Posted on 02/07/2014 6:34:27 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
I think what you're seeing is a display of level-headedness about this one individual case. Most 17 year old heterosexual guys aren't going to be scarred for life by having sex with a 24 year old woman.
The vast majority of men just aren't wired that way.
Yeah, it was wrong for the teacher to violate the trust of her public position by seducing the guy, but if anyone thinks he's been emotionally harmed by the experience, they're hysterical.
If you cannot tell the difference between a 10 year old and a 17 year old, then there is something seriously wrong with you. I’ve run into you before. Your the guy who equated Johnny Manziel chasing skirts as the same as pedophilia. You really need help. You got some really deep dark problems.
“She is an adult in a position of authority and she uses that position to gain access to minors”
But she’s not an adult. Regardless of what you think. The average age difference in marriage is 5 years. Now usually the guy is older, but that’s not chiseled in stone...
The laughing comments from so many “conservative” men here are nauseating.
You think this is just about boys being boys? What about the girls in these classes? I have three daughters, and let me tell you, I don’t want some whore like this at the front of their classroom! You idiots think this kind of crap doesn’t “trickle down”?
Are you crazy?
I don’t think I have ever said anything about Johnny Manziel chasing skirts.
“Being stupid would be saying that kids should be having sex with teachers”
See, your still being stupid... I’m not saying they should. It’s just not a hanging offense when a 17 year old guy is involved.
Mrs. Ashmore, 10th Grade English, but that’s just me thinking back 45 Years.
Now I wonder if any of my Fantasy Women are still alive. sigh...
No. It is a hanging offense when a TEACHER who is an adult in a position of public trust violates it and has sex with the students.
Perhaps you live in the area where this incident occurred? I have no knowledge of the boy as to whether he would have been harmed a little, a lot or not at all. To say declaratively that he would suffer no harm is quite presumptive on your part. I can assure you that when I was 17, I would have been very much affected by sex with an aggressive mid-twenties teacher. Jmo
I probably said underage drinking laws need to be enforced.
I thought as much.
Geron, I'm sixty. I've got six kids - two girls and four boys. My eldest is 34, so I know a thing or two about successful parenting, and the pitfalls that kids can get into, in the area of sex.
None of my kids has ever fallen prey to seduction by an older person (and yes, some of them have been propositioned).
None of my kids has had a child out of wedlock (even though there were many temptations to do so).
None of my kids has ever come home with an STD (though the risk was ever present).
None of my kids has ever had a porn addiction (and you can bet we always checked).
But -- my wife and I made sure to raise them with healthy, responsible, and realistic ideas about sex -- and we didn't do it with the type of fire breathing force and authoritarianism as you're expressing here. Frankly, Geron, that sort of child rearing doesn't work.
It takes a delicate balance of gentle morals training and discipline to help them steer clear of the monsters that would eat them out there. You can't always be on guard to protect them, so you've got to teach them to protect themselves. At the same time, you've got to teach them that sex is beautiful, natural, and precious, and that it ought not to be engaged in for debased purposes.
It's tough to get it right, as any parent will tell you, but it can be done. The wrong way is to try to beat it into them, as you appear to think it is.
I knew that kind of thing was coming.
“You can’t have an opinion until you ______”
Sophistry of the lowest form.
Where did you get the idea I would do anything different than you apparently did? Yes, I would lay down the law too, that is part of it.
A 23 year old is NOT an adult these days... 60% of them still live with their parents.
You must be pretty young (like this teacher) to be so stupid on this matter.
Why make it about me? I’m 42.
This TEACHER is an adult. She abused her authority for prurient purposes. It’s not that difficult a concept to understand.
My values and beliefs are not situational, sorry. Right is right, and wrong is wrong.
Plus this is about the teacher, an adult who deserves punishment.
“Why make it about me? I’m 42”
That’s pretty young...
“This TEACHER is an adult”
This teacher is NOT an adult in our world today.
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