re: McKayla Maroney - #MeToo

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I had flown all day and night with the team to get to Tokyo. He’d given me a sleeping pill for the flight, and the next thing I know, I was all alone with him in his hotel room getting a ‘treatment.’

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Not to make light of the situation, but how did he transport her from the flight, through the airport, into the car, through the hotel lobby and into the room?

I've got this whole "Weekend at Bernie's" visual in my head.

And I mean, she went from fairly unknown young teenager to pretty famous and desired starlet in a relatively short span

So plenty of things could have impacted her, but I can't imagine long term sexual abuse didn't contribute

This is an actual #metoo I believe and i consider legitimate

Sad that all the other attention whores make this story less believable

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You've obviously never been drugged.

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Sleeping pill? I've taken Ambien before and

I really don't know, hence the "not to make light of the situation".

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think we can all agree it's a little of both

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Absolutely. And they know they have you checkmated. That's the worst part. No one is going to call these people out on social media. Who would take the chance of berating an actual victim?

I saw a story or two about serious abuse and I'm glad these women finally have a voice or boldness or whatever to speak up and do something about it.

And it's sick. Child abuse and rape are horrendous actions that just frick a person's life and psyche up basically forever.

Which is why it's so infuriating to read the story's like: a guy hit on me and I didn't like it #metoo. A guy at work said he liked my dress #metoo.

You have children in Hollywood being raped and young women in Hollywood being sexual abused and you go make a Facebook background about how much attention you want because a guy at a bar said hello? frick you.

It's the equivalent of me starting a movement to bring attention to domestic violence with a story like: My dad yelled at me once for not doing my chores. #domesticviolence

Or

I told my wife yesterday I didn't feel like cooking dinner #spousalabuse

It detracts from the overall issue and belittles real victims.

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possibly the victims have finally found enough strength to reveal what happened to them.

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Because of facebook?

I don't see much "revealing" other than making this vague abstract claim. It's the same thing as posting on your facebook, "OMG I can't believe this happened!"

You wanna make a claim, then back it up!

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I think we can all agree it's a little of both. Some women can't pass up the chance to get attention. Others may actual feel emboldened to finally say something that's been internalized.

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Absolutely.

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I'm not saying nothing happened

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The guy is a convicted pedophile already. So yeah.

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Pretty narrow minded way of looking at this

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How is it narrow minded to explore 2 different possibilities? I'd argue that it's much more narrow minded to take everything at face value and believe it.