Originally Posted by
Danno
Those scenarios *are* changed in this very thread, there have been posts about men preying on female students, same sex teacher/student pairings, and varying ages. And people change their responses based on those differences. The ones that track most closely to our past reality as horndog teenage boys get the most jokes and positive responses, and as the age of the victim goes down, or the gender changes, get the more serious replies. And your complaints have been raised in some fashion since the very beginning of this thread (check page 1), it's not like people have been blind to what we're discussing. And look at post 53 and the subsequent discussion, the same people who made jokes about the "hot teacher" that was the original subject recognized that a 12 yo was not ok at all. In other words, we a) understand that we're just joking around about this topic and b) that the circumstances of the real people matter. Not every 16yo fucking a teacher is being raped or being taken advantage, but some are. We're all just joking in here, not truly discussing the power dynamics of the specific people in a specific news story that we don't know anything about.