Commentary: Dr. Larry Nassar was not a doctor
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Jan 29, 2018
3 minutes
The 156 women who spoke in open court last week, chronicling Larry Nassar's 20-year career as a sexual predator, seethed. They were unsparing. They were implacable. They were also brilliantly sardonic.
With icy contempt, they pronounced the oily phrases that Nassar and his enablers used to groom, manipulate and stigmatize them. Nassar was advertised to them as a "miracle worker," a "knight in shining armor." His sexual assaults were a "medical procedure." But the survivors reserved special disdain for one word: "doctor."
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