The FBI has a Woman Problem.

[sheshe2]

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A woman problem, a rape and abuse problem as they sweep it under the rug.

They are male dominated and they failed Christine Blasey Ford and failed the brave Olympic women that testified today. Their testimony was heartbreaking and the tears followed, not just them but every woman that has experienced abuse and that those that say, it could have been me.

Ford's testimony was never fully investigated, hundreds of leads ignored. Guess they made their decision, perhaps on their own or with WH pressure. She was called a liar so that a guilty man could be purchased, all debts cleared, to sit on SCOTUS to rule on women's bodies.

The Olympic women, they were very young girls, years of child abuse that was ignored, pushed aside and hidden. Aly Raisnnan said that it is something that they would live with for the rest of their lives, they all will. She said that she was exhausted, has been for years and there are times that she gets in the shower to wash her hair and has to sit on the floor of the shower to do so. There are times she can't take a 10 minute walk without utter despairing exhaustion. This is/was an olympic gold medal woman. Over two hundred complaints, mostly unrecognized.

Two hundred. We have once again let our women and girls down.

It needs to stop.

[joetheman]

1. The world has a woman problem. Men are in charge. nt

[sheshe2]

2. Yes.

Time to change that.

[Bettie]

7. Yep

that about covers it.

[malaise]

28. THIS

and it has to stop

[soldierant]

29. You might be surprised by how many

veterans, including Afhanistan and Iraq vets are or lean Democratic.

Heere's just one:

[DanieRains]

4. The FBI Exists To Keep Billionaires And Predators Safe

Am I the only one to notice this?

FBI interviewed 60 Epstein witnesses and sealed the files.

Sealed.

FBI couldn't find any laws broken by anyone working for the 7 largest banks in 2008.

The FBI is the mafia.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. You may have just opened the door. Send to Rachel, Joy Reid and Chris Hayes? Can't hurt.

I am not a conspiracy person, but what if even part of what you say is true? Comey, Wray, Rosenstein minimally dropped the ball in the last 4 years and cast huge doubts on their ability to administer justice, partly based on their party affiliation and actions taken (or not taken) during the Orange One's term. And will we ever see an un-redacted Mueller report?? I am losing faith.

[Captain Zero]

22. Pretty much how J Edgar Hoover set it up

nt

[questionseverything]

25. I'm afraid you're correct

It doesn’t seem to matter wether it’s democrats or republicans in the White House either

The gymnastics serial rapists were reported in 2015 when obama was in charge

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. Men need to be held accountable

And if they use thier dick as a weapon,disarm them and cut it off.


I have trauma because
Of evil men and the rage comes flooding back,the fear and helplessness.

When I was in a psych ward I got raped by another patient.

My therapist at the hospital,who years earlier diagnosed my trauma disorders was another male asshole covering his ass . He told me me I wanted it. I just about exploded all I managed to say was how could you say that,before I walked out and slammed the door in his face.

He said that after I had a horrible safe test done by a lady cop because I pressed charges. My life was in chaos at the time,I never knew if he was locked up in jail or not.

But what my ex therapist said to me is unforgivable.

Yet some men bad men would tell me the same thing.

Men like that need to feel what rape is like themselves and women tell him he asked for it. I bet his whining would be heard for miles.

He needs to lose his lisence to practice therapy.

[Ligyron]

24. I'm sorry you had to go through that and that the system failed you.

Every female I’ve been close friends or intimate with has a sexual assault story, some much worse than others. Every.last.one.of.them.

I can’t even imagine. I mean, I’ve been hit on by other males throughout my life but these were easy to just laugh off and I rather took it as a compliment. I suppose I’m lucky in that I don’t make anything close to a good victim.

But if I were somehow, i’d do everything within my power to not let that scum live in my head rent free.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

39. The thing that really sucks about PTSD

Is you could be fine not thinking about it at all then something that seems totally not related to it triggers you and you are right back there in milliseconds. It takes a lot of therapy to find out what caused the trigger because when you are going through a trigger or flashback most likely what started it has been forgotten in the emotional crisis.

I don't think about it willingly unless I am in therapy,but it sucks that your body remembers what you'd rather forget.

[mcar]

6. The testimony today was shocking

The FBI needs to clean up its act.

[SheltieLover]

8. Joe needs to clean house!

[Captain Zero]

23. Appoint a woman director of the FBI. It's time.

nt

[SheltieLover]

32. Sounds great to me!

[SheilaAnn]

31. Chris Wray needs to find another job, he's incompetent. n/t

[SheltieLover]

33. Imho, he is far sorse than incompetent.

Should have been gone long ago, imo.

But I trust Joe's judgment, so there is that.

