on it.

You are very welcome! You can buy me a book about drunk unicorns.

I'd like to buy you a drink or a unicorn or a book or anything of that nature. Thank you for all you do, GAB.

It's beyond gross. And everyone knew. (Well, maybe not *knew* but most people had STRONG suspicions. I'm sure some knew in the literal sense as well.)

I, too had a friend who was groomed by a teacher. Your story sounds very familiar to the one I know of. Eerily familiar. It was a basketball coach. I still cannot believe this went on.

Oh, yes, that is true. If you only count the rapes that get reported, that number goes all the way up to 7%. (In 2011 and 2012, and according to the US Justice Department.) Are you actually going to argue that the convictions of sexual assault are not pathetically low? Because if you are, you are ignoring all fact and…

Yeah, especially the part where she talks about how all the 14-year-old girls she was friends with at that age were just their raging hormones. Sure, at 14 I remember everyone being fascinated with sex, but mostly we didn't think about sex with teachers (because ugh, old).

If you're talking about sex with a 14 year old and you're almost 50, that's pretty damned morally bankrupt too.

When I was a carpentry instructor a few years back, it never occurred me to try and fuck the young women in my classes, even though they were over 18.

The reason was simple - I was hired to teach those young women and their male classmates basic carpentry skills.

Getting my dick sucked by those women was nowhere…

I'm pretty sure my life was sad and lonely without my cat.

So, wait. She's suggesting that the victim killed herself because she was upset that the rapist was going to be punished, rather than the fact that she was utterly traumatized because she was raped by a 49-year-old man (and also her teacher) and was suffering from the effects of that? Like, she was doing some…

In all seriousness, I feel that the writer of this WaPo opinion was likely the victim of some kind of assault by an authority figure in the past and she has tried to “normalize” her experience by thinking of it as “consensual”. She deserves our pity, and I genuinely hope she is able to get some helpful therapy.

Seriously? Fuck you, lady. I'm a teacher. No teachers should be anywhere NEAR having sex with a student for ANY REASON EVER. Even if it's for some reason legal, you are in a position of authority and trust. Even if they're totally hitting on you like mega-hard!!! - they are adolescents trying out adult behaviour on…

My fur dude brings home big fat dead rats and puts them on the floor in my bedroom, right where I step out of bed. Just so I don't miss out. Oh Stevie! Murder presents! You shouldn't have!

That cat doesn't look all that interested in being cuddled so hard.

To the best of her ignorant, bigoted, siding-with-the-rapists-knowledge, those relationships were consensual. Yeah. Nope.

If that is what she meant, she should have stated it as clearly as you just did.

Okay, I'm about to tell one of my favorite 'Dave is a dumbass' cat stories. Get some popcorn.

All my cats ever did was bring half-dead moles INTO the house. Useless fucks.