Recently, I watched a documentary on Larry Nassar. He was the team doctor for the U.S. Women\u2019s national gymnastics team from 1996-2014. In January, 2018, Nassar was convicted of possessing child pornography and ten counts of sexual assault. He was sentenced to an astounding 100-235 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nassar had been accused of sexually assaulting at least 265 young girls. This was a real case of #MeToo Syndrome, as seemingly every girl he had coached eventually joined in, telling their own stories, which as far as I can tell were extremely scant on details. Color me skeptical, as usual. I have yet to hear any media outlet tell Nassar\u2019s side of the story. What was his explanation? I\u2019ve watched two specials on Nassar, and there wasn\u2019t a single talking head, a single defense lawyer, who at least attempted to provide some context. The most incredible aspect of these charges was that the accusers- again, not sure how many, but perhaps all of them as far as I know- revealed that their parents were present during the abuse. You might be thinking, wait a minute, how could a sexual assault happen in front of parents? Yeah, that\u2019s what I was wondering about. If I understand correctly, Nassar is accused of touching these girls inappropriately, while their parents were\u00a0right there in the same room<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Again, the case is a bit fuzzy on specifics, as happens all too often in the #MeToo world. It seems that Nassar\u2019s conduct was first reported in June, 2015, when the personal coach of a female gymnast heard her discussing Nassar with another girl. Once the #MeToo effect kicked in, it was eventually alleged that Nassar had been abusing girls since as early as 1994. Some victims would claim they reported his behavior to his superiors at Michigan State University in 1997. I suppose Michigan State initially denied this, but I don\u2019t know for sure, because the media coverage is essentially a prosecutorial brief. Three former gymnasts would appear on\u00a060 minutes\u00a0<\/em>in February, 2017, to accuse Nassar of sexually abusing them. They also, very tellingly, used the virtue signaling phrase \u201cemotionally abusive environment.\u201d Nassar was accused of inserting his finger in the vaginas of an unclear number of girls, in the presence of an unclear number of parents, who somehow never recognized it.<\/p> In October, 2017, Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney did indeed use the #MeToo hashtag on Twitter, charging that Nassar had repeatedly molested her for eight years. Once the parade of former gymnasts read their victim impact statements in court, Nassar had zero chance at any kind of impartial justice. I think I\u2019m the only one in the world who is opposed to victim impact statements, which are not evidence, and serve only to emotionally manipulate the proceedings. Apparently, Nassar was still claiming to be \u201can innocent person\u201d behind bars, when he was stabbed ten times in July, 2023. I\u2019d sure like to know what Nassar\u2019s defense was. You certainly can\u2019t find out from any television program on the subject, or anywhere else online. If Nassar is the monster he\u2019s being portrayed as, then I\u2019m guilty of asking pointless questions. But I can\u2019t help but be skeptical about these kinds of collective tales of victimhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVictims\u201d and \u201csurvivors\u201d are all the rage in our society. And they\u2019re almost always female. Was there ever some kind of #MeToo moment for sodomized altar boys? I must have missed that. Do they get to call themselves \u201cvictims\u201d and \u201csurvivors\u201d of sexual assault for the rest of their lives? And I\u2019m pretty sure that virtually all of them who were abused were abused by penises, not fingers. The same thing with boy scouts. A lot of them came out later and claimed abuse. But it just wasn\u2019t the same. There was no giant cavalcade of now male adults who\u2019d been in the same troop coming forth belatedly with \u201cyes, I was abused too\u201d allegations. Few of them were granted softball interviews, where they were treated as \u201cvictims\u201d and \u201csurvivors,\u201d not human beings who were making serious allegations long after the fact. There is a strange camaraderie between female \u201csurvivors,\u201d which you just don\u2019t see with males.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is odd is how easily such claims are accepted, when the alleged abuser is a lone individual, like Nassar, with no powerful political connections. Compare that to the kids who alleged sexual abuse- and again, not with fingers- from the most powerful people in Nebraska, as detailed in John DeCamp\u2019s book\u00a0The Franklin Cover-Up.