i am outraged. I am currently watching Fox News and they are discussing the Debra Lefave case. While I am pretty unaware of what the details are, the gist of the story is that a female high school teacher had sex with her freshman student. She offered a plea deal and is getting out of jail time because of the plea. They are claiming there is a double standard, if she were a man and had slept with a female student, there would be no plea and definately jail time. Which I may agree with. But that is not the point of this post.

They had someone on the show arguing to the fact that her sentence was fair. And he said (i'm paraphrasing) "I think it may be true that a man would have gotten jail time, but I honestly don't think the boy was traumatized by this. I mean come on, he's a high school freshman boy. I think this comes down to an issue of gender, and if you ask men if they would have been traumatized, they would say no. A woman would say yes. Boys want sex at that age."

This boy was minor, not capable of fully understanding the extend of this action. She had no right to have sex with him, the same as a male teacher would have no right to have sex with a female student. This is not a question of gender, but of ethics. Saying 'boys just want to have sex' and 'girls are afraid of sex' is such a generalization and sooo demeaning to both sexes and their sexuality.

No wonder why these stereotypes get perpetuated.