March 31, 2015
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 31, 2015 @ 5:00 p.m./edited @ 6:26 p.m./I erased this post on April 1, 2015 @ 9:05 a.m.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Governments, please stop the YMCA.
March 31, 2015
I know that everyone who works for the government is busy. I want to do what I'm able to do to be sure that as many people as possible who can do something immediately about stopping crime see the video of what happened at the YMCA on March 23, 2015. That's why I'm going to publish a page every day for a while with the Web address of that video.
I have said before that I have no control over how Web addresses are configured.
The YMCA has treated me as if I am a criminal because I have objected to harassment, stalking, voyeurism and child molestation. No child is safe at any YMCA, and no member of any YMCA is safe from being videotaped in a YMCA locker room or bathroom.
If something isn't done to stop it, these crimes will be happening everywhere, not just at the YMCA.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 31, 2015 @ 4:46 p.m.
Support groups and counseling
March 31, 2015
There should be support groups and counseling for victims of voyeurism and involuntary pornography.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 31, 2015 @ 4:44 p.m.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
The college try for status quo?
March 29, 2015
That's a picture from today of part of the first page of the website for the Columbia Journalism Review.
This is another picture of part of the first page of that website:
This is another picture of part of the first page of that website:
This is a picture of the first part of the first page of that website:
There seems to be much anticipation building for the Columbia Journalism Review's written discussion of the original Rolling Stone article about rape at the University of Virginia.
That's a picture from today of the first part of the first page of Yahoo search results for the search term "rolling stone uva article."
The first article that corresponds with the first search result says that the discussion of the Rolling Stone article will be written by Steve Coll.
The website for the Columbia Journalism School describes Mr. Coll as "Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism." The page about him at that website lists his many achievements and starts by saying that he writes for the magazine "The New Yorker."
This is a picture from today of the first part of the first page of the website for The New Yorker:
Is The New Yorker prominently featuring an article by Mr. Coll to remind everyone of what a capable, intelligent and respected journalist he is so that, when he publishes his discussion of the Rolling Stone article, that discussion will be met without question and considered the final word on the subject? That could be very helpful to everyone who wants to sue Rolling Stone, and possibly also "Jackie," couldn't it?
This is another picture of part of the first page of the website for The New Yorker:
This is a picture from today of the Yahoo search result for the New Yorker website that is on the first page of search results for the search term "new yorker cover":
This is a picture from today of what the first page that corresponds to that website looks like:
It never fails to astonish me how much time and effort "the establishment" spends ridiculing everyone who isn't a white man. It doesn't even matter to the people who run that establishment if the people whom it's ridiculing have conflict with each other; perhaps the uber-powerful find that conflict amusing, while they glance lazily down at the glass floor which is everyone else's ceiling and see everyone who isn't them fighting over what's left of the world's power.
I have no opinion about Mr. Coll's article about Iran. I have not read it, and would hesitate to give opinions about it if I did read it; I'm sure that he knows much more about Iran than I do.
What I do know is that Columbia University is part of the Ivy League. The University of Virginia is not technically part of the Ivy League. It is, though, considered to be an elite school, and the power dynamic which wends its way through the elite institutions of the United States is clearly absent neither there nor at any Ivy League school. Ivy, the plant, looks pretty sprawling over buildings; it is also part of the vegetation category known as "creeper plants." To attempt to curb part of it is, from the plant's perspective, to attack the entire clinging, insidious thing.
People who are good at what they do have to work somewhere. To work for a prestigious business or to attend a prestigious school is not to don an automatic or permanent mantle of shame. Hopefully, Mr. Coll will produce a truthful and accurate discussion of the Rolling Stone article, and will not then be fired or attacked by the conglomerate media. I'm not sure what the website for the Columbia Journalism Review is trying to say about plagiarism; however, I won't take offense if Mr. Coll considers the pages I have written about the article and amends the document that he's writing accordingly.
She had no reason to lie. She's at the beginning of her life, which is part of why she was naive enough to be an attractive victim to predators. She's been through too much already.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 29, 2015 @ 7:19 p.m.
Africa
March 29, 2015
If Africa needs aid, it should get it.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 29, 2015 @ 12:42 p.m.
Governments, please stop the YMCA
March 29, 2015
I know that everyone who works for the government is busy. I want to do what I'm able to do to be sure that as many people as possible who can do something immediately about stopping crime see the video of what happened at the YMCA on March 23, 2015. That's why I'm going to publish a page every day for a while with the Web address of that video.
I have said before that I have no control over how Web addresses are configured.
