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In reply to the discussion: How to know that you hate women [View all]Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)and that needs to be dealt with too. I think I understand your larger point and agree that culture of violence needs to be dealt with as well. Those higher ups who knew should not get off the hook so easily. They knew about this and did practically nothing about it for all this time.
The reality is that the only way to get anything done legally in recent times is to categorize something as hate. It doesn't get taken seriously otherwise. It only marginally, barely gets taken slightly seriously even if categorized as hate, but at least *something* gets done about it. Unfortunately, the laws are made and not really enforced unless the communities raise hell about hate and that seems to be the only way to get anything at all done.
I do agree about the higher ups and others who knew and the culture of violence overall in sports needing to be dealt with as well.
As a side note: I think it is sort of weird how domestic violence is only considered a crime as an option. If she is is willing to press charges, the police will arrest the guy. If not, they'll let him keep on keeping on. In other words, domestic abuse is only optionally a crime. They don't ask children who've been beaten to a pulp if they want to press charges against whoever did it. They just arrest the jerk. They don't hold seances to ask murder victims if they want to press charges. They just arrest the jerk. With domestic abuse, the woman has to stand there in front of the person who just beat the shit out of her and say she wants to press charges, knowing full well that when his family and/or friends or he, himself, posts bail, he's coming straight back to her for revenge. It is an impossible situation that victims of domestic abuse are placed in to begin with.