Last week we watched many brave young women come forward and testify about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of US Gymnastics Team doctor Larry Nassar.\u00a0 \u00a0Among the women were many Olympic metal winners- girls we all knew by name and rooted for without having any idea what they were enduring behind closed doors.\u00a0 And along with the abuse were the many stories of cover ups and folks looking the other way, which in many ways is the most heartbreaking part of the entire saga.<\/p>\n
And yet, even as this awful case was receiving national attention there were still women within the #metoo movement claiming that sexual harassment is just as bad as actual sexual abuse.\u00a0 While it should be pretty obvious to anyone with even half a brain that’s not the case, these women press on, doing nothing but harm to their own cause and showing yet again how many celebrities are completely out of touch with the real world.<\/p>\n
To be clear, I’m not saying sexual harassment is OK.\u00a0 It’s not.\u00a0\u00a0But abuse is way worse.<\/p>\n
Not sure?\u00a0 Ask me about that day when I was 6 and a much older boy attempted to sexually assault me on the school bus.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Read the blog of my lifelong friend, distant relative and amazing woman J Lynn who is working through the aftermath of her rape in 2014 at\u00a0https:\/\/stopthisworld.com\/\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>Read a few of the statements from the women Larry Nassar assaulted (you won’t be able to get through more than a few without feeling physically ill).<\/p>\n News flash- more than one thing can be bad, and we can think about more than one thing at a time.\u00a0 We don’t have to minimize rape to bring attention to harassment, nor should we.\u00a0 Victims of both deserve better.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week we watched many brave young women come forward and testify about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of US Gymnastics Team doctor Larry Nassar.\u00a0 \u00a0Among the women were many Olympic metal winners- girls we all knew by name and rooted for without having any idea what they were enduring behind closed doors.\u00a0 And along with the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-things-that-make-you-go-huh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t