O.B.:
Quote:Apples and bowling balls, my friend. The stigma is different, hence, so is the crime. Fired and probation not to re-offend seems appropriate to me.
So happy the punishment met with your approval, but it isn't quite that cut and dried, or there wouldn't be the ongoing controversy. It "seems appropriate to you" and the "stigmas are different"?
I have some personal experience with this - and I want to tell you that a 30 year old woman messing around sexually with a 15 year old boy can f*ck that boy's head up. Stigmas? So, since the boys juvenile friends give him "atta boys", whereas the girls friends might label her "whore" or worse, that should define how unjust was the act of sexual predation itself?
I say that the main difference between sexual predation with a male or female perp is the level of brutality. There is by definition an intrusiveness and violation when a man does it to a girl. We, in all our enlightenment, try to pretend that since the man can't be physically "raped" in the same way, that the crime is different. It is still taking advantage of someone unable to make informed choices. It is a crime, no matter who does it.
To alter our societal response to this crime relative to how pretty the perp is, diminishes us all. Those of you trying to make that argument are trying to defend something that is morally indefensible.