[JohnSJ]

9. There are so many problems in so many areas with this. Why was a man involved in the examination of

these girls? Who on the Olympic Committee allowed that, and then ignored the victim’s pleas for help

Then to make maters worse when the FBI got involved, why was a man in the FBI involved in the questioning of these girls asking them intimate questions about the abuse, and then their complaints ignored by the FBI

They were abused by nassar, the Olympic committee, and the FBI, and a lot of people need to be held accountable for what happened to these girls

[sheshe2]

10. The young girls were not just questioned by a male agent...

They questioned them for hours in a hotel room. Rather intimidating for any abused woman to have to deal with that.

[JohnSJ]

27. I thought they named agent Jay Abbott and agent Michael Langeman who interviewed

gymnast McKayla Maroney, and then those agents lied about their accusations

[sheshe2]

36. Yes.

I read that as well.

I can't express how angry I am. No lawyer or family present. I don't know her age when she interviewed, yet she had to be pretty young.

I was just speaking about Aya's statement.

[JohnSJ]

38. Got it. Everything about this makes me sick

[sheshe2]

42. What I saw made me tear up.

I had to miss a lot of it, mom comes first. I had just started watching Bile's statement and she was crying. Such strong women. They are, crying isn't weakness it is a way to cleanse the dirt that someone covered them with.

[JohnSJ]

44. Yes

[Enter stage left]

11. If a mature male is convicted of sexual abuse, rape, or any other like charge against a minor female

I'm dead set AGAINST the death penalty...


BUT DEAD SET FOR CASTRATION!

[ancianita]

12. The FBI has a sexism problem.

Rule of Law enforcement has been a constitutional problem since the nation's founding.

52% of this nation has an ERA problem.

[kairos12]

13. That is my take as well.

[forgotmylogin]

14. It sounds like the FBI needs more women in the organization in general. n/t

[ancianita]

16. It's a start but it's not the silver bullet that will solve the larger structural problem.

The FBI is already 44% female.

Sexism is just one branch of patriarchal order.
Sexism rationalizes and justifies patriarchal norms which allow for unequal treatment of male-defined unequals.
What the FBI did is a passive form of misogyny, the branch of patriarchy that polices and enforces patriarchal norms, since it actually ignored women's claims, which is a form of sexist norm enforcement that presumes that enforcers have the option of taking or not taking seriously the harm claims of unequals.

Wray can "protest too much," and fire someone, but he won't end male prerogratives to do "mandated reporting," even though mandatory reporting is the law across 50 states. Sexism often attempts to make patriarchal social arrangements seem natural, good, or inevitable so that there appears to be no reason to resist them, and no reason to use rule of law.

Then when the sexist harm becomes too great, this is the kind of structurally embedded sexism that says, "Oh no! Those women were harmed? Oh, we will police ourselves right away! We got this, carry on."

[dlk]

15. Misogyny runs deep in our country

Until enough women wake up and unite to take significant action, nothing much will change. Too many men like things just the way they are.

[sheshe2]

17. Women are awake.

We need to have men wake the F up and follow our lead.

[spooky3]

20. Exactly right! Nt

[dlk]

21. I hope women are awake

In addition to being awake, we need women taking action. Men can keep up or take notes.

[sheshe2]

37. Ford and our athletes did just that.

They are still awaiting justice, Ford was denied.

[DallasNE]

18. Sounds Like A Gym Jordon Investigation n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

26. The carceral state has an accountability problem and it has never prioritized justice for those

who are marginalized.

[gab13by13]

34. More people than the FBI are to blame,

but they are to blame. Michigan State covered it up, Olympic committees and others covered it up.

The Republican governor of Pa. slow walked investigating Sandusky, assigned 1 rookie state cop with just a desk. At least people went to jail at Penn State and the NCAA punished them. Penn State had to provide millions of dollars to abused children's organizations, not that money fixed what was done. tO$U and Michigan State got a free pass.

[sheshe2]

40. Of course.

Many agencies are to blame for passing the buck back and forth, that was mentioned in the Judiciary hearing today.

However The FEDERAL Bureau is the highest ranking office that was leading the investigations. FEDERAL and they failed all these women/girls in every way. They actually LIED about what was said in the interviews. They lied! Bet they chuckled and said the girls were just PMSing, if they were even old enough at the time to be menstruating at the time.

What happened in Penn State was horrifying, yet the OP is about Ford and the Olympic athletes that testified today. All abuse is wrong, yet this OP is about the women that have received no justice other than Nassar jailed. It took 18 years to put him away.That was just a start. Nothing has been done to protect future athletes.

[niyad]

35. There are words, but most of them would net me a visit from these predator enablers.

[sheshe2]

41. Hugs

[niyad]

45. Hugs back.

[Stinky The Clown]

43. You are SO VERY RIGHT. K&R