Yechhh.
Debra LaFave, poster girl for the “Being Raped By Your Teacher Is OK If She’s Hot” contingent
I’ve flagged this kind of post before, and I’ll continue to do so until sophomoric bloggers and commentators stop snickering and winking about child sexual abuse and outrageous breach of trust.
Why it is hard to grasp the concept that a school teacher seducing and having sex with an underage student is a despicable and harmful crime, and not some sort of male fantasy come true, I cannot conceive. Our education system consistently fails at conveying values and knowledge, but the fact that public schools are too often hunting grounds for sexual predators seeking to use their positions and power to turn kids into living, breathing sex toys is, you know, kind of cute and titillating to people like Eric Owens, laughably called the “Education Editor” at the Daily Caller.
Now he has offered a slide show of “This year’s hottest teachers who allegedly got busy with their students,” because what always concerns us about criminals, rapists and sex offenders is how hot they are. If there is any innocent, decent, responsible justification for this feature—I’m talking to you, Tucker Carlson—I’d be fascinated to hear it. Absent that, I think this glamorizes and trivializes sexual abuse and statutory rape by trusted professionals.
And that’s revolting, particular so for an alleged social conservative website .
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Source: Daily Caller
Graphic: 120zprophet
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Why it is hard to grasp the concept that a school teacher seducing and having sex with an underage student is a despicable and harmful crime, and not some sort of male fantasy come true, I cannot conceive.
It can be both things.
Yes, I agree. Just as men and women may have rape fantasies. One does not justify or mitigate or minimize the other however, and fantasies about hurting people are best kept private, not make into major website posts.
Southpark does a great job lampooning the whole cultural attitude on this.
To me, the teacher-student relationship is one of the most, if not the most sacred relationships. I think even consensual sex between a professor and a consenting adult student is wrong. To take the student teacher relationship, so important throughout human history, and twist it for personal pleasure is just completely wrong. I could go on, but I won’t.
Anyone watched “Animal House” lately?
Are the fantasies of teen-age males having sex with their teachers somehow more valid than the similar fantasies of teen-age females? The number of young women who had crushes on my 23 y.o. chem teacher (wrestling team coach) was astronomical. Are people outside of groups like NAMBLA arguing that there is nothing unethical about a 23y.o. male teacher having sex with a 14y.o.student because the woman in question fantasizes about having sex with him?
I think you meant “girl,” not woman. 🙂
In deference to political correctness I have abandoned use of the word “girl” for any human female capable of walking. It is pure cowardice on my part (I admit) but since I am unable to understand why treating women the same as men is discrimination against women despite having it explained to me multiple times I try to simply avoid anything which might raise the issue.
Even pretty women teachers can be emotionally stunted predators. I just don’t understand the double standard. It’s worse to be a predator who knows there won’t be public consequences. A real slap in the face to civility and decency.
I’m so looking forward to the follow-up piece geared toward the ladies: “Top 10 Most Handsome Sexual Sadists Who Kept Sex Slaves In A Crawlspace For Over A Decade”.
That Ted Bundy was sure a cutie!
Yechh (indecent) is right. But since we’re on the subject, given the way it has been presented in this case, I choose to have my own fun with it.
There is a terrible bias in this Top 10 list toward blondes (or, blonde-ishness) – not that I would be able to name ten more hot, non-blonde female edumolesters. But, going with what we have, I like to cull the Top Ten to the Top Three. I go with Sherwitz, Gray, and Whitehurst, in no particular order.
I would punish Ms. Crafton relatively leniently; ages 22 and 17 truly are not necessarily so far apart. How’s that for a confession by a man who, as a newly minted college graduate, dated a few high school girls (recently graduated ones, anyway)?
The age discrepancy is not an issue 22 and 17 maybe not be far apart.
Its the abuse of authority and violation of the teacher-student relationship that is an issue.
The “abuse” issue is why I said “relatively.” In my opinion, a 22-y-o teacher abusing authority by having sex with a 17-y-o student deserves better opportunity (but no guarantee) for a second chance to teach, than does an older, more veteran teacher whose authorities and “customers” deserve to expect no such deviancy at all, ever.
Did you really just imply that school systems and students don’t deserve to expect young teachers not to fuck students?
I wrote about Adam Sandler making a joke out of this issue: http://goodmenproject.com/good-feed-blog/adam-sandler-and-rape-culture/.
I suspect, based on Eeyoure’s previous comments, his response to tgt’s question would be “Somewhat.”