TaraJo Wrote:I also think it would be interesting to look at society's view of statutory rape in regards to sexism. When an older man has sex with a teen age girl, say 15 or 16, how does the world see it? He's a monster who manipulated that poor girl for his own selfish, deviant sexual urges. What about those women (and there have been quite a few over the past decade or so) who has sex with a 15 or 16 year old boy? We all tell him how lucky he is and what a stud he is. Seriously. Can you imagine the outcry if a woman was raped and we tell her she should just enjoy it or we tell other women they should be jealous?
This reminds me of the ex-cheerleader turned high school teacher that slept with one of her students. As a reward for pleading guilty she had all felony charges dropped against her which meant she would spend no time in prison. All I could think of when I saw this on the news was the outcry there would be if a man who fucked one of his underage students was allowed to go free.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
