If Interested, the "Sister Survivors" Are Being Honored Tonight At the ESPY's..

I know this because, unfortunately, my daughter is friends with a couple of the young ladies there.

Good for them, though. There can never be too much awareness or reminders.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I know this because, unfortunately, my daughter is friends with a couple of the young ladies there.

Good for them, though. There can never be too much awareness or reminders.

While that is true, I have conflicted emotions over ESPN trying to be the good guy after the Lavigne piece and their own sexual misconduct scandal. Paying for every Nassar victim to attend seems like conflict of interest and being the news instead of reporting the news.

Thoughts and prayers

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I know this because, unfortunately, my daughter is friends with a couple of the young ladies there.

Good for them, though. There can never be too much awareness or reminders.

While that is true, I have conflicted emotions over ESPN trying to be the good guy after the Lavigne piece and their own sexual misconduct scandal. Paying for every Nassar victim to attend seems like conflict of interest and being the news instead of reporting the news.

good point.

I'm sure Danica Patrick is a nice young lady but a good host she is not.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I'm sure Danica Patrick is a nice young lady but a good host she is not.

She should stick to wrecking cars.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I know this because, unfortunately, my daughter is friends with a couple of the young ladies there.

Good for them, though. There can never be too much awareness or reminders.

ESPN got this one dead on. Pretty powerful presentation.
Just finished reading this-

http://www.espn.com/espnw/feature/24078028/olympian-aly-raisman-change-way-our-society-views-women

It’s long but there’s some pretty powerful passages in there.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I know this because, unfortunately, my daughter is friends with a couple of the young ladies there.

Good for them, though. There can never be too much awareness or reminders.

While that is true, I have conflicted emotions over ESPN trying to be the good guy after the Lavigne piece and their own sexual misconduct scandal. Paying for every Nassar victim to attend seems like conflict of interest and being the news instead of reporting the news.

From what I’ve seen of the espys and on twitter the presentation was powerful and it meant so much to the survivors.

steveschneider wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

While that is true, I have conflicted emotions over ESPN trying to be the good guy after the Lavigne piece and their own sexual misconduct scandal. Paying for every Nassar victim to attend seems like conflict of interest and being the news instead of reporting the news.

From what I’ve seen of the espys and on twitter the presentation was powerful and it meant so much to the survivors.

I managed to stay up for it. It was well done.

. "I think a lot of people don't understand that this is so much bigger than Larry Nassar," she says. "He thrived for decades. If someone thrives for decades, there are people who knew about it and did nothing. There were so many people who let us down."

“When she speaks about her abuser, she rarely pauses or fights back tears; she describes him dispassionately, as though he's a stranger or a character in a book. She's aware of how unflappable she seems. "A lot of people, when they meet me, they think it's easy for me -- that I'm always that person speaking in court," she says. "But that's not how I am." She prepared to face Nassar by looking at photos of him; when he stared back at her, his eyes blank, she didn't flinch. But the confrontation left her shell-shocked. Afterward, when she and her mother, Lynn, went to lunch, she collapsed on the table at the restaurant, her head pounding with pain.”

That ESPN magazine article was a pretty powerful read.