Misogyny, harassment and violence

            An unfortunate theme keeps appearing in the press involving sexual harassment, misogyny and violence within large institutions including military, sports and policing. One such article was in The Globe and Mail, 30 July 2022, page O8, by Kristi Allain, titled “If hockey is our game, then violence is our legacy, too.”

            I wonder if these stories are printed mainly to sell newspapers, since it appears the editorial departments of Canada’s print media do not really want to look into the underlying issues, since they all reject my letters and opinion articles on this topic, versions of this present article. It that because of so many high-level male editors and publishers who know the game?

            The "violent masculinity" that columnist Kristi Allain mentions is not limited to hockey and to not see the universal scope of the issue precludes finding a solution. To start, one must read the book American Kompromat* by Craig Unger. In that he describes the favorite pastime of rich and/or powerful men in every walk of life, be that business, sports or government, which is, their ongoing need to "have" a woman. As mentioned in the book "the younger the better." This is a fact of life for the elite, and they all "have each other's back" so that this culture can endure. But in normal people's lives, they are so distanced from the lives of the powerful, that they are not aware of these goings on. Thus, young people are not exposed to the system of nods and winks until they get higher in the ranks of business or government. But in sports and military training, the young recruits are directly exposed to the senior members so this misogynist culture can transfer directly to them. Really, you must read this book - as did the wife of an important business man, mentioned in the book, and she divorced him, failing to understand these "needs" of the very powerful. In American Kompromat Craig Unger describes typical nights at Jeffery Epstein’s New York hotel-like apartment complex with fine rooms for the “gentlemen” and tall young Russian women cruising the halls and genitalia-shaped soap bars in the bathrooms. But while the elites of business, government, sports or military were enjoying a happy outcome, they were secretly being videoed for blackmail purposes. This book also makes note that Epstein learned the business of recruiting young women for these purposes by reading Trump’s playbook on recruiting and on how to run a “modelling agency.”

* American Kompromat -How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, And Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery by Craig Unger, 2021  ISBN 9780593182543  Penguin Random House