No, that's part of the same bullshit mantra that this entire website rails against. To then passively condone it by intimating that this is somehow less than rape is bull. Hell, they aren't even being charged with rape.

Just because a person approves of an act doesn't make the act okay. He is a victim even if he's happy with it.

So you would be okay with an adult sleeping with your 16 year old son or daughter?

No, the kid is a "victim", both of these adult women and a society that can even consider such a statement. Fucking gross indeed.

I wouldn't be outraged if he was tried as a juvenile. I am outraged every time a young offender is "upgraded" to adult, in fact. Every time.

It's not about whether 16 is an adult or not, it's an abuse of power. Full stop.

Teachers who abuse students deserve an extra-severe sentencing.

You sound creepy.

Would we correct a young teen girl if she thought what she had with a two adult male teachers tag teaming her as just fine?

Only one use of the word "rape" in an article about two people raping someone. It's not even in the headline of the article.

There was no need for clarification though. You said the parents are gonna try to protect their child from intolerance and racism, and I said they can't because no matter where they go, Payton is going to experience intolerance and racism. I never accused you of putting responsibility on Payton. At all.

Ok, but the topic at hand is racism which only people of color go through.

"Also if this mother had a white kid, wouldn't she still want to shield her from intolerance and racism?"

I don't understand why their lawsuit has to justify anything beyond, "You gave us the wrong sperm."

As a bi-racial person myself I must say the fear that parents have for their bi-racial children is usually silly (just speaking from experience not all bi-racial people). Black people don't care, and white people can't tell if your Latino, Indian, Greek, Italian, so they also don't care (or hide it in case they are…

I understand the outrage and I sympathize with Eric. No one deserves to be bullied and/or harassed, no one deserves the kind of awful abuse he no doubt endured. However, he threw the first punch, in response to something said verbally. That equals an assault and battery charge.

Because you have provided no context. You don't know what happened to him any more then the rest of us. You also don't have a monopoly on having been bullied, threatened, and hurt for who you are, so maybe stop talking to everyone who doesn't believe that violence is ever justified like they're simpletons?

You're assuming that he's not going to be sentenced with 10 years commuted for good behavior, time served and five years of bullshit probation.

There's a huge amount of racism at play here. When they're not being characterized as sluts, black women are characterized as sexless and/or masculine. Not that there's anything wrong with a woman who's more masculine than most (and oh I could spend hours on how we categorize things as masculine or feminine) but this…

Ah, yes. Makes perfect sense now.