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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
oh yeah if it was a male teacher no one would joke about it at all he would be killed sick and a pervert
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I was listening to some legal experts discuss why there is such a double standard in female teacher/male student vs. male teacher/female student cases.
The main reason that many of the female teacher cases are pleaded out instead of going to juries is twofold.
#1 - Female jury members will usually tend to sympathize with the female teacher if the argument is put forth "I couldn't help myself. I fell in love." Women tend to look at sexual relationships as love instead of lust. (Many, not all.)
#2 - Male jurors will tend to think "Oh, yeah, that 16 year old kid was hittin' that. Wish it could have happened to me." (Note some of the comments of my fellow fraternal members on this site.) The guys think of how lucky the kid was and won't find the teacher guilty.
I agree with RU OX Alum. If it had been Mark LeTourneau, instead of Mary Kay, and Vicki SomewaylonglastnameIain'tevengoingtotry, instead of Villi, people would have been calling for a public castration.