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Grocery store employee accused of having sex with teenage baggers
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"Assuming these teen baggers are male, I'm sure they violently resisted her advances and are traumatized by the whole thing"
If comments like these were made in a forum discussing the rape of two teenage girls by a supervisor, they would surely be deemed too offensive, childish, and dangerously naieve to be posted! Yet here they sit, evidence of the continued stupidity of mankind.
If a handsome (or otherwise) male manager/teacher coerces a minor girl into having sex, it is still labeled for what it is. Rape. The act of a predatory, evil deviant not fit to interact with society and he is rightfully removed from it.
Yet change the pronoun descriptions and the fault is suddenly on the victim? Compulsion is still compulsion, and sex with minors is still illegal. Boys will be boys is not a valid excuse for corruption of the young. Even if those boys were entirely compliant and willing, this woman still commited felonies. She is a rapist, and belongs with the rest of the rapists at the point of the mountain.
Hope none of them make the jury.
If this were about a nearly 40 year old man enticing 14 year old girls nobody would be wondering whether the girls were victims. In fact, consider your own reaction if this were a 40 year old man enticing 14 year old boys? Would anyone wonder if the "boys got exactly what the wanted" or whether "the violently resisted" or were really victims?
Our laws preventing sexual relations between adults and children exist for good reason: to protect children. Adults are presumed able to manipulate children. Children are presumed not to know what might be in their own best interest.
A whole lot of "men" need to grow up, drop their adolescent fantasies of an attractive, older woman "educating" them, and recognize the damage done to developing boys' views of sex, women, and themselves when they are taken advantage of in such ways. Indeed, considering that girls often mature intellectually and emotionally sooner than boys, these incidents may very well be MORE damaging to boys