Endangered

Teen girls are killing themselves at an unprecedented rate.  PBS article

At 17, I tried to speak up when a girl tried to kill herself.  Our SDA school principal had sexually exploited her, as he had done to me, and other teen girls with "daddy issues."  I told the Upper Columbia Conference SDA president what that principal had done.  That Conference president got off on my words, then told me he could do nothing, and hung up the phone.

I will not ever be silent again.  This 60 yr-old comedian, Marc Maron, is preying on girls in a sexual manner that leaves them suicidal.  Teen girls, already at higher risk of suicide than ever, are being endangered by this man.

Since 1989, Maron has publicly groomed and fucked teens.  Girls with specific issues he has joked about targeting.  Issues like suicidal ideation, compromised mental health, and substance abuse issues.  He has sponsored these girls in AA.  Last year, he exposed his genitals to a girl on the set of Delores Roach. 

I will keep speaking, until this predator is stopped.

As for Maron's words, they speak for him quite clearly:

-----From an interview with Hadley Freeman,  2018:

On his podcast, Maron has been excellent at calling comedians out for unacceptable behaviour. He has confronted people about joke-stealing and taken others to task for homophobia. So I wonder if he regrets any of his own past jokes. In 1999, he appeared on David Letterman and said he knew he was getting older when teenage girls stopped looking at him as a sexual being. “Don’t misunderstand: I’m not saying I want to have sex with teenage girls… I’m lying: of course I want to have sex with teenage girls. Come on, doesn’t everyone? That’s why there’s a law.” In 2014, he was interviewed on US TV and asked about his reputation for dating much younger women. “Yeah, resolving daddy issues since 1989. I’m here to help the young ladies,” he replied.  

But when a male fan wrote to Maron recently to suggest that maybe he should take that Letterman clip down from his website, he was outraged.

“What am I, a personal totalitarian state? I’m going to have to start erasing my history? I don’t think it’s an inappropriate joke. I mean, the idea that men want to have sex with teenage girls – really, are you shocked? It says a lot that somebody – that a man – would reach out and say, ‘It’s not a good look to have that joke up.’ What is happening?” he asks.-----

Guardian Interview with Hadley Freeman

-----From Maron's WTF Podcast dispatch, 10/16/2023:

"I’m suddenly feeling okay about performing for teenagers."-----