ddc –
Re staying on topic: Look, you’re the one who’s talking about Texas cults and Catholic priests. Do try to pay attention. The judge’s statement that the female teacher would have gone to jail if she was a man is entirely germane to Dr. Helen’s article. Also, it underscores the bias that tilts reporting of molestation statistics to favor women via underreporting and not holding women accountable as men are held accountable.
Your “ew, homos are gross” argument is a logical fallacy of the “two wrongs don’t make a right” nature. Your counter arguments in defense of irresponsible female behavior all seem to be based on the idea that men are always worse, therefore, women aren’t so bad.
The statistic you cite does not specify whether it is comparing female teachers to male teachers or whether it is comparing female teachers to the incidence of molestation in the general population. Given that teachers in general have a lower incidence of criminality than the general population the statistic appears to be a cleverly worded deception that is not comparing the proper samples.
In any case, your source for this statistic is a comically screechy article on the Salon website based on a story that ran on NPR. Those two are as likely to have intelligent, fairly sourced articles about men’s rights as they are to have articles declaring Bush to be the greatest president in history. But thanks for confirming the nature of your tilted world view.
Finally, you seem to be the type of person who “wins” these sorts of internet arguments by being so persistently wooly-brained and disingenous, so tiresome, that people just give up and don’t even bother replying to you. I anxiously await your next insight, ha, ha.
