'Sexy Miss': Not a dream come true
Amy Gehring: Cleared but now barred from teaching
Adults may joke about the "sexy miss" cleared of indecent assault, but it can be hard to recognise that boys who have sex with older women are the victims of abuse - just like girls preyed on by men.
If a male teacher had been accused of having sex with 14 and 15-year-old girls, he would no doubt be painted as a sexual predator and his pupils as victims of abuse. [BBC]
...living in the Seattle area I got to spend several years listening to the May Kay Letourneau story. It was sickening. The double standard is so true. If she had been a man, the story would never have gotten the attention it did and she would have been locked up and forgotten.
The hard part is that when I think back on what it was like when I was 15-16, and I have to be honest...I would have loved to 'sack' some 25 year old woman. That's the problem and why this issue has no simple answers. In fairness we need to treat these women no different then we do men. If we fail, then we have supported another double standard...mj
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