This morning, Tom Matlack, founder of the GMP, was interviewed on NECN’s The Morning Show. Tom spoke with host Steve Aveson about the child rape scandal at Penn State, why it all shouldn’t be surprising, and how we can go about changing things. Check out the video above.
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I hoped in this case, the irony of it would come through. In this case, women have all the power “to name and define reality, and the more completely (her) arguments prevail.”
Just reverse the genders and it’s right on target.
As many have said, it’s about power not sex. Sometimes woman have the power.
I’m disappointed you chose to censor my comment Tom. For someone who publicly claims to be trying to opening up a conversation, censorship seems an odd tool to do that. My point was better made by the feminist traumatologist Judith Herman in “Trauma and Recovery” 20 years ago, so I leave TGMP with her wise words: “To study psychological trauma is to come face to face both with human vulnerability in the natural world and with the capacity for evil in human nature. To study psychological trauma means bearing witness to horrible events. When the events are natural disasters or… Read more »
Allan – the quote chosen is valid and very powerful. On the other hand – it just shows how the author has gender bias. It’s so revealing how the Perp – Victim dynamic is spoken about – and how it shifts from gender neutral to Perp=Masculine – Victim=Feminine. So many just don’t even notice it until they have it pointed out. “… If he cannot silence her absolutely…” why the gender polarization and bias? Odd how the extract calls upon The Holocaust, but then slips into the view that would indicate only Jewish Women were subject to genocide. And the… Read more »
Lets not forget the feminist abuse abuse industry and academic feminism – both involved in whats probably the largest abuse cover-up on record – the myth that abuse is mainly gendered.
This is such an important issue, and it is unfortunate that instead of dealing with it seriously we got the “it’s all teh menz fault” feminist talking points. Child abuse is not limited to male-run institutions or only committed by men, and playing that game insults the men and boys who are victims of abuse. As a male survivor I am well aware that feminists do not take sexual violence against males seriously, so I am hardly surprised by the “the real problem’s that teh menz run things” direction the interview took. However, that sentiment does not encourage more men… Read more »
Jacob – I agree with much of what you have said. Blind eyes get turned – but so many think they have perfect vision and that blinds them just as much more! I have a slightly different take. I keep hearing the “Old Boys Network” – OBN “Trope”, but I think it’s the wrong label or even metaphor. Abuse, in it’s widest sense, and failings in dealing with it is “Institutional” in nature. PSU, Police, Government Agencies – all too often they receive report and don’t pursue it with vigor. It does not happen just in child abuse, but in… Read more »
And, I would point out in the Penn State case and Catholic Church cases, there were women who were part of the cover ups. Even the supposedly “male only” insitutions are not strictly male institutions.