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whathehell

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32. Happy with that, are you?

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Sat Oct 2, 2021, 07:44 PM

Oct 2021

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Yet Another High School Football Team Sexual Assault Hazing [View all] MineralMan Oct 2021 OP

I wonder how the coaches are involved. viva la Oct 2021 #1

I don't know. The school has cancelled the football season. MineralMan Oct 2021 #2

"Think of the athletes"!..We're are thinking of them -- as violent perverts. whathehell Oct 2021 #6

I'm more concerned with the perpetrators being psychopaths, really. MineralMan Oct 2021 #8

I understand..but you might ask why sex is considered "humiliating? whathehell Oct 2021 #14

Because they treat them like girls and women who nee3d to be demeaned obamanut2012 Oct 2021 #17

So "girls" are, by definition, low status, low grade beings whathehell Oct 2021 #19

Post removed Post removed Oct 2021 #24

Happy with that, are you? whathehell Oct 2021 #32

What?..No more badass, one word confirmations? whathehell Oct 2021 #33

I understand..but you might ask why sex is considered "humiliating? whathehell Oct 2021 #15

It's a cult-ure in which, well, one thing leads to another Backseat Driver Oct 2021 #3

The problem really is that sports in high school gets the attention that it does Buckeyeblue Oct 2021 #4

Sports are very popular. So much so that fans and parents often MineralMan Oct 2021 #5

Yes. We revere athletes and call scientists fakes. Buckeyeblue Oct 2021 #7

Yes, exactly. And academics were even less noticed. MineralMan Oct 2021 #9

The sports people don't understand why all kids don't want to play sports Buckeyeblue Oct 2021 #34

Yes, that seems to be true. MineralMan Oct 2021 #35

"We" don't do that, "they" do that. whathehell Oct 2021 #31

From what I understand, this was more bullying than hazing. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2021 #10

Well, it can be called whatever you like. MineralMan Oct 2021 #11

I think it's an important distinction that has a lot to do with how the story is hitting people. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2021 #13

They want to demean and control them by rape obamanut2012 Oct 2021 #16

Underage girls, yes, but the boys are also underage FakeNoose Oct 2021 #12

It's also underage boys initiating it, no? whathehell Oct 2021 #18

Parents tend to trust teachers and coaches. MineralMan Oct 2021 #21

I wonder if anyone has studied the prevalence of these atrocities thucythucy Oct 2021 #20

I also opted out of gym class in my senior year, but MineralMan Oct 2021 #22

Can you doubt it? If there were money to be made, I'd try to Hortensis Oct 2021 #23

Football and Wrestling. Dawson Leery Oct 2021 #25

do they relize they can be charged with rape? This happened in my home town many years ago.. samnsara Oct 2021 #26

this starts and ends with coaching stopdiggin Oct 2021 #27

That's very true. Sadly, most of the coaches, especially in football MineralMan Oct 2021 #28

and for far too long 'boys will be boys' stopdiggin Oct 2021 #29

Agreed. MineralMan Oct 2021 #30

Man remember the good old days when kids were just shoved into lockers? Initech Oct 2021 #36

I never saw that happen, actually. MineralMan Oct 2021 #37