I'd say that what I am reacting to is abuse of power. People definitely need to be made more aware of these issues surrounding people in positions of authority and power, but another thing that's needed is to appropriately establish a real and effective system to make coaches and people in positions of power accountable.
In addition to the need to introduce an accountability process, there should be a place people could go to make a complaint rather than fall back on the reporting process. For example: Ms. Horn-Miller's coach should have assumed responsibility for his actions. What I find somewhat fascinating, although it doesn'treally surprise me, is the silence and complicity of people who were in positions of authority, and whose behaviour seemed to trivialize incidents of sexual violence.
I'd like to go back to my main message from earlier, which is that blaming the victims is very widespread, as are reports of domination. Having myself made a complaint against a person in a position of authority — I was a trainee and he was my boss — I saw the system at work, even though it was not a sports setting. It was someone who had recognition, and who had power over me.
I was therefore able to see the abrogation of responsibility on the part of a number of people in positions of authority. This kind of behaviour can be seen in all settings. What's therefore required is an independent venue to which complaints can be made when the reporting system is not working.
Of course there is also the fear of reporting, which is related to the fear of displeasing and of not doing the right thing. People also don't want to show that they are not part of the team. That's a change in mentality that has to be made permanent. Discussions and awareness are needed, but also sanctions. Education on its own is not enough; sanctions are needed to