The Feminization of Victimhood

The rules of virtue signaling

Recently, I watched a documentary on Larry Nassar. He was the team doctor for the U.S. Women’s 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.

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’s side of the story. What was his explanation? I’ve watched two specials on Nassar, and there wasn’t 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’s what I was wondering about. If I understand correctly, Nassar is accused of touching these girls inappropriately, while their parents were right there in the same room.

Again, the case is a bit fuzzy on specifics, as happens all too often in the #MeToo world. It seems that Nassar’s 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’t know for sure, because the media coverage is essentially a prosecutorial brief. Three former gymnasts would appear on 60 minutes in February, 2017, to accuse Nassar of sexually abusing them. They also, very tellingly, used the virtue signaling phrase “emotionally abusive environment.” 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.

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’m 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 “an innocent person” behind bars, when he was stabbed ten times in July, 2023. I’d sure like to know what Nassar’s defense was. You certainly can’t find out from any television program on the subject, or anywhere else online. If Nassar is the monster he’s being portrayed as, then I’m guilty of asking pointless questions. But I can’t help but be skeptical about these kinds of collective tales of victimhood.

“Victims” and “survivors” are all the rage in our society. And they’re 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 “victims” and “survivors” of sexual assault for the rest of their lives? And I’m 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’t the same. There was no giant cavalcade of now male adults who’d been in the same troop coming forth belatedly with “yes, I was abused too” allegations. Few of them were granted softball interviews, where they were treated as “victims” and “survivors,” not human beings who were making serious allegations long after the fact. There is a strange camaraderie between female “survivors,” which you just don’t see with males.

The same media which accepted without question any gymnast’s belated accusation against Nassar went apoplectic at suggestions that the John Podesta emails, published by Wikileaks, contained “coded” references to child sex, because of the massive and inordinate use of the terms “pizza” and “pasta.” In one email, there was a ridiculous reference to a napkin left behind at a party, that contained a “pizza related map.” The owner of Comet Ping Pong certainly posted some bizarre things on Instagram, but that was all “debunked.” The entire media- including most of the alt media- assures us of that. Some suitable “nut” fired a gun in Comet Ping Pong, and that somehow settled the case. Ignore the photo of the little girl duct taped to a table there. Recently, that gunman just happened to be shot dead by our brave law enforcement officers during some kind of traffic stop. Nothing to see here. Just ask the fact checkers.

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’s book The Franklin Cover-Up. 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, Conspiracy of Silence, 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.

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 preschoolers, 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’re a wildly unbalanced woman like E. Jean Carroll, your claims of rape in some unspecified year long ago are believed. But not if you’re a preschooler with a traumatized anus.

My radar is triggered when I hear constant references to not only dubious #MeToo “survivors,” but also upon noticing how every woman (again, not men) whose cancer goes into remission can don the mantle of “survivor.” As someone who wrote Bullyocracy, the definitive word on bullying, I’ve long wondered why middle-age adults, still haunted by what they experienced at the hands of other kids decades earlier, aren’t called “survivors.” Can those who’ve been ripped off in some financial scheme claim they “survived” that? They surely were real victims. Hasn’t any husband who was cheated on “survived” his wife’s adultery? What about all the blue collar workers, and common laborers, who’ve been mistreated and abused by excessively strict bosses over the decades? Weren’t they “victims?” Can’t they say they “survived” a very bad experience? We’ve all been sold defective products- lemons. Why can’t we virtue signal about being “victims” and “survivors” of crony capitalism?

What about Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesman? Again, I watched a one-sided documentary on his case, and I still don’t know exactly what he really did with underage girls. He had a female friend, who was a former radio DJ, and oddly took it upon herself to expose him for something she had no idea he was guilty of at first. She recorded all their phone calls, and like an undercover cop in a chat room pretending to be a 12 year old, she did everything she could to lead him on, even insinuating that she thought such things were ‘hot.” The clearly smitten Fogle, who’d been bullied himself as a fat youngster, I think just started telling her what she wanted to hear, naively believing it would impress her. At any rate, Fogle was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years for child pornography and child sexual abuse. But it’s unclear just what children Fogle abused, and if so, the circumstances surrounding it.

I’ve never been raped, or sexually abused. It must be awful. According to the information I found online, the average prison sentence for rape is eight years. 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’t understand the #MeToo mindset. Perhaps I’m shamefully insensitive to all the tearful victim impact statements. I’m a civil libertarian, and my first impulse is to look for loopholes in any prosecution. I’ve found very few cases where there weren’t tons of loopholes. Reasonable doubt everywhere. But you can’t fight #MeToo, and the victimhood of “survivors.”

I know I’m going against the grain here, as usual. I’m used to being in the distinct minority. Recently, Kat Timpf, a young regular on Fox News’ popular Gutfeld 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’s confusing. At any rate, Timpf rather surprisingly chose to undergo a double mastectomy, which doesn’t 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’t have cancer. And wasn’t “transitioning.” She said she did it because of her family history. I’m not close to being a member of the CFR, so that doesn’t make sense to me. At any rate, opting for such radical measures seems to augment the whole “survivor” status.

What is often glossed over is the fact that women do make false rape claims. And when that is exposed, they are rarely prosecuted for it. Look at the Duke lacrosse case, where racial politics were front and center, and caused an unquestioning state controlled media to not only accept the Black stripper’s ludicrous story, but also dox the White players accused, by publishing the home addresses of their families. How many men have languished in prison for years, or even decades, and then been cleared of rape by DNA evidence? How many of those who falsely accused them, robbing them of a large portion of their lives, were ever prosecuted? Isn’t that kind of the ultimate disinformation? You know, the kind the government is so concerned about? I guess it depends upon which side your disinformation is buttered on. You could argue that serving years in prison for a rape you didn’t commit is as bad as rape itself.

I can’t pretend to know what it’s like to be a woman. To be ogled at, or whistled at. In the past, when the Patriarchy ruled, too many men took way too many liberties with too many women. It used to be called “getting fresh” back in the day, and everyone pretty much just chuckled about it. But I don’t think many females really get ogled at openly these days, and there can’t be many catcalls happening anywhere in America 2.0. I’m pretty sure there’s probably some law against whistling at girls now. But you ought to be able to strike up a conversation with a female. You should be able to express interest in females that you find attractive. Otherwise, you end up with dwindling birth rates, plummeting marriage rates, growing numbers of 40 year old virgins, and the like. Oh, wait. Yeah, that is the reality now. We’ve gone from drunken males free to cop a feel on anyone, to the mad world of incels and AI sex dolls.

I am tired- call it fatigued- of all the “victim” and “survivor” posturing. I was an obese child when obesity was very rare. Can I claim to have been a “victim” of obesity and indeed a “survivor” of it? My father was an unhappy alcoholic. Can I claim to have “survived” a childhood marred by alcoholism? Wasn’t I some kind of “victim” there? One of my sisters has endured a lifetime of various abuses and trauma. But none of them qualify her as a true “victim.” She didn’t “survive” breast cancer or the alleged abuse of some adult male that she didn’t report for years. Like millions of others, she was a real victim of poverty. Why can’t the poor claim to be “surviving” poverty? No, it’s all about virtue signaling, and virtue signaling has very narrow parameters. Which our cockeyed society determines. Half the country could truly say #MeToo to surviving poverty or economic hardship. Some victims are more equal than others.