In 1996, a 34-year-old teacher began a sexual relations with his 13-year-old student. Instead of calling it - rape - tabloids eat it.
Believe me when I say, if Mary Kay Letourneau is a man, everything will be very different.
For those of you who are not familiar with the woman in the picture, she is Mary Kay Letourneau who is famous. The former teacher, who "fell in love" with his student (Vili Fualauu) when he was 34 and he was 12 years old, took place 13.
What makes me disgust is the way the media rebellion decides to renomitize and describe this rape.
They call it a "tryst", "romance" and the situation "Star-Crossed Lovers".
They first had sex when he was 13 and he was 34 years old. And for those of you who say, "Age is just a number," I'm sure you won't say that if the gender is upside down. And if you will still get help.
According to the moral or legal definition Letourneau has raped FUALAAU, and placing a beacific photo on the cover of people will be similar to publishing Jeffrey Epstein grain shots.
But this is not how people see this case in 1998.
Letourneau is covered in media not as a sexual predator, but also as a reasonable Tabloid flower subject, is equivalent to domestic disputes from Die Hard and G.I stars. Jane; Or as a tragic lover, Ajinarilah with a bad romance that the public cannot understand. (Often, as the people show, it is a combination of both.)
Maybe more than other numbers in recent history, media coverage from Mary Kay Letoureu is responsible for capturing gender double standards associated with child rape, or the idea that, while a male teacher has sex with underage female students Despicable, a female teacher who sleeps with underage male students is not only forgiven, but worth five height.
The repeated defiance of Letourneau in the face of the laws of the law should function as an indication that he has serious mental health problems (he is then diagnosed with bipolar disorder). But the sustainable relationship with Fualaau only triggered greater public interest in the story. The dominant narrative is that Letourneau was a woman who was swept away by troops outside its control, what the author Ronald R. Fieve was referred to as "Star-Crossed lover" which only suffered from a bad romantic fortune case.
Debra Lafave, a Teacher Tampa and a former girlfriend of a levance boy who was charged with obscene batteries and Lascivious because they had oral sex with a 14-year-old student, panting was praised in the press for ice blonde beauty, to the title that his lawyer used it as a reason for him for him for Avoid prison time:
"To put a young woman who is interesting in such Hellhole, like putting a piece of raw meat with a lion," he said in 2004.
(Somehow, this argument works: Lafave was sentenced to three years of arrest and a seven-year trial period.)
This is one of the things that makes me disgust.
What do you think? Do you agree that most women's sexual predators in cases of teachers face a far less punishment than male sexual predators