The YMCA has treated me as if I am a criminal because I have objected to harassment, stalking, voyeurism and child molestation. No child is safe at any YMCA, and no member of any YMCA is safe from being videotaped in a YMCA locker room or bathroom.
If something isn't done to stop it, these crimes will be happening everywhere, not just at the YMCA.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 29, 2015 @ 12:41 p.m.
Support groups and counseling
March 29, 2015
There should be support groups and counseling for victims of voyeurism and involuntary pornography.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 29, 2015 @ 12:39 p.m.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Who's responsible for the "discrepancies"?
March 27, 2015
The victims of sexual assault are not at fault for the lies and obstructions of justice orchestrated against them.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 7:29 p.m.
New England Grass Roots Initiative, Quincy
March 27, 2015
Copyright L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 7:20 p.m.
Wet Floor signs at Quincy Center Station
March 27, 2015
Copyright L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 7:13 p.m.
The Charlottesville, Virginia police department
March 27, 2015
These are pictures from today of parts of the first page of the official website for the Charlottesville police department:
These are pictures from today of parts of that police department's statement, posted at its website, about its investigation of Jackie's story:
"Haven" is a conglomerate code word for voyeurism. "Monahan"; do they mean "Moanahand"? Is the Charlottesville police station not only lying about everything having to do with Jackie's story, but also making a joke of the entire thing?
This is another picture of that statement:
"Drew." He was a member of another fraternity in 2006? That means that nothing he told Jackie about himself was the truth; he told her that he was a third-year student and that he was a Phi Psi member. Of course he lied to her, and of course he organized gang rapes at a fraternity that was never his; that was the only way that he could bring a woman to a fraternity house for the purpose of getting her gang raped. Everyone at his own fraternity house would know that he wasn't a student, that he was older, and that he didn't even live at the fraternity house any more.
It would seem that Drew was either a college drop-out or someone who had graduated and then, finding the world outside a college town less hospitable to infantile men than he liked, ingratiated himself to young, male fraternity members by bringing them women to rape. It's not surprising that he was able to get Jackie to trust him so easily; how many years had he already spent devising his technique for preying on young women?
This is another picture of the statement:
Would the records to which the Charlottesville police department supposedly couldn't get access be the ones that would help prove that Jackie told the truth?
This is another picture of the statement:
The man in the picture that the Charlottesville police and many other people have tried to say proves that there was no party at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house was standing next to the stairs and the side door, holding two chairs, when the picture was taken? Was he bringing the chairs somewhere just because he felt like moving furniture? Did someone take his picture because everyone in the fraternity was bored that night and they decided to have a chair-moving contest? Isn't moving chairs the sort of thing that usually happens at a party, when the place gets crowded, so there's more room for everyone? Isn't it likely that the only picture that the police were given, or that they wanted to get, was one of the few taken that night that didn't show a lot of people in the house?
The rest of the statement is one sentence after another that shows the forcefulness with which the Charlottesville police department denied everything that Jackie ever willingly told them. Who can blame her for refusing to give more information to a police department that used everything she said against her?
The Charlottesville police station is probably not the only police station in a college town whose history of discrediting rape victims and protecting their wealthy attackers is as long as the college, and world, history of making sure that rich, male criminals don't go to jail. How many college buildings were financed by the fathers of rapists?
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 7:09 p.m.
"320 D Street"
March 27, 2015
Lincoln Property Company ad on a public train.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 5:22 p.m.
12 miles of dissent repression
March 27, 2015
It's a Hilton Head ad.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 5:12 p.m.
Mayor Walsh's answer to the crisis at the YMCA
March 27, 2015
Today, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh published an article in the Boston Globe. The Globe's website announced that he was publishing the article because he had won a "B.R.A." bet.
These are pictures of parts of his article, from the print version:
The preface to the article was by the person who usually writes the column; she said the Mayor had procrastinated about writing the article. What was it that made him finally decide to write it, all of a sudden, this week, of all weeks?
America, say goodbye to your rights to not be voyeuristically videotaped and to protect your children from that and other forms of sexual abuse.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 5:07 p.m.
Rolling Stone is apologizing to the wrong people.
March 27, 2015
This page contains pictures of parts of Rolling Stone's apology about its article about rape at the University of Virginia.
What's the fraternity's definition of a "date function," a situation in which women don't get raped? Isn't it possible that "date functions" are the house events to which the women from the wealthier families get invited, that gang rapes aren't planned for nights when there are "formal events" because those have to be reported to the University of Virginia's administration, and that the undocumented parties are when women who are considered easy targets get raped?
