So, Joe Paterno, who just a week ago, claimed he did not know what to do when one of his subordinates was caught sexually abusing children; the scandal just recently having ended his career, died from lung cancer on Sunday. I know I will sound like a mean old trollette who should just shut up and go under a bridge, but I am increasingly SICKENED by how many people have seem to have forgotten about the fact that he LET CHILDREN GET SEXUALLY ABUSED BY THAT MONSTER SANDUSKY.

Now, we are taught from an early age to not speak ill of the dead, and I've learned that lesson well. However, the peer pressure I am receiving concerning my postmortem criticism of Paterno is coming from a place of privilege. I was sexually abused several times in my life, one such time involved similar dynamics to the Penn State case, I was at a very corrupt boarding school, the Grove School in Madison, CT; and was sexually assaulted by a teacher. The boarding school staff, when I told them, just ignored me, saying things like "didn't happen" and "not my problem". And I was triggered in July of last year to learn that not only did a student sexually assault a girl on campus, but the school washed her clothes and wisked the boy back to Philadelphia before the police could be involved. This was all enumerated in the FEDERAL LAWSUIT this girl is filing against the Grove School. I've heard stories, which I will leave those directly affected to tell, but I wouldn't put it past them to pull some Penn State style malfeasance, oh wait, they already did!!!

I will always remember that warm August night where I was cold heartedly violated by a man who was put in a position of trust, and believe me, I cannot, as somebody who has survived abuse, feel any sympathy for his family, nor can I feel sorry that he is dead. He may be at peace now, but all those children he abused will be going through their own personal hell for the rest of their lives. I think this article on Daily Kos makes the case better than I can.

So, F*** Joe Paterno, he is a monster who should not be celebrated, and I think that statue of him should be taken down. That's right, I don't care if Joe Paterno ain't quite worm food yet, the powers that be should take a chisel and just destroy that statue, just like the cancer destroyed that enabler's lung and stopped his black heart pumping liquified coal through his withered veins. And perhaps in its place, we should put a memorial to the children who were sexually abused; I don't know what it would look like; even if it is just a Phoenix with the head of the Nittany Lion on it, I still would rather have a good faith effort at a memorial to the children erected than to keep the statue of A SEXUAL ABUSE ENABLING MONSTER up.

Oh yeah, and F*** YOU GOVERNOR CORBETT FOR HAVING FLAGS FLYING AT HALF MAST. YOU CLAIM TO BE SO TOUGH ON CRIME AND SUPPORT THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, YET YOU WOULD GIVE A PERSON WHO TURNED A BLIND EYE TO MULTIPLE CRIMES OF MORAL TURPITUDE A HIGH POSTMORTEM HONOUR. You, sir, are the definition of hypocrite.

And I don't care if you don't like what I have to say; these line from an old Judas Priest song sum up how I am feeling right now "You don't know what it's like/you don't have a clue/If you did, you'd find yourself/Doing the same thing too"

-Jordan Gwendolyn Davis