r/CFBOffTopic • u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears • Mar 08 '24

Analysis Friday thread brought to you by International Women's Day!

Any plans for today or this weekend?

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u/TubaFalcon Air Force Falcons Mar 09 '24

Exactly. The sad thing is that I’m a mandatory reporter too, and I couldn’t even report the ones who did it. They deny that it all even happened, when I know (and my friends know first-hand too) that it happened. I had to take SafeSport training as part of my USA Speedskating membership (adults have to take SafeSport trainings every year) and as one of the directors of my skate club, I’m a mando reporter. Sigh

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Mar 09 '24

People just don't believe that people they may know might be horrible, and their "knowledge" of the person tRuMpS your training and actual experience

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u/TubaFalcon Air Force Falcons Mar 09 '24

That is so true. Like sure, one of the abusers was my ex and the group defended her like “she couldn’t have done that! You’re crazy, she would never!” And yes, I do know that my brain’s a little…off…but I do know for fact that what happened by her (and there was a lot of it) was not okay at all

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u/Kiteflyerkat Baylor Bears Mar 09 '24

That's so disheartening :( you know it was abuse, and it was dismissed 

I'm glad that you're not in that environment anymore