Prescient Hindsight

Sexualized children are not being helped in our society.  My life was directly affected by this failure, and sadly, this continues to be the truth for children currently being sexually exploited and trafficked.  This is why I decided to speak out publicly in this blog about a specific predator, starting on April 26, 2023.  Until people start to name and call out, in real time, the predators who target and re-exploit sexualized children, such children will continue to experience lives subject to continuing re-exploitation. That hindsight everyone suddenly says they have after viewing programs like "Quiet on Set," will never be transposed into timely protection and prevention, unless people finally decide to call out predatory behavior, as it is occurring. 

This is a summation of a few of Marc Maron's current words and behaviors that are red flags.  Paying attention in real time is the only way to protect current potential victims. 

Maron has recently spoken of his desire to attend high school plays, and has shown interest is children's books and growing his underage audience, and has just this month spoken of saying he thinks he would probably have been a teacher or a therapist, if he had not gone into comedy.  (This was on his recent "Ask Marc Anything" WTF+ episode, behind a paywall.)  A man who has spent 35 years purposely targeting mentally compromised teens who suffer from SI, SH, and substance abuse issues, in order to sexually exploit them, is not a person who has any business being around any youth, especially those in need of professional help.  A 60 yr-old man who has, on countless occasions for over 3 decades, publicly spoken of his desire to fuck teen girls, has no business being marketed to children.  A man who grooms underage girls, then claims they are "lunatics" who are "enamored" with him, and he is unable to say "no" to them, is displaying red flags.

Sadly, therapists/teachers/ministers/helpers who target sexualized teens are able to steal the lives of CSA/trafficking survivors like me, and get away with this regularly.  My life is an example of how those in the "helper" professions so often get away with re-exploiting people who need to be protected from such exploitation, not subjected to more of it.  Those in "helper" professions are often allowed to get away with sexually exploiting damaged young people.  Marc Maron has no compunction about saying he would want to be a therapist or teacher or social worker.  No wonder I was re-exploited over and over, and was then blamed for how I was harmed by the very people our society pays to help people with histories like mine.  Predators like Maron often choose those very professions where they will have access to such vulnerable youth.  Maron can spend 30 plus years obsessed with teen girls, and still feel comfortable saying he would have made a good teacher or therapist.  

Maron has made a substantial part of his living exploiting and blaming young victims, getting access to groom and blame such victims in his work, garnering laughs at the expense of these mentally compromised girls, joking about them and berating them from the stage, and this predatory behavior has been accepted.  He is marketed to children, and this is not viewed as problematic. Vulnerable youth are actively being groomed and exploited by this predator.  Once he is done with them, and his victims are left suicidal, he shows no remorse or concern.  He has not once shown any compassion for those like myself, who are damaged by predators like him.  His reaction the past 2 years to my words shows exactly how he regards sexualized and traumatized teen girls.  When/if any of his victims finally speak up, people will claim ignorance, or blame the victims, but there has been ample evidence for the last three and a half decades, and nothing is being done to protect young people from this predator.  Every new generation of youth Maron targets could be protected, but no one one is doing that for any of them.  

Maron is free to speak about his dick in front of kids. He can brag that he has enough "game" to have convinced a number of much younger girls to get abortions, yet also brag about never using condoms.  He will not get a vasectomy, yet he does not want children.  He has bragged about giving herpes to one of his exes.  This 60 yr-old man is targeting mentally compromised teens, and this is what he exposes them to.  This is all out there, in his IG Lives, his specials, his IFC TV show, his Intros and podcasts, his interviews and late night appearances.  

Maron wrote and will be directing and starring in an independent movie this fall. There is no requirement for Intimacy Coordinators in the US, and Maron has already shown his ability to get around the safety such Coordinators are supposed to bring to sets, when he exposed his genitalia on the set of Delores Roach in Canada. Whatever "dark subject matter" Maron's script is about, the darkness of what he is capable of getting away with on set is as destructive as anything done by every other known predator in the entertainment industry. Maron's victims are not being protected, and it isn't because his predatory behavior is hidden. It's just been blatantly ignored for 35 years.  

No one is protecting sexualized children from this known predator.  But I'm damn well gonna keep doing my best to speak out.