Tag: Jerry Sandusky

my email response to John B Wells making a radio comment about hitting Jerry Sandusky in the head with a baseball bat and his reply to my response

First listen to this audio clip from Coast To Coast AM :

Then read the emails :

me :

I’m sending this message in response to you talking on-air about hitting Jerry Sandusky in the head with a baseball bat. I’m just curious whether or not you have the same reaction to all the adult female teachers who are found “guilty” of having sex with their underaged male students; many of whom are younger than Jerry Sandusky’s alleged victims. There’s no difference in my mind, yet it seems most of society has a gender bias when it comes to pedophile men versus pedophile women, as opposed to considering them equally “abominable”. Are you one of those people? Or would you also like to see the women get hit in the head with baseball bats?

John B Wells :

Marcellee,
My question was ‘where was a man with the baseball bat to take the swing that counted?’. That’s as close as I can remember at this moment.
It meant : ‘why was nothing done by anyone to stop this?’. In most abuse cases, somebody knows something but does nothing. Including the victim.
Make of it what you wish.

2012 June 24

question : What do you think of Jerry Sandusky?

He’s perhaps most known for being a college football coach, but I never followed college football, so I only know of him from the infamy he received after being accused and criminally charged with having sex with, or initiating sexual contact with, underaged boys. I don’t know if those allegations are true or not. You never really know without actual proof. Either way, it doesn’t sway my neutral opinion of him.

The scandal, which had many people declaring him guilty before he even had a chance to go to trial, does serve as another example of the stupid sexist double standard society has when it comes to pedophile men and pedophile women. Public outrage and prison sentences fall heavy on the men; I’m not saying it shouldn’t; while the women comparatively get away with, as the saying goes, a slap on the wrist.