My science partner used every opportunity to brush against, rub, slap, bump, and ultimately *pinch* my breasts. I scooted. I complained. I cried. I threatened. Finally, after the pinch I said ‘I will burn you or break this beaker in your hand. You will lose a finger and I’ll just be a clumsy girl.’.

A stick figure? My what artistic potential you had!

I think you meant, “If she had been a “Hot” girl then this would have never been a news story.”

the boy would have been given in school detention or something a bemused half smirk and an offhand “boys will be boys...” FTFY

Boys straight up grope and assault girls in junior high and high school all the time. Almost every woman you know has a story.

My first reaction was “hey, we’d take this a lot more seriously if the recipient was a girl!” then I remember that I was once a girl in junior high who got groped just about daily and no one ever did anything to stop it so...I stopped talking.

Yeah, you’re absolutely right. The girl would have been told not to wear such tight clothes and the boy would have been given in school detention or something.