John Romaniello Scandal

Source ? Sounds completely made up

Yawnā€¦ Sorry dude ? Maā€™am ? I was in law enforcement for a looooong time. I know the reality.

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How can you possibly know this? Women who never come forward are by the nature of the thing unknowable. False accusations are also difficult to definitively count.

54 stories from a single account with no identifying details. If itā€™s true, take it to the police. No reason to compile it on instagram other than to make accusations without needing to prove anything.

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Taking it through the judicial system is an ordeal for the victims and can be extremely traumatic. Not to mention if legal evidence is scarce and the attacks are a few years old, it would be difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt on an individual basis. Victims donā€™t want to relive and be further traumatized.

The point of the posts would be to warn other potential victims off, and to exact some semblance of punishment to their attacker.

And who knows if some of these claims have been taken to police.

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We do know there are women and girls, I personally know some, who havenā€™t reported sexual assaults but I agree that the percentage of victims who donā€™t come forward canā€™t be accurately known. I would suspect that itā€™s relatively high but I couldnā€™t begin to prove it. I donā€™t agree with women feeling as though they wouldnā€™t be believed if they come forward as much as itā€™s about shame, feeling that they might be to blame at some level, not wanting to relive the experience, fear of facing the perpetrator, fear of the perpetrator, a third party talks them out of it, etc. Look at Bill Clinton; some women came forward but I would bet there are more out there. The same with Cosby.

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It seems like three options are viable:

  1. He is guilty of accusations

  2. A spurned woman is trying to burn him. Iā€™m sure we all have at least one story of a woman manipulating or flat out lying to shade perceptions or even attempt to ruin a guy.

  3. Whatever kink lifestyle he was involved in created situations in a grey area. Maybe he was more intense than the women intended, but they still initiated whatever scenario they wound up in together. I didnā€™t read any situations where he forcibly raped anyone, but I did read quite a few where they just didnā€™t want to tell him no, so they didnā€™t. If Christian Grey was too much in real life vs. fantasy so be it, but the guy canā€™t read minds. Show up to a ā€œdominantā€ BDSM session and you can expect dominant BDSM. Use that safety word next time.

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He comes off as a weirdo and a phony/conman regardless. When someoneā€™s job titles are mentor and advisor, it sets off red flags. He gives off manipulator vibes. And itā€™s why heā€™s in this situation. This is a man who is over 40 years old. And let me first say that there is nothing wrong with being gay, but I stand by my initial impression that heā€™s a homosexual. He is definitely, in spite of the titles of his books, not an alpha. Iā€™m not saying heā€™s guilty of anything, but he is a creep and a degenerate.

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If I remember correctly you have a fairly puritanical view of sex, which is fine, but it is one of many lenses. He may be manipulative, I donā€™t know. I still see three possible scenarios.

He apparently identifies as queer, so my initial impression was correct. I donā€™t know if Iā€™m that puritanical but I believe that if youā€™re a man approaching middle age and youā€™re identifying as queer, extoll the virtues of polyamory and have a weird fixation with anal sex, youā€™re pathetic. Even the ancient Greeks believed a man should stop being a deviant when he got older.

It reminds me of workplace safety. Everybody thinks theyā€™re cool and can get away with playing fast & loose, until somebody gets hurt. Then its all over but the blame game.

Same with sex games. No one wants to pay the emotional toll, they all have agreed upon loopholes, until somebody gets hurt. Lather rinse repeat.

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I know this is only one, but I donā€™t have instagram so I just grabbed a screen shot:

But he sounds like everybody that likes sex & drugs, ever- with a bdsm twist.

Heā€™s a narcissistic douche, so of course he doesnā€™t think about other people. Itā€™s funny because my immediate first impression of him was that he was gay and a douchebag. Not that every gay is a douche or every douche is gay. I didnā€™t find him intriguing, interesting or charismatic. Yet somehow people, men and women, are attracted to him. It just goes to show how people interpret behaviors and presence differently. I see narcissist and they see confidence, for example. But this is how conmen operate; itā€™s about who they can attract not who they repel.

:man_shrugging:t2:. I never had any impression of him. At the time he was writing articles here I was too busy to make note of any fitness personalities.

He does seem pretty fruity from what Iā€™ve seen so far.

I lived in Jersey. I can easily spot a douchebag or someone who is full of shit.

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OSHA ran me off a job for taking off my hard hat when I was suspended upside down sticking bolts

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I got written up for adjusting mine to get the size right.

Theyā€™re way too serious

They focus on the wrong things. Its cherry picking hardhat & earplug violations that makes them look like a joke when dudes are zonked on oxys & fentanyl operating overhead cranes.

I saw a guy so high on opana that he caught himself on fire arc gouging, and didnā€™t realize it even as we were putting him out. :rofl:

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I donā€™t really care that much either way, for the record. Heā€™s some guy who used to write articles here.

Per the account posting allegations he does seem douchey, and maybe a little more than assertive. This could easily fall under 2. A spurned woman talking shit. Or 3. Say no. And mean no. Leave if the guy is pushing drugs and anal you donā€™t want. Donā€™t take his pills and his dick in your ass. :man_shrugging:t3:

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