Is there is a reason that Drew couldn't have lied to Jackie about being a Phi Psi member?
Did he or didn't he work as a lifeguard at the same place and at the same time as Jackie did?
If he wasn't a Phi Psi member, then Phi Psi's assertion, even if it's true, that none of its members worked at that pool in the fall of 2012 doesn't mean anything except that Drew wasn't a Phi Psi member.
Isn't it plausible that a predator looking for victims to lure to a fraternity gang rape would do what he could not to be traceable to the fraternity where the rapes take place? Look for potential victims away from the future scene of the crime. Get to know them and gain their trust. Tell the men with whom you're planning the rape that the woman you've been working on likes and trusts you. They plan the party, you invite the woman, and she, having interacted with you for weeks or months in a nonthreatening setting, walks into the trap.
Sexual assault at college has gotten some national attention over the past few decades. It's probably not as easy as it used to be to get a woman who doesn't know you to drink enough that she has no idea what's happening when you bring her to a room by herself, or to put a drug in her drink so that she passes out. People around you can be witnesses to your attempts to get a woman to keep drinking. Try that more than a few times, and you could be identified as someone who is probably a rapist, and while you might not get punished for it at a permissive school, your reputation will make women wary of you.
It's much easier, if more time-consuming, to gain a woman's trust at work or in class. Why chase your prey when you can get "it" to walk to you of "its" manipulated free will?
The "friends" of Jackie who have betrayed her to the media; aren't they the same people who told her not to report the crime to the police the night that it happened, and who treated her callously about the assault when it took its psychological toll on her? The night of the assault was when her body had the evidence that needed to be collected and documented to prove that a rape had occurred; the people who told her not to tell anyone then, who were so concerned about their own status that they could look at her while she was bruised and bleeding and tell her that nobody would believe her, were more help to the attackers than anything else could have been. She went to her dorm, she took a shower, and every chance she had of successfully prosecuting a case literally went down the drain.
The original Rolling Stone article about this story was a thorough account of the history of sexual assault at the University of Virginia. It describes the administration's systematic repression of the victims' stories and the administration's refusal to punish rapists. The article describes the misogynist, elitist college culture that brainwashes students into believing that sexual assault is a rite of passage for men to enjoy and women to endure. Jackie's story is historically corroborated by many other stories by victims, stories which nobody is refuting.
The article also describes Jackie's heartbreaking transformation from a successful, social, optimistic high-achiever to a recluse who wanted to die. Is someone offering an alternative story to the one she has told, to explain what so dramatically changed the course of her college career?
It seems to me that she had every reason to fear retaliation by the men whom she accused, and to fear that retaliation would not only stop the article from being published or result in a version of the article that minimized what had happened, but would explode into her personal and professional life, branding her a liar among all elite-school alumni even without the story getting national attention. Where do you think the parents of the men who commit these crimes and the women who support rape culture while students work? They work at the power level of American society. They easily could have stopped the article from being published at all, and now they are going to try to make national heroes of their rapist sons and to destroy their victim's life.
Every attack on the article and every withdrawal of support for her are proving that Jackie had no reason to tell her story except that it was the truth. The system of denial which she challenged is closing around her as surely as the 7 men closed around her the night she was raped, and she is as helpless to stop it today as she was then.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 5:49 p.m.
Ashley Judd: All's fair in politics?
March 27, 2015
Is that what you're trying to say?
That's a picture from today of the first page of Ashley Judd's official website.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 11:38 a.m.
SEVEN 3
March 27, 2015
That is the license plate of a car that just drove past me.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 11:25 a.m.
The woefully corrupt New York Times
March 27, 2015
The New York Times continues to insist that it has the right to hack my phone and publicize illegally obtained information.
Hacking phones is a crime. Even if it weren't a crime, it would be my right to decide who could hack my phone and who couldn't.
Freedom of the press is supposed to guard against the repressiveness of despotic government. It is not a freedom that the press is supposed to abuse by leading the public to believe that the public has no rights.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 11:02 a.m.
1RV 919
March 27, 2015
That is the license plate of a car that just drove into the parking lot of Quincy Mental Health Center.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 10:50 a.m.
Governments, please stop the YMCA.
March 27, 2015
I know that everyone who works for the government is busy. I want to do what I'm able to do to be sure that as many people as possible who can do something immediately about stopping crime see the video of what happened at the YMCA on March 23, 2015. That's why I'm going to publish a page every day for a while with the Web address of that video.
I have said before that I have no control over how Web addresses are configured.
