He was 14 and should have known better. Where were his parents? A 4 year old? There are many a kid today that have to register as pedophiles for the same actions. After they have served time in jail or counseling. It just did not happen once but with several girls including his own sisters. May be 19 is discounting the supervision needed to raise these children. In fact, these kids were home schooled. Did he and his siblings get the correct sex education by their parents? Something is lacking in the parenting or the ideology of their beliefs for this to happen. I still have a difficult time with their professing condemnation on others’ houses when they needed to be home taking care of their own.
A sexual predator that is a good friend of the Republican party gets caught in a scandal and his police record is destroyed at the request of a judge. There is nothing at all slimy about that.
This is a textbook study in how the rape culture works, how entire communities conspire to abet and protect sexual predators while silencing and retraumatizing victims.
Josh Duggar did not make “mistakes.” He sexually preyed on multiple girls while they slept. And then he got away with it, because virtually everyone else around him was invested in making sure that he would.
An entire community, that grew bigger year by year, rallied behind a sexual predator to protect him. And now they stand behind him still, talking about his repeated predation as “mistakes.”
Sexual assault is not “a mistake.”
But certainly that’s the way it must be framed for parents, church leaders, police, members of the community, in-laws, a wife, television executives, and now fans to speak in grave tones about the redemptive forgiveness of god and to convince themselves that it was just a blip in an otherwise exemplary life—while diligently ignoring the profound trauma of Josh Duggar’s victims and the secondary trauma caused by a lack of justice lingering under the heavy shadow of his carefully maintained public image as a model of virtue.
He was 14 and should have known better. Where were his parents? A 4 year old? There are many a kid today that have to register as pedophiles for the same actions. After they have served time in jail or counseling. It just did not happen once but with several girls including his own sisters. May be 19 is discounting the supervision needed to raise these children. In fact, these kids were home schooled. Did he and his siblings get the correct sex education by their parents? Something is lacking in the parenting or the ideology of their beliefs for this to happen. I still have a difficult time with their professing condemnation on others’ houses when they needed to be home taking care of their own.
A sexual predator that is a good friend of the Republican party gets caught in a scandal and his police record is destroyed at the request of a judge. There is nothing at all slimy about that.
This is a textbook study in how the rape culture works, how entire communities conspire to abet and protect sexual predators while silencing and retraumatizing victims.
Josh Duggar did not make “mistakes.” He sexually preyed on multiple girls while they slept. And then he got away with it, because virtually everyone else around him was invested in making sure that he would.
An entire community, that grew bigger year by year, rallied behind a sexual predator to protect him. And now they stand behind him still, talking about his repeated predation as “mistakes.”
Sexual assault is not “a mistake.”
But certainly that’s the way it must be framed for parents, church leaders, police, members of the community, in-laws, a wife, television executives, and now fans to speak in grave tones about the redemptive forgiveness of god and to convince themselves that it was just a blip in an otherwise exemplary life—while diligently ignoring the profound trauma of Josh Duggar’s victims and the secondary trauma caused by a lack of justice lingering under the heavy shadow of his carefully maintained public image as a model of virtue.