\u00a0<\/em>Not only were those almost all boy victims ignored by the media, the only female victim, Alisha Owen, was convicted of perjury and sentenced to 9-29 years in prison. She had accused the most influential local figures, from a newspaper publisher to the chief of police, with genuine rape. No parents present. The only documentary ever produced on the case,\u00a0Conspiracy of Silence,\u00a0<\/em>was pulled from airing at the last moment, and can only be seen online, in a very poor quality video copy. The accusations were detailed, and included an inadvertent description of Bohemian Grove, where our top leaders cavort, with no females anywhere in sight, every July in the California hills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The preschoolers who made identical accusations against those who ran the McMartin Preschool in California were again treated much more skeptically than the girl gymnasts would be. Despite the fact that a doctor testified to evidence of anal trauma in the vast majority of these\u00a0preschoolers,\u00a0<\/em>the entire mainstream media took the side of the adults accused of much more graphic sexual crimes than Nassar ever was. The preschoolers were scoffed at. Much as one of the main boy accusers in the Franklin case was found dead under highly suspicious circumstances, the woman who first reported her concerns about McMartin would later die in questionable fashion as well. That tends to happen to those who point out examples of what the late Dave McGowan called the international Pedophocracy. If you\u2019re a wildly unbalanced woman like E. Jean Carroll, your claims of rape in some unspecified year long ago are believed. But not if you\u2019re a preschooler with a traumatized anus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My radar is triggered when I hear constant references to not only dubious #MeToo \u201csurvivors,\u201d but also upon noticing how every woman (again, not men) whose cancer goes into remission can don the mantle of \u201csurvivor.\u201d As someone who wrote\u00a0Bullyocracy,\u00a0<\/em>the definitive word on bullying, I\u2019ve long wondered why middle-age adults, still haunted by what they experienced at the hands of other kids decades earlier, aren\u2019t called \u201csurvivors.\u201d Can those who\u2019ve been ripped off in some financial scheme claim they \u201csurvived\u201d that? They surely were real victims. Hasn\u2019t any husband who was cheated on \u201csurvived\u201d his wife\u2019s adultery? What about all the blue collar workers, and common laborers, who\u2019ve been mistreated and abused by excessively strict bosses over the decades? Weren\u2019t they \u201cvictims?\u201d Can\u2019t they say they \u201csurvived\u201d a very bad experience? We\u2019ve all been sold defective products- lemons. Why can\u2019t we virtue signal about being \u201cvictims\u201d and \u201csurvivors\u201d of crony capitalism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve never been raped, or sexually abused. It must be awful. According to the information I found online, the average prison sentence for rape is\u00a0eight years.\u00a0<\/em>Believe it or not, the average sentence for murder is only 15-25 years. So how does a guy like Nassar, who was accused of inserting his fingers into various vaginas, most often while parents were present, get 100-235 years? I mean, even if he did do that to hundreds of girls, certainly that must be considered a lesser offense than actual rape, or even murder? Maybe I just don\u2019t understand the #MeToo mindset. Perhaps I\u2019m shamefully insensitive to all the tearful victim impact statements. I\u2019m a civil libertarian, and my first impulse is to look for loopholes in any prosecution. I\u2019ve found very few cases where there weren\u2019t tons of loopholes. Reasonable doubt everywhere. But you can\u2019t fight #MeToo, and the victimhood of \u201csurvivors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know I\u2019m going against the grain here, as usual. I\u2019m used to being in the distinct minority. Recently, Kat Timpf, a young regular on Fox News\u2019 popular\u00a0Gutfeld\u00a0<\/em>program, was diagnosed with breast cancer when she gave birth to her first child. I think they said it was Stage 1- which is the beginning stage, according to my limited knowledge. Stages of cancer are sometimes like categories of hurricanes. It\u2019s confusing. At any rate, Timpf rather surprisingly chose to undergo a double mastectomy, which doesn\u2019t seem to have been necessary. Maybe she remembered the example set by actress and CFR member Angelina Jolie, who had a mastectomy even though she didn\u2019t have cancer. And wasn\u2019t \u201ctransitioning.\u201d She said she did it because of her family history. I\u2019m not close to being a member of the CFR, so that doesn\u2019t make sense to me. At any rate, opting for such radical measures seems to augment the whole \u201csurvivor\u201d status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![](\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ad-Black-99-Macroaggressions.png\"\/)
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