The YMCA has treated me as if I am a criminal because I have objected to harassment, stalking, voyeurism and child molestation. No child is safe at any YMCA, and no member of any YMCA is safe from being videotaped in a YMCA locker room or bathroom.
If something isn't done to stop it, these crimes will be happening everywhere, not just at the YMCA.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 9:13 a.m.
Support groups and counseling
March 27, 2015
There should be support groups and counseling for victims of voyeurism and involuntary pornography.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 27, 2015 @ 9:10 a.m.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Kohl's
March 26, 2015
I just saw a Kohl's television ad that said "Yes2You."
Nobody from the conglomerate is saying "yes" to me. The answer that I get every day to my statement that I have the righs to my body and NOBODY ELSE DOES is "No."
Copyright L. Kochman, March 26, 2015 @ 8:38 p.m.
Media privacy invasions
March 26, 2015
The New York Times and the Boston Globe have my phone hacked, are reading my emails, and publicizing things from my email in code.
I'm sure they're not the only people who are doing that.
I don't know if I have a right that hasn't been repeatedly violated.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 26, 2015 @ 6:25 p.m.
Evil
March 26, 2015
There's nothing that I have ever done that is as bad as what the conglomerate has done to me.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 26, 2015 @ 5:31 p.m.
Liars can't lose in a conglomerate world
March 26, 2015
Copyright L. Kochman, March 26, 2015 @ 1:47 p.m.
Transit Police car 87 at Quincy Center Station
March 26, 2015
Loud coughing from a man who just went into the station.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 26, 2015 @ 11:38 a.m.
Governments, please stop the YMCA
March 26, 2015
I know that everyone who works for the government is busy. I want to do what I'm able to do to be sure that as many people as possible who can do something immediately about stopping crime see the video of what happened at the YMCA on March 23, 2015. That's why I'm going to publish a page every day for a while with the Web address of that video.
I have said before that I have no control over how Web addresses are configured.
The YMCA has treated me as if I am a criminal because I have objected to harassment, stalking, voyeurism and child molestation. No child is safe at any YMCA, and no member of any YMCA is safe from being videotaped in a YMCA locker room or bathroom.
If something isn't done to stop it, these crimes will be happening everywhere, not just at the YMCA.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 26, 2015 @ 9:15 a.m.
Support groups and counseling
March 26, 2015
There should be support groups and counseling for victims of voyeurism and involuntary pornography.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 26, 2015 @ 9:03 a.m.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Hate Lena enough, and "the stars align"
March 25, 2015
That's a picture from tonight of part of the first page of the website for the New York Times.
That's a picture from tonight of part of the first page of Vanessa Hudgens's official website.
She believes it; she clearly believes what she wrote about her opportunities. Like so many people who have known nothing other than privilege, she thinks the good people win and the bad people lose, that it's all "meant to be."
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 25, 2015 @ 11:34 p.m.
Not today
March 25, 2015
"Not today" seems to be the answer at the end of every day. The question is "When is the promotion of the SICK, SADISTIC, ILLEGAL videos of me going to stop?"
All I have to do to get that answer is glance at a television, or the Internet, or a magazine, or a newspaper.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 25, 2015 @ 7:46 p.m.
The media
March 25, 2015
I once asked my parents to meet with me and a psychologist who specialized in counseling people who have lost loved ones to suicide. That meeting was the first and only time that I heard what happened the day that my grandfather died.
My mother found his body; then the media found her. Suicide was then big news in a small town. She ran down the sidewalk toward the photographer, crying, and yelling "Go away!"
"He gave me a sick grin," my mother said, when she told the story.
The business descendants of the people who were at my grandfather's house that day never stop grinning at me.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 25, 2015 @ 6:19 p.m.
Orphans
March 25, 2015
When I was young, every holiday was full of hope and dread. The hope was that my father and my sister wouldn't fight. My parents argued loudly, bitterly and frequently when my sister wasn't around; when she was, she and my father would argue, with my mother and me off to the side, my mother trying every so often to stop them while the sight and sound of her first child and her husband screaming at each other tore at her heart.
I have few memories of either of my parents crying. I have few childhood memories of my sister in which she wasn't crying.
My mother raised my sister alone, with help from my grandparents, for the first several years of my sister's life. I'm sure that they felt like parents to my sister, and that the death of my grandfather by suicide when my mother was pregnant with me was a terrible loss for my sister, who was a preteen when it happened. I don't know if my father ever had a nickname for my sister; he had many for me when I was little. When my grandfather died, so did the person in my sister's life who called her "Twinkletoes."
I never knew what my parents or my father and sister were arguing about. Perhaps the caption that could have been added to every sad tableau of my family was "Why doesn't anyone love me?"
