Wednesday, March 11, 2009

CNN.com headline: FAIL

CNN.com headline: Boy sleeps with two teachers?

Let me fix that for you...When an adult (or, in this case, two adults) has sex with a 13-year-old, we don't call it "sleeping with" or "having an affair" or any other cutesy Harlequin romance euphemism. We call it statutory rape. (Even if the child in question is a boy.)

Correct headline: Two teachers rape 13-year-old.

1 comment:

salemstudent said...

First of all-Thank God for a new post. I was suffering from major sideoftheroadblog withdrawal. Second-I couldn't agree with you more. People who think that a boy the victim of statutory rape is no big deal have obviously not read the stats on those victims' problems later in life with promiscuity and difficulty in forming and maintaining intimate bonds with women.