Double standard

[sugarmama]

I don't think he was a "victim" and I don't think most teens who bang an adult are "victims".

As a former teen seductress (isn't that a nice way to say "skeezer"? ), the teen knows damn good and well what they're doing, and they go after it willingly and voluntarily. There is no "rape", just consentual sex between an adult and a minor.

I'd be for eliminating statutory rape laws EXCEPT that they give the parents of a teen skeeze the power to run off an older suitor. Doesn't stop the kid from having sex with people their own age, but it does limit the playing field a bit and gives the parents a smidge of control.

Wow, I can't believe i actually agree with vrai.

 

[vraiblonde]

Are you off your rocker...

Well, I'm not condoning it - I'm just saying that's the way it used to be.

Kids are a lot more immature now than they were back in the day, for better or worse. We get all excited about some 8 year old who has to work a 10 hour day in a factory in Thailand, but 8 year olds back in Colonial times would call that kid a piker.

Not saying it's right or wrong, merely making an observation. :shrug:

 

[Nupe2]

Well, I'm not condoning it - I'm just saying that's the way it used to be.

Kids are a lot more immature now than they were back in the day, for better or worse. We get all excited about some 8 year old who has to work a 10 hour day in a factory in Thailand, but 8 year olds back in Colonial times would call that kid a piker.

Not saying it's right or wrong, merely making an observation. :shrug:

Different time as you stated. Also lifespans were much shorter and children were more "useful" as workers in the largely agrarian society of the colonial era. The reason kids originally did not attend school is the summer was so that they could help tend the fields and farms.

 

[Angel]

I'm with ya Pete. The Double Standard Deal is a Crop O' Crap (Registered Trademark of Angel). It makes me sick.

 

[kwillia]

I'm with ya Pete. The Double Standard Deal is a Crop O' Crap (Registered Trademark of Angel). It makes me sick.

I don't remember Pete saying the double standard deal is crap... he simply pointed it out and is asking if we should just embrace it since there will always be one.

 

[Angel]

I don't remember Pete saying the double standard deal is crap... he simply pointed it out and is asking if we should just embrace it since there will always be one.

Oh, Well I think the Double Standards are a Crop O' Crap (Registered Trade Mark of Angel). My bad...

 

[PrchJrkr]

Oh, Well I think the Double Standards are a Crop O' Crap (Registered Trade Mark of Angel). My bad...

An-GEL!

 

[Angel]

An-GEL!

I tried to hit ya up with some green for that, but:

You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later.

 

[mingiz]

An-GEL!

PrchJrkr be nice to Angel You know she can't hold her booze

 

[Angel]

PrchJrkr be nice to Angel You know she can't hold her booze

 

[PrchJrkr]

PrchJrkr be nice to Angel You know she can't hold her booze

I just like to rib her every now and then. For both of you.

 

[abbey]

An-GEL!

hey I was in the same situation as Angel, we are both nursing our hangovers today, thank goodness for Angel otherwise I would be all alone in my over drinking on a weekday

 

[PrchJrkr]

hey I was in the same situation as Angel, we are both nursing our hangovers today, thank goodness for Angel otherwise I would be all alone in my over drinking on a weekday

How does that feel?

 

[vraiblonde]

Well Vrai doesnt that negate your argument then?

No, I think they're more immature because we don't expect the things from them that we did back in the olden days. We've kind of dumbed them down by overprotecting them.

Which is not to say that's a bad thing. I don't want to go back to the days where my 17 year old would be contemplating marriage rather than college.

If kids are more immature then they are less capable of understanding that when they are 14 and a 24 comes on to them, its not kewl, its Sick

You will never, and I mean never, convince a 14 year old that it's not cool to have a 24 year old come on to them. A 34 year old, maybe - but not a 24 year old.

 

[Larry Gude]

In her defense...

Well Vrai doesnt that negate your argument then?

If kids are more immature then they are less capable of understanding that when they are 14 and a 24 comes on to them, its not kewl, its Sick

...we maybe should note that something that biologically is not a big deal, which is in fact normal, an older male or female noticing the hot bod of a 15 year old boy or girl, is not sick. We just call it that because whenever we use the proper word' inappropriate', it alway sparks people to say 'Oh yeah? keep your morals off my mind!" It's just easier to demonize, to draw a relatively arbitrary line in the sand.

 

[Booboo3604]

I actually went to high school with her back in florida. I was a freshman when she was a senior. How young am i, ha ha. But anyways from just passing her in the halls and tid bits of conversation you would never know that she would have ever have done this. She was in ambassadors which was like a show chorus thing and always seemed smiley. Guess she had all that bi-polar deep down inside though. Who knows. Just crazy to see people from your past make national news, ha ha

 

[vraiblonde]

Guess she had all that bi-polar deep down inside though.

I don't think she's bi-polar at all. I think she's just using that as an excuse to get a lighter sentence, like Andrea Yates and her post-partum depression crap.