DaveMatthew
Bring in Peter
99% of all men are not elite athletes. 99% of all men do not have women throwing themselves at them. 99% of all men struggle to find a small number of sexual mates in their lives. As a result, the only answer they understand is no. And are pleasantly surprised when the answer is yes.
The Olympics hands out ~ 10,000 condoms to ~ 4500 male athletes. 2 weeks. Do you think that any 45000 males in society would need 10,000 condoms in 2 weeks? heck, they would not need it in 2 life times. factor in the happily married, the uninterested, the purposefully celibate. The die-hard who is focused on sports, the shy, the backwards. And those 10,000 condoms went to about 1000 male athletes.
Perhaps you should educate yourself and read the many articles and books written by VIPs on their sexual habits. Perhaps you will see the world they run in is different. And as more women throw themselves at them, it becomes that much harder to distinguish willing from not. Maybe you need to read Espo's or Magic or Wilts books. At the time of his death Jim Morrison was dealing with 16 paternity suits. Do some approximating and you will realize that he may have slept with 500-600 women. He was dead at 27. Do the math on how many women a year for the 6-7 years of being a rock star.
The 15 year old and the 18 year old can take forever to come to grips. Trauma is not easy to overcome. And her stresses are not to be minimized to dismissed.
The issue is: as time rolls in, we: society have to adjudicate. Have to render judgement. And as time moves on, it becomes more and more difficult. And accusations become more and more difficult to prove, yet more and more damning to the accused. He/She will be in a position of having to prove innocence, rather than we proving guilt. As time moves on, we no longer judge facts, but judge sentimentality and societal anger. Coming off the heels of the draft incident, coming off the heels of the me too movement and Bill Cosby. We are now very safely in the "guilty until proven innocent" mode.
Gagne may be guilty as guilty can be. But a young junior aged player, having been drafted in the second round in a small town is a rock star. It does not allow him to rape anyone. But we do not live his life and do not know what it was like. And must always presume innocence until we can prove guilt. Must give the accused the benefit of the doubt and must consider the 100 different issues.
Panarin was accused...Patrick Kane was accused... I take you consider both of them guilty. Or should we have condemn them blindly as you seem to feel.
Please Solomon, get off of the mountain of righteousness. It is awfully crowded up there. And most of its residents are hypocrites.
This tops your COVID posts in terms of being non-sensical. No reason to respond here.
