An adult having sex with a child is rape, regardless of what either adult or child says.

People sometimes just don't understand these power dynamics. I had a huge huge huge boner for my music teacher in high school who was young and 10 years older than me. At the time I thought "HAVE AT IT DUDE." But as a grown as woman I'm glad that never happened. I was so easily influence and swayed that he could have…

Uh, you should probably try reading because the outrage is everywhere. Nice try, though.

If you are going to call it rape (which it was) why hell did you not put that in your headline, she didn't have sex with him it was rape.

It gets drawn somewhere on THAT side of "14-year-old special needs student and his teacher".

Are you suggesting this 14 year old kid wasn't raped?

Here are some other really interesting statistics while we're at it:

yeah cause that's not skewing this to a racial demographic or anything.

no see, it's your MOM's fault. if it's not YOUR fault, we must find some OTHER woman to blame it on, so let's pin it on your mother.

WaPo made a big mistake when they reduced their editorial board to one member:

I'm confused. Do they want us to just get married to anyone, or to marry our fathers? Because it sounds a lot like they're leaning toward the second option and I'm not comfortable with that. Nor, I believe, would be either of my parents. Or society. Or most laws in most states.

That's because, they argue, men care more about their female partners and kids after they get married because ~*marriage*~.

It isn't. But the reason those women aren't victims of violence has a lot more to do with socio economic status than marital status specifically.

Okey doke, I'll just head down to the husband store and pick one up. Because we all have a line of suitors who want to marry, love and protect us from other men.

Is the Washington Post like the Thought Catalog now where any stupid idea gets published? They used to be better than this.

BREAKING NEWS: Domestic violence is no more. Sources say that reports of domestic disputes have dropped to zero.

If you're being serious:

The first two cited authors are women of color, Jamilah Lemieux and Ayesha Siddiqi:

It's not always white authors. It's authors of color too, it's just that most people don't pay attention to them.