tgg wrote:
26mi235 wrote:I cannot think of a single coach of a women's track/XC team I have known that would pose like that on a team trip. He talked about how he had screwed up and done a lot of things that he should not, and this picture serves to illustrate (not prove) that.
There are far too many things that might be semi-innocent or at least acceptable in a general adult setting that are inappropriate, especially when done repeatedly, with a male in charge/control of a bunch of dependent (on him) and impressionable women.
His defenders here sometimes seem laughably disconnected from what appropriate standards of behavior are for someone in his position, wanting to substitute in its place something that is acceptable in positions of less trust and responsibility. Given the one-way arrow in authority and responsibility, essentially nothing of childish or bratty or whatever behavior on the part of women on the team is relevant. Even bringing it up, much less repeatedly attacking it, is a clear sign that the poster does not understand the situation.
How do you know that they are dependent and impressionable?
They are, by LEGAL definition. And, to an extent they are even if they do not think that they are. It is inherent in the very nature of the situation and that is why the rules have (finally) developed as they have. People seem to be slow on the uptake that the situation CANNOT BE taken as one that is symmetric in the manner of a normal relationship. This is a fundamental point that the defending posters do not seem to grasp.