FBI arrests US gymnastics academy coach accused of sexually abusing young girls on child porn charges
Submitted 6 days ago by Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com to crime@hilariouschaos.com
Submitted 6 days ago by Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com to crime@hilariouschaos.com
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
I normally hate to engage with this sort of content because, like, many obvious reasons and non obvious ones. But sometimes curiosity gets the better of me. And this quote:
"Gardner would ask girls if they were sexually active and call them “idiots, sluts, and whores.” "
I just…why is this particular form of creepiness so common? I see this a LOT on horny Internet communities like shudders NexusMods (I remember back when Skyrim mods weren’t all weird coomer garbage…) and also in a lot of the Reddit “jack off to celebrities” communities. Before you ask “y r u looking at these” - my friend and I have the (admittedly strange) pastime of finding and perusing these communities to basically laugh at their members and rage bait each other. Probably not the best use of time but it hit the spot in college. Anyways. It’s like people get a boner just by calling someone a slut, and it always strikes me as such a deranged maneuver. And what really interests me is that it’s usually coupled with a judgemental tone, you know? Like, fuck me, dude. Do you want them to be a slut or not? On the one hand you’re jacking off to calling this person a slut, but on the other hand you seem to legitimately hate sluts. It’s always struck me as such a foreign and disturbed sexual trait that I just can’t wrap my mind around. And I’m a pretty damn kinky and creative person. I mean, of course I get it, it’s like it’s hot that they’re slutty but you judge it on a “moral” level. But it just seems that such a kink would self-dissolve under the slightest bit of analysis. Like if nobody was a slut then that would put an end to your fun now wouldn’t it? The hypocrisy of that kind of garbage just drives me mad (Reminding myself of that Norm MacDonald hypocrisy joke here). I know you’re not supposed to kink shame, and I guess it’s not the kink of calling someone slutty I’m shaming here, but the hypocritical pairing of it with legitimately non-sexual dislike of sluttiness. It’s just soooo trashy. Of course it boils down to the dumbest monkey brain mentality imaginable: “I want everyone to be slutty for me but not for anyone else”. Such nasty egoism.
Anyways, what a stupid and silly thing for me to hone in on among the much worse things this guy has done, maybe even poor taste of me to go on this tangent but I’ve already written my essay so whatcha gonna do. But I think it’s interesting to note. It certainly supports my long-standing feelings that these people who get off on slut-hating have serious issues and should be avoided. Red-flag kink for me.
Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com 6 days ago
This was a rather interesting read for me as I had not thought about this connection much, thank you.
I find it amazing that a grown man and coach would call a teen girl a slut… Just wild, lol. Completely different headspace. And right to them. It’s just so wildly inappropriate, and it shows either complete social unawareness or inability to control his darker side…
It’s crazy that this just persisted since he began coaching in 2018. I mean, really, big red flags and the guy was allowed to stick around and do damage.