I never in my life spent an hour with my sister during which she did not talk about something that she didn't like about the way she looked. The specter of her supposed ugliness, particularly how fat she thought she was, loomed large over her in her diatribes against herself. Decades after I started hearing them, I found a picture of her as a teenager that showed a beautiful, thin girl of normal and proportionate weight. I was first surprised, then sad, then suspicious. How many other evil, untrue legends spun by family members about themselves and others had twisted so deeply into the minds of the people telling and hearing them that the insisted-upon lies gained power over the truth?
Copyright L. Kochman, March 25, 2015 @ 5:57 p.m./edited, with additions, @ 6:05 p.m.
The Onion's misuse of satire
March 25, 2016
Those are pictures from today of an article published online by The Onion, a satirical organization.
The correct use of satire is to get at powerful people who are doing something evil.
I never asked to be voyeuristically videotaped, and I never stop thinking about suicide. Please leave me alone.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 25, 2015 @ 4:54 p.m.
The unintelligent diss
March 25, 2015
It adds injury to insult, particularly when you know that you have wasted time on scolionophobic people who can't even insult you accurately, articulately, or with a gutter-free mentality.
Ryan Phillippe started implying that I'm a troll a few weeks ago.
He has my phone hacked, doesn't he? Also, at no time since I started to pay attention to him in 2013 has he ever stopped publicly posting degrading things about me. It seems to me that he is far trollier than I am, as is everybody else who behaves the way that he does.
I don't even know how many times I have printed the words "Please, nobody ever hack my phone." People who insist on hacking my phone are commiting a crime with the motivation of trying to find out what I'm thinking, aren't they? Is there a reason that I should treat habitual intruders of my life with more concern for their feelings than they have both for my feelings and my rights?
It is also painful to observe the intellectual corruption and commitment to sordid behavior demonstrated by the New York Times. That newspaper, and every other conglomerate participant, never stop feeding the pomposity of the rich, famous and vacuous, knowing how much the ignorant percentage of the public worships Hollywood. "Be idiots," the conglomerate tells the world. "Don't you want to be like the stars we support?" It's much easier to get idiots to give you their children to rape.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 25, 2015 @ 3:49 p.m./addition @ 4:06 p.m.
Pop-Tarts and the death of civilization
March 25, 2015
Who at Kellogg makes the decisions about what it is appropriate to put on boxes of Pop-Tarts?
That is a picture from today of the side of a box of Pop-Tarts.
"amazeballs?"
It's also a conglomerate joke that my breasts are flat; that's the joke the conglomerate makes about my breasts when the conglomerate isn't trying to make the world think that I have size D breasts.
The conglomerate also thinks that it's funny that it obtained voyeuristic video of me in the shower when I was menstruating.
Who is going to stop all of this?
I can't believe what is happening.
How many inappropriate advertisements are children and the people who want to abuse children seeing every day? Thousands.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 25, 2015 @ 2:44 p.m./addition @ 2:46 p.m.
Stop the New York Times!
March 25, 2015
The New York Times also has my phone hacked, and is using the information from my phone that it has illegally collected to encourage conglomerate bullying of me.
That's a picture of Zac Efron's Twitter page, showing his last few Tweets. Because I know that a lot of people hack my phone, sometimes I'll film videos with my phone in which I talk about my objections to the behavior of conglomerate supporters. I filmed some angry videos about Ryan Phillippe several days ago; the conglomerate's response was to show all sorts of support for him. He even got an interview with Larry King, for which the decor promoted voyeurism and child abuse.
That's a picture from today of Ryan Phillippe's Twitter page, showing his last few Tweets.
I saw Zac Efron's Twitter page a few days ago, and filmed some angry videos about that, also.
Those are pictures from today of part of the first page of the website for the New York Times.
My father's name is Frank. I never had sexual contact with my father; it seems to me that the conglomerate not only wants to imply that I did, it also is trying to promote voyeurism and child molestation.
Those are pictures from today of the article about the sex talk.
Do the parents of the first girl named in the article know that the New York Times has publicized her name with the code intention of making it seem as if voyeurism and child abuse are normal things that minors should be persuaded to accept and to think are normal?
Does Julie Metzger know how the New York Times used its article about her?
Do the police know that the author of the article is a mother who perhaps should be questioned about the appropriateness of her relationship with her progeny?
That's another picture from today of part of the first page of the website for the New York Times.
There has to be a way to put a stop to the behavior of this evil newspaper, and other media sources like it.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 25, 2015 @ 2:20 p.m.
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