Olympic gymnast describes abuse

The stories being told as part of the #MeToo hashtag have been gut wrenching and should be an embarrassment to any man.

The hastag started in the wake of the allegations of sexual abuse and harassment by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, partly in response to the suggestion that workplace abuse in particular is a “Hollywood thing.”

Few stories so far have been as horrifying as the one posted on Twitter today by Olympic medalist McKayla Maroney.

She also provided the proper road map for stopping the abuse.

#MeToo pic.twitter.com/lYXaDTuOsS

— mckayla (@McKaylaMaroney) October 18, 2017

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Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.