What's your opinion of sharking?

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Because one is a teenager and the other an adult.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
Virginia Satir

Like Losty said, so what? Somehow, they're supposed to know theft is wrong, and killing is wrong, and violence is wrong, but we're just supposed to give them a pass on a sex crime?

This is part of the problem, this is exactly the reason why young people think it's okay to do this kind of thing, because nobody teaches them that it's wrong, and people consistently downplay the seriousness of it. But if you think that a teenager isn't going to take it to heart when they forcibly strip a woman on the street and the authority figures treat it as no big deal, if you think that's not going to be a lesson for them that intensifies, then you are crazy. Like you say, teens are still learning, so what do you think it teaches them about women and sexual consent if the example you lead by is "you can get away with inappropriately touching women so long as you frame your violation of them in terms of a fun prank." ?