Marc Maron's audience

 A school board is receiving backlash from parents. These are parents of high school students who were not being protected from predators. Here is a video of a recent board meeting in St. Helens, OR:

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

These teenagers in St. Helens had predators teaching them, predators placed in positions of power over them, while attending school. These parents have every right to be angry. Children should be protected from predators at school.

A predator enters our US school districts every holiday season. I have young family members whose children have seen this video in their classrooms. Children have no idea how to spot predators. When adults are presented to children in schools, those adults are viewed as safe. No child understands what a 61 yr-old is thinking or doing. Who we allow to be seen as safe by our kids is our responsibility, not our our kids' responsibility. This is why those parents in St. Helens are angry. Predators were allowed access to their children, by a school board that has a lot to answer for.

If a student brings home a note for their parents to sign, so their child can see Marc Maron speak to a high school drama class in some US school district, those parents won't know Mr. Maron has spoken of his desire to have sex with teen girls for the past 35 years. Parents won't know how Marc Maron exposed his genitalia on set in Canada. That note they sign may include an NDA, which parents may not understand, either.  

Our children are not being protected from predators. Whether it's Warren Jeffs arranging child marriages, or Marc Maron getting close to and grooming girls and claiming it is them who are "enamored" with him, it is all the same predatory behavior.  

When adult men obsess for decades about having sex with teen girls, they should not be presented as safe to children. 

A Thank You to parents

"Quiet on Set," multiple episodes of SVU, Bones episode 3 of season 2, "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields," are all examples of media bringing attention to the way adults sexualize and exploit children. At the same time such programs are being produced and aired, predators are still being marketed to children, and children are being placed in harm's way.

In this patriarchal society, adult men are allowed to get away with exploiting underage girls, and the girls are assigned the blame.  Soon, Storyline Online, a SAG AFTRA foundation program, will once again promote Marc Maron's Thanksgiving book-reading created specifically for children, a reading performed by a 61 yr-old man who has publicly spoken of his desire to have sex with teen girls for the last 35 years. Maron has recently spoken on his WTF podcast of his current interest in visiting high school drama programs, and voiced an interest in children's books. He has actively groomed teen girls from the stage, online, and in his personal life.  He claims these girls are the ones enamored with him, and has said he "cannot say no," when they respond to his grooming.  He has 13-stepped teen girls in AA, and knows AA can do nothing about it.  He admitted, in an Instagram Live, to illegally exposing his genitalia to a crew member on set, two years ago in Canada.

This self-proclaimed predator is growing his access to children, and no one is protecting the sexualized girls he will continue to groom and exploit. Every SVU episode, the Epstein saga, the atrocities at Nickelodeon, none of this media attention makes any real difference, in a society where predators like Maron are given free access to children, and actively marketed to them.  Sexualized children in our society are fed to this man, and predators just like him, with a wink and a smile.

I hope more parents continue to find my posts, and realize they do not want to let their children believe this man is safe. I will continue posting, because every parent or guardian or concerned adult I have reached, may have meant one less potential victim made available to this predator.  I thank each of the concerned adults who has read my words, and taken steps to protect a child they know.  It makes a real difference.  It matters.

Relentless

A few days ago, I was asked if I had finally given up on pointing out the predatory behavior displayed by Marc Maron these past three and a half decades.  I have not.  

People who get away with predatory behavior, will continue to do whatever they can get away with doing.  Mr. Maron is going to continue grooming and re-exploitating young survivors of CSA.  He is going to continue finding ways to expose his genitalia.  He is going to draw more children into his fanbase, as he continues to be marketed directly to them.  His book reading for children will be shown in a lot of schools in the next couple of weeks.  He is going to continue leaving mentally compromised young females in worse condition, when he is through using them.  

I will continue to point out Mr. Maron's behavior.  There are children suffering sexual abuses this moment, who this 61 yr-old man is going to groom and re-exploit.   No one spoke up for me, when this re-exploitation cycle dug its claws into me at the age of thirteen.  I will never stop speaking out.  

Life is full of discouraging times.  The only way to change anything, is to relentlessly keep being the person who will never give up.  

I will never give up.