This is Just Bad News Week

[missizzy]

We've been aware for most of the year that there are things horribly wrong in pairs skating especially, the kind of thing that rape culture facilitates in that kind of setup especially. Still, yesterday was a painful blow. At the beginning of the day, Morgan Cipres, Sylvia Fontana, and John Zimmerman were people everyone liked. (John Coughlin, at least, had had one black mark on his record already.) Now we know them to have done the unforgivable to at least one girl, and probably more. And who knows how many more people in skating have done such things. There will likely be more painful truths to come. At least we must hope for them.
Of course, that wasn't the biggest news yesterday. Except that for all the talk of history happening with the articles of impeachment, it was now the inevitable next line in a drama that must now play out. I've heard the criticisms the Democrats should've charged Trump for all his crimes, but I think that would've been all too easy for the Republicans to use against them after the acquittal, if they can use them to overwhelm people's minds and make them doubt the truth. With possibly the future of humanity itself at stake, you can't blame Pelosi for remaining calculating.
Current participating in the YouTube boycott. It's relieving not to watching any skating right now anyway, though it does mean I'll have to wait to Saturday to watch even the end of the opening battle of the latest Critical Role episode. On the other hand, I have given in and bought Disney+. Watching the first episode of the The Mandolorian was a sweet relief after a very long day.

Comments

[sylvaine]

Wait, why are we boycotting YouTube this time?

[missizzy]

They are now threatening to delete accounts which aren't "commercially viable" in a clause that could give them an excuse to go after just about anybody.

[sylvaine]

... well. Ugh. >_<

[dewline]

Yeah, that's just plain creepy-wrong.