Post by robeiae on Jan 19, 2018 15:52:18 GMT -5
Former team doctor for the US women's gymnastics team--one Larry Nassar, whom I mentioned in the Wienstein thread--is taking a serious metaphorical beating in court, as his victims take the stand and make impact statements, one after the other: www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/us/nassar-victim-impact-statements/index.html
Today was Aly Raisman's turn. Watch highlights of it here: www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/us/larry-nassar-sentencing/index.html
And Raisman also--and rightly--rips into USA Gymnastics and the USA Olympic Committee. Other victims have torn into Michigan State as well.
All this raises a couple of questions for me:
1) Why hasn't this situation gotten a lot more press, as compared to other post-Weinstein stories (because many of these victims were children and the abuse was akin to what Sandusky was accused of, though orders of magnitude worse, imo)?
2) Does this or should this force a major restructuring of women's gymnastics in general, because let's face it, it's really girl's gymnastics and the nature of the sport in this regard creates pools of potential victims?
Today was Aly Raisman's turn. Watch highlights of it here: www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/us/larry-nassar-sentencing/index.html
And Raisman also--and rightly--rips into USA Gymnastics and the USA Olympic Committee. Other victims have torn into Michigan State as well.
All this raises a couple of questions for me:
1) Why hasn't this situation gotten a lot more press, as compared to other post-Weinstein stories (because many of these victims were children and the abuse was akin to what Sandusky was accused of, though orders of magnitude worse, imo)?
2) Does this or should this force a major restructuring of women's gymnastics in general, because let's face it, it's really girl's gymnastics and the nature of the sport in this regard creates pools of potential victims?
