clergy.

When I was a federal investigator during security clearances, I noticed that the standards for janitors in sensitive installations were higher than the standards for Catholic priests. Even then, the type of behavior that was tolerated by the Church would have gotten a janitor fired immediately.

My wife also noticed how molesters like to taunt the public by half-revealing their activity. Bruce Ritter at Covenant House used to write fund-raising newsletters in which he described the bulges in the tight jeans of teenage male prostitutes. Sandusky gave his book the title Touched. He knew that administrators at Penn State were aware of his criminal activities and basically did nothing to stop him. Manipulating the administration was an additional pleasure.

A large number of students rioted at Penn State IN SUPPORT OF PATERNO. Congregations have applauded their molesting pastors. Administrators in church and state did not act to protect children in part because their publics were willing to tolerate child rape in order to keep something else: an entertaining priest, a winning coach.

About 2,000 people gathered at Old Main and moved to an area called Beaver Canyon, a street ringed by student apartments that were used in past riots to pelt police, Fox affiliate WTXF-TV reported.

The disorder escalated after the school’s board of trustees held an emergency meeting Wednesday night and later announced that they had dismissed Paterno, the longest-tenured coach in major-college football, and Graham Spanier, the school’s president for the past 16 years.

Both were ousted by a board of trustees fed up with the damage being done to the university’s reputation by a child sex-abuse scandal involving Paterno’s one-time heir apparent, Jerry Sandusky.

Sandusky is accused of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period through a charity he founded for at-risk youth.

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Ambrose Bierce had too high an opinion of humanity.