Many of us have learned that an artist or athlete we admired was a predator. It's a process. I blogged about a recent experience I had learning that Russell Brand, a witty comedian and podcaster and spokesperson for the recovery movement, was an alleged serial predator and rapist. https://carolyngage.weebly.com/blog/september-25th-2023
I was also upset by this coverage. It was adulatory, pure and simple... as if the journalist had to cover the breaking news, but then got into the real story: "Wow, what a fantastic athlete!" I'm thinking of Finding Our Voices, a nonprofit organization that strives to break the silence of domestic abuse, who recently came to the Jesup to do a program about ending the stigma and shame that are key factors in keeping women and children trapped in domestic abuse. I felt my own voice getting smaller and smaller as I read on in this article. I wondered if the writer ever had an experience where a partner or former partner became a predator or batterer, and had to go through all the emotions and hoops to get a restraining order... Most of us who ever did that feared for our safety and even our lives, or our children's lives. And what we felt when we saw that car parked across the street. Or when we walked into the kitchen and there he was drinking coffee and looking up with a grin, "Hi, honey... miss me?" The little notes. The phone messages describing what we were wearing that day. I would like to ask this journalist to do a piece about restraining orders and enforcement of them on MDI... offer anonymity and interview folks about their experiences, helpng readers to understand that this is terrorism, and that it's not a joke, it's not a footnote to an otherwise great guy... and that the consequences of living with that kind of terror are horrendous for the victims. Sometimes we respond in self-defense... and may end up doing time for it. Sometimes we turn that violence on ourselves. And sometimes we are murdered. I know women, more than one, who had had all of these consequences. Do the community a service, take responsibility for the harm done by your piece. Go interview the Finding our Voices women and ask them to tell you their response to your article.
In very poor taste and irresponsible to write plaudits on Gary Allen who abuses women and is a nuisance and more in the MDI community
Many of us have learned that an artist or athlete we admired was a predator. It's a process. I blogged about a recent experience I had learning that Russell Brand, a witty comedian and podcaster and spokesperson for the recovery movement, was an alleged serial predator and rapist. https://carolyngage.weebly.com/blog/september-25th-2023
It's the same with Trump and Biden. The latter has eight different women accusing him of improper sexual behavior (https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/joe-biden-accuser-accusations-allegations.html), and they can't all be Russian agents. Both parties enable these predators.
I was also upset by this coverage. It was adulatory, pure and simple... as if the journalist had to cover the breaking news, but then got into the real story: "Wow, what a fantastic athlete!" I'm thinking of Finding Our Voices, a nonprofit organization that strives to break the silence of domestic abuse, who recently came to the Jesup to do a program about ending the stigma and shame that are key factors in keeping women and children trapped in domestic abuse. I felt my own voice getting smaller and smaller as I read on in this article. I wondered if the writer ever had an experience where a partner or former partner became a predator or batterer, and had to go through all the emotions and hoops to get a restraining order... Most of us who ever did that feared for our safety and even our lives, or our children's lives. And what we felt when we saw that car parked across the street. Or when we walked into the kitchen and there he was drinking coffee and looking up with a grin, "Hi, honey... miss me?" The little notes. The phone messages describing what we were wearing that day. I would like to ask this journalist to do a piece about restraining orders and enforcement of them on MDI... offer anonymity and interview folks about their experiences, helpng readers to understand that this is terrorism, and that it's not a joke, it's not a footnote to an otherwise great guy... and that the consequences of living with that kind of terror are horrendous for the victims. Sometimes we respond in self-defense... and may end up doing time for it. Sometimes we turn that violence on ourselves. And sometimes we are murdered. I know women, more than one, who had had all of these consequences. Do the community a service, take responsibility for the harm done by your piece. Go interview the Finding our Voices women and ask them to tell you their response to your article.
How about more Intel about the arrest and the victim?
I’m with you and glad you’re bringing this to light, it’s just heavy on how amazing he is, with nothing on the gravity of the situation.
I will pursue but I removed allegations which I have not confirmed.. thx
happy to report facts if anyone is willing to share ...