Pat Down

 About a year ago, I saw a video of a male officer patting down a female child alongside a road.  The child looked to be about 10, and was handcuffed.  This was in an urban area, with bystanders and at least one cellphone recording the incident. 

Since then, I have seen ICE violently knocking women down, groping girls, taking cuffed women into porta-potties and restrooms, and menacing women, even murdering one as she tried to drive away.  The accusations of sexual assault and rape are growing, as people are being kidnapped and detained in facilities that will go down in history for the atrocities taking place inside.  There are children being treated in horrendous ways, right this minute, by folks being paid with our tax dollars.  These children will live lives directly affected by what is being done to them right now.  As bad as you can imagine it might be, trust me, it's worse.

My mind goes back to the child from a year ago, the one being groped by law enforcement while she was handcuffed.  How many old men like Marc Maron will groom and harm her for years, because of what is happening to her right now?  She will be blamed, she will be told she knew what she was doing, she may even be told she was making her own strong feminist choices, and she will accept all of this, because society allows this to be what she is taught.  When old men want to use this child, she will be the perfect target.  

It is hard to find hope, when people keep excusing the behavior of sexual predators.   Whether it's maga excusing Epstein, or Maron fans excusing his obsession with teen girls, it's all the same.  Sexualized children are never protected from those who target them.

Denial and Thanksgiving

My father denied food to me when I was little.  I wrote more about that in a blog post some years back: Three Views.  It was destructive in so many ways.  I was homeless when my oldest son was three.   The unbelievably wrenching stress of trying to keep my child fed was beyond description, although I tried to describe it a bit in this blog post from my earlier blogging days: Alf.  The look on my father's face as he made me stand by the table and watch him eat, while not allowing me to eat, is a look I am having to see on an awful lot of people's faces, as they enjoy knowing food supplement benefits are being denied.

Marc Maron's Thanksgiving-themed book reading for children is making its annual rounds.   The way his fans deny his own predatory words and behavior for the last three and a half decades, as they find it somehow appropriate that this man should have access to children, as they see nothing dangerous in allowing little girls to view this man as safe, is further proof to me that predators are going to continue to be protected.

Happy fucking Thanksgiving 

Maron quotes

 

Maron's response to Epstein (repost from a past Instagram Live))

 https://youtube.com/shorts/sZgEQNDgWK4?feature=shared

Witness

Gloria Allred recently held a press conference with her client, Alicia Arden, who is a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein.  Here is the PBS News Hour clip:

https://youtu.be/UmJoLyxG2H4?feature=shared

In this clip, the pain Alicia Arden is currently experiencing can be seen.  It made my chest hurt, as I watched Alicia speak.  She cannot escape her personal trauma being devoured by the masses on every media platform.   And the only person doing time for crimes against Alicia and other survivors is about to be pardoned by the leader of our country.  

I have experienced the jarring sensation of seeing my old predator sda school principal show up in a friend's social media post, or discovering that old principal once belonged to a Facebook group for sexual abuse survivors, where he was offering comfort to teen girls in crisis, just as he had once done to me.  It does something internally, to see one's abuser freely grooming and abusing others, while they never had to answer for what they have already been doing for decades.  It hurts in ways that are hard to put into words.

I am currently reminded of the young crew member from the set of Delores Roach a few summers back.  Marc Maron indecently exposed his genitals to this young crew member.  (https://sighlentz.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-real-predator.html)  Maron is currently on a publicity tour for a number of things he is featured in, which means he pops up all over the place online.   That crew member will see him, and each time she does, she will relive the fact that this entertainer knew he could illegally commit a sex crime against her, and there was nothing she could do about it.  He continues on with his life, being marketed to children in some of his work, and she has to live with the knowledge that nobody will protect her, or anyone like her, from this man.  He is free to break the law, and she must live with it, while being forced to see him publicly speak on programs like Fresh Air and morning news shows or late night programing.  That is how predators in a patriarchy leave their victims feeling:  powerless.   Those who are exploited by celebrity predators, must experience the pain of seeing their perpetrators in media, which makes it that much worse.

My chest hurts when I think of the pain Alicia Arden, and all of Epstein/Maxwell's living survivors are currently experiencing.   And my chest hurts for those who have been exploited by Marc Maron, and are being reminded of him during his current publicity cycle.  

Pardon?

