{"id":517,"date":"2011-11-10T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=517"},"modified":"2011-11-11T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:34:12","slug":"remedial-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/remedial-masculinity-517.htm","title":{"rendered":"Remedial Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.pennlive.com\/pasports\/photo\/9917290-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>There\u2019s my daddy. Let me ask him what I should do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mike McQueary, the 28-year-old aspiring coach at Penn State, \u00a0the\u00a0 one who saw Sandusky butt-fucking a ten-year-old boy, left the scene of the crime and called his daddy. McQueary needs to take remedial masculinity courses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/deegeesbb.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/10\/doing-the-right-thing-jerry-sandusky-and-you\/\">DeeGee<\/a> suggests this as a scenario that should be studied in such a class:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"EN\">If you need a reminder of what to do if you\u00a0walk into a shower area and find a grown man thrusting behind a boy\u00a0bracing\u00a0with his arms\u00a0against a wall, you could do worse than the following.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: Move away from the boy. I\u2019m talking to you old man. Stand back. Do it now.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Man: Aw, come on, we\u2019re just horsing around.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: Shut up and move away from the boy. Kid? Kid, look at me. Turn around and look at me. Go get dressed. You\u2019re going to the hospital.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Man: Hospital? For what?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: SHUT YOUR FACE.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Man: Oh, you\u2019re big stuff now. Is that it? You think you\u2019ve got something on me? Me? Don\u2019t make me laugh. You know who I am.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You:\u00a0I don\u2019t know you. The man I thought I knew isn\u2019t here.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Man: Stop the innocent act. You don\u2019t know me? Good one.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You:\u00a0Kid, you need help over there? Let\u2019s go. Let\u2019s get out\u00a0of here.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Man: What\u2019s the hurry. He\u2019s not late, he\u2019s staying\u00a0in my basement room.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: Not tonight, pal, and not ever again. Not anyone.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Man: What\u2019s that supposed to mean. You know what you signed on for, don\u2019t you? If you want to move up the career\u00a0ladder here,\u00a0just walk out that door. You can do it. I\u2019ll have\u00a0a recommendation\u00a0for you on my desk in the morning.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: (picking\u00a0up a trash can) Kid, wait over by the door. I\u2019ll be right there.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Man: You don\u2019t have to take him. I like him.\u00a0You can have a different one.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: (take the trash can into the shower\u00a0for the sort of beating that crumbles the steel can and drops the man to the tile floor, then put the smashed can against his head and kick until your leg gets tired. Leave with the\u00a0boy.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Kid: Did you hurt Mr. Sandusky.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: Did he hurt you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Kid: Yes he did, again.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: He won\u2019t again. Do you like that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Kid: Yes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: You\u2019re not a throw away.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Kid: What?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: Nothing.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Kid: I don\u2019t\u00a0feel so good.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">You: Neither do\u00a0I,\u00a0kid, neither do\u00a0I.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">McQueary will be coaching Saturday &#8211; with a name that is custom made for mockery. I wonder if there will be a riot at the stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjuhawknews.com\/features\/knights-of-columbus-rise-again-1.1016582#.Trwxd_QaMsR\">Paterno<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=2519&amp;dat=19830425&amp;id=qapdAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=Vl0NAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=1967,3816880\">Sandusky <\/a>are good Catholics and members of the Knights of Columbus (which honored him) and imitated the priests and bishops who taught them by example how to act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Yes, I am bitter &#8211; I am\u00a0bitter\u00a0about the weak being sacrificed to the\u00a0convenience\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0powerful and\u00a0the\u00a0entertainment of the masses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">UPDATE<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Board of Trustees has more balls than the\u00a0entire\u00a0Penn State football staff. They have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/breaking\/mc-penn-state-trustees-turnaround-20111110,0,6022509.story\">banned<\/a> McQueary\u00a0from\u00a0the Saturday game &#8211; now if they would only fire him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<blockquote><p><a id=\"OREDU000049\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"The Pennsylvania State University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/topic\/education\/colleges-universities\/the-pennsylvania-state-university-OREDU000049.topic\">Penn  State<\/a>&#8216;s Board of Trustees have asked the university&#8217;s head football coach to  keep Mike McQueary, the assistant coach at the center of a child sex scandal,  off the field during Saturday&#8217;s nationally-televised game against Nebraska,  according to one of the trustees.<\/p>\n<p>The board does not plan to fire McQueary or ask him to step down, according  to the trustee, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of  the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-517\" data-postid=\"517\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-517 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s my daddy. 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