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Ok, this needs to end now. Y& #39;all are undermining the lives of girls as well as the lives of boys.
The facts:
-Coleman committed acts pertaining to revenge porn till he was 14. The age doesn& #39;t matter that much, but I don& #39;t know why you keep saying he was 12. https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1297224790403670017">https://twitter.com/thomascha...
The facts:
-Coleman committed acts pertaining to revenge porn till he was 14. The age doesn& #39;t matter that much, but I don& #39;t know why you keep saying he was 12. https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1297224790403670017">https://twitter.com/thomascha...
-Coleman also harassed women in recent years. One thought about taking out a restraining order
-This is not a case where he has built up a lifetime of public service between the bad acts and now. He has done nothing. We don& #39;t have anything to weight the bad acts against.
-This is not a case where he has built up a lifetime of public service between the bad acts and now. He has done nothing. We don& #39;t have anything to weight the bad acts against.
And here& #39;s what I keep thinking about. I was bullied a lot in middle school. Mostly about my looks. On one occasion two boys held me down in a movie theater while another grabbed my breasts.
As jerky as a lot of boys were most of them didn& #39;t do this.
As jerky as a lot of boys were most of them didn& #39;t do this.
I had two boyfriends in high school. One committed suicide and one is a person who I am bonded with to this day. Both were lovely people. I& #39;m grateful they were my 1st boyfriends. Boys aren& #39;t necessarily people who commit revenge porn behavior. That& #39;s actually rare.
Now, that& #39;s not to say that if someone does engage in revenge porn that they are irredeemable. They might very well be. But this isn& #39;t "boys will be boys" behavior. Don& #39;t reduce young men to this. It& #39;s not who they need to be.
So, if you do do something like this, assault a friend, commit revenge porn, etc, I think there& #39;s a lot of room for growth. But that doesn& #39;t mean you& #39;re worthy of public office 5 years later. You& #39;ve got to do something to show us you& #39;ve grown.
Either way, I really need people to stop acting like "boo hoo revenge porn." That& #39;s actually a serious sexual offense. One that is deeply damaging to girls. One that most boys don& #39;t commit. And one that we shouldn& #39;t normalize
I knew a lot of bullies. Most of them didn& #39;t do that
I knew a lot of bullies. Most of them didn& #39;t do that
And I want to say again: I knew so many good guys in middle school & high school. A lot of them did shitty things. But a lot of them also were kind and caring and willing to grow. We should try to be sending the message that all boys can be like that.
P.S. I mentioned that one of my boyfriends in high school is now deceased. He died by suicide (after we dated, while we were friends). Coleman& #39;s recent callousness re: suicide is reason enough to disqualify him.