Since my first post in April of 2023 regarding the predatory behavior of Marc Maron, I have been in touch with a number of survivors of CSA, CP, and trafficking.   These past few weeks have been disheartening for all of us.  From the events in the Combs trial, to the recent meetings granted to a convicted sex trafficker, all of it is a brutal reminder of our place in society.  

When I first posted about Marc Maron, another comedian let me know that "if these girls want help, they know where to go."  This comedian knows what Maron has been up to for three and a half decades.   For godsake, she knows what young female comics have had to go thru when they used to open for a Maron show.  She simply doesn't care.

The lip service that gets paid to exploited victims is bullshit.   The perpetrators are rarely charged, much less convicted.  Some of them can brag about their behavior, and then be marketed to children.  

There are many survivors of Epstein and Maxwell who are willing to speak about what happened.   That takes a kind of bravery most people can't comprehend.  But who is being met with, and given "queen for a day" immunity?  Who is going to get a pardon?  Ghislaine fucking Maxwell.  

I appreciate this video from Suri Crowe on MTN, where voices that matter can be heard:

The voices that matter

Lock the Gaetz

 Here is a recent post attributed to Matt Gates:

This post only exists in screenshots, now, as the "original" was allegedly removed, but this sentiment is held by senators who defended Roy Moore, by attorneys who defended Jeffrey Epstein, and by Gaetz himself.  It is also a sentiment held by Marc Maron:

In a patriarchy, right or left is no different, when it comes to the sexualization and exploitation of female children.  Marc Maron made his own thoughts about the Epstein case clear in an Instagram Live:

Epstein

Virginia Giuffre is gone, after living a life directly affected by the behavior of predatory men. Her life was filled with pain and abandonment, grief and loss, blame and misunderstanding.   She had no one.  My heart hurts for her.

Children will soon be watching another movie that includes a snake voiced by Marc Maron.  They are having a sexual predator marketed to them.  No one is protecting kids, right or left.

Just a little PSA reminder

Lip service years later does nothing for children being groomed now.  Those who know what Marc Maron has done for decades, are culpable for every child he ends up grooming and re-exploiting.  Those who market this sexual predator to children are choosing to endanger children.  Anyone ignoring the predatory behavior of this comedian is directly involved in harming damaged young people, and endangering children.

Every person who is frustrated by the way so many people ignore the behavior of our current leader, please ask yourself if you aren't just as capable of ignoring harmful/illegal behavior, when it's on a smaller scale, and involves someone you choose to view as above the law.

"All men are pro choice. ..." - Marc Maron

Marc Maron recently shared a bit he has done regarding abortion.  In a number of his Instagram Lives, he says he refuses to use any form of protection, even after speaking about how he gave one of his exes herpes.  In the intro to his podcast from June 27, 2022, episode 1343, he claims any man with "game" has had to deal with convincing someone to get an abortion. And he continues to groom and fuck girls with mental and emotional issues who are of child-bearing age. A 61 yr-old man who does not want children does not have "game," he has a real problem with being a responsible, much older, adult. His obvious responsible choice would be to have a vasectomy, and stop targeting much younger girls suffering from serious emotional issues and addictions.

Here is his recent Instagram post regarding abortion, which he captions "All men are pro choice":

Instagram post

(If, for any reason, this reel is removed, it can be viewed on my YouTube account, which has no sound, but the captions are visible:  https://youtube.com/shorts/GjkkLEwvjUY?feature=share)

Here is the podcast intro where he refers to men who have "game," starting at 2:50:

WTF, episode 1343, June 27, 2022

Mr. Maron is a sexual predator who shares similar traits with other known predators who prey on teen girls, predators who purposely target the very girls suffering from serious issues that lead to lives of constant re-exploitation, where the abuse and societal blame lead to nothing but more devastation (rip Virginia Giuffre).  Mr. Maron has bragged onstage about wanting sex with teen girls since 1989. His words mirror a phone conversation donald trump had with Howard Stern about Lindsey Lohan when she was still a teen, in an example of this predatory behavior that destroys lives of girls like I was, survivors who suffer from a number of issues that predators purposely target.  Predators like Marc Maron should not be marketed to children, or placed in any positions of power.  (Here are trump's words, starting at 11:43: 

Meidas Touch, Trump's Terrible Secrets, starting at 11:43)

Two years ago today...

 Two years ago today I made this post regarding Marc Maron's predatory behavior:

A Real Predator