On Tuesday, former Texas A&M Linebacker Santino Marchiol came forward with claims about his time in the football program. The complete USA Today article contains what we know so far.
This isn’t about a person. It’s not about one single player, or coach, or a team or a program. It’s about a culture, or rather the husk of an illusion of a culture: a lazy acceptance of tired notions of masculinity posing as substantive teaching, or the “molding of men.”
This isn’t about pointing and snickering, either. Not because it is “us” and we need to remind everyone by employing the classic deflection (also very true in this case) that everyone does it.