HesterMofet
Active Member
You say "society" treats women more harshly, but when judges, the media, and even the victims seem to be far more lenient/accepting towards female "abusers" (i.e. those women who "fell in love with", "had an affair with" and "wanted to marry" some 13-year old or whatever), where exactly is the evidence for this harsh treatment?
The case where the mother reported a 15-year-old babysitter for getting her 8-yo son to touch her breasts, and the police arrested and charged the boy not the babysitter - is that the kind of "harsh treatment" you are talking about?
Sorry, I don't want to jump down your throat, but this just confuses me.
I totally agree with you. There is no parity in the legal treatment and that is totally unfair. I guess what I am trying to say, unelegantly, is that we as women see male sex offenders as real POSes who deserve to be in jail, we see women who do this as being worthy of a cell under the jail. When it comes to teenage boys and teachers, there is still the myth that the boy enjoyed it and I can't remember the woman's name, but there was a teacher in FL who was a beautiful, young blonde woman who had sex with a teen boy and no one took it seriously. She got probation. The national media treated it almost as a joke because she was so good looking. I think the legal system has a lot of catching up to do with the reality of abuse.