Sexual Predatorette
Out of context: Reply #65
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- locustsloth0
"Girls and women, rightly or wrongly, face stigmas because of sexual activity. Men don't."
"The idea that she has harmed these boys is silly. They'll be the envy of everyone at their school, and more popular than they were before."
In these two quotes you are making a broad generalization and assumption. That is, that the boy doesn't, and won't ever, feel like they had been taken advantage of. i'll grant you, most teenagers would jump at the chance to have sex. And, in the moment, they may have even been complicit in the act, physically enjoying it.
The problem is boys that age are not emotionally mature enough to decide whether or not it is the right time to have sex. This woman has capitalized on that lack of discretion, using the implicit authority in her age and the bribes, to convince them that it was. Eventually that power dynamic will come back to haunt them and, like someone else said, they may very will seek to right that deficiency of power by taking power over another, younger person.
Moreover, these quotes are ignorant of the fact that if, in the days and weeks following the act, these boys do feel taken advantage of, they will likely not feel that they can say so.
Think of the peer reaction to a 13 yr old saying "i didn't like that i had sex and got money and presents. This merit of popularity that you see as a blessing on these kids is actually a muzzle, discouraging them from paying attention to how they actually feel about the event, rather than how everyone around them THINKS they should feel. And suppression of these feeling can lead to mental and emotional damage.