[speechlesstx]

I find this disturbing on so many levels...

Sex between students and teachers should not be a crime - The Washington Post

Yes, it should.

[smoothy]

I find this disturbing on so many levels...

Sex between students and teachers should not be a crime - The Washington Post

Yes, it should.

That's part of why its known as the Washington COMpost.

[tomder55]

Told you the next big slippery slope moment would be to challenge 'age of consent laws '

[talaniman]

You guy sure see stuff that's not there, as this is no challenge to the age of consent but a challenge to how its prosecuted.

The intensity of criminal proceedings, with all the pressure they put on participants, the stigma, the community and media scrutiny, and the concurrent shame and guilt they generate, do the opposite of healing and protecting the victim.

Laws related to statutory rape are in place to protect children, but the issue of underage sex, and certainly of sex between students and teachers, may be one in which the law of unintended consequences is causing so much damage that society needs to reassess.

Show me where this is about the age of consent, and not the treatment of the victims. If grown rape victims are afraid to come forward, what makes you think a kid will? Especially a 16 year old that thinks its love but it rape?

The author is asking for more consideration for the victims, not the perps.

[tomder55]

So the answer is to decriminalize ?

[tomder55]

Here is the pertinent paragraph:

I don't believe that all sexual conduct between underage students and teachers should necessarily be classified as rape, and I believe that absent extenuating circumstances, consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized.

But then again... the libs didn't think that a POTUS taking advantage of an intern was a biggie

[talaniman]

I don't agree with the author on that point at all as adults should know better, and its still statutory rape to a vast majority of liberals, just not this one. Extenuating circumstances my a$$.

[speechlesstx]

A 49 year old man and authority figure having "consensual" sex with a 14 year old? And it damages society to prosecute and punish the guy? Get real.

[talaniman]

The author was clear about the further damage being done to the victim.

[speechlesstx]

Incoherent is the word.

[speechlesstx]

It's come to this...

Can These Students Fix Wikipedia's Lady Problem?

Earlier this month, Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales told conference-goers in Hong Kong that a whopping 87 percent of the site's editors are men. It wasn't the first time Wikipedia's gender imbalance had played out in the media: In Februrary, staff acknowledged that it affected the online encyclopedia's content, and a New York Times op-ed in April noted that Wikipedia editors had been moving women from the "American Novelists" category to the "American Women Novelists" subcategory.

So what's a tech-savvy woman to do? "Storming Wikipedia," a project of the feminist organization FemTechNet and an assignment given to students participating in FemTechNet's new online course, is designed to fix this imbalance. During these exercises students edit Wikipedia en masse, "with the goal being to collaboratively write feminist thinking into the site," says Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies at California's Pitzer College and one of the course facilitators.

Students participating in the exercise will create and expand Wikipedia articles on influential women and encourage "feminists, academics, and activists to contribute to Wikipedia and help revolutionize its culture." According to Inside Higher Ed, "students will be given lists of women who have played key roles in science and technology," and will tweak articles to acknowledge their contributions.

FemTechNet, which Juhasz calls "a collective of international feminist scholars, artists, and activists," is launching an online curriculum focused on educating people about the relationship between women and technology. Starting in September, instructors at 15 different colleges, including Brown, Yale, and Penn State University, will be offering "Dialogues on Feminism and Technology." Students taking the course will study technology through a feminist lens using prerecorded videos featuring prominent feminist scholars.

Who cares? What is this silly 3rd grade mentality that everything must be equal? "Storming Wikipedia," lol.

[tomder55]

I was not aware that Wiki was excluding women editors

[smoothy]

Just what they need... "students" that believe SHaka Khan built the pyramids along with his nubian warriers... and that Egyptions were figments of a WHite mans propaganda.

The same "Students" believe the Mezo-american pyramids were stolen from Egypt and should be returned.

The same "Students" who on average are horribly unprepared for college when the graduate?

[tomder55]

Lol then there are some that think it was impossible for ancient humans to build such structures and that it was aliens that did it .

[NeedKarma]

LOL... or a talking snake or talking burning bush or making a woman from a man's rib. Lol!

[tomder55]

Some people take the words more literal... some take it more allegorical

[NeedKarma]

So I hear.

[smoothy]

Some people also believe humans are the most intelligent beings in existence... despite ample evidence to the contrary.

[smoothy]

lol then there are some that think it was impossible for ancient humans to build such structures and that it was aliens that did it .

Hell, its impossible for large numbers of MODERN humans to change a flat tire... I think they share those two things in common.

[tomder55]

Hell, its impossible for large numbers of MODERN humans to change a flat tire.....I think they share those two things in common.

That's because we are going through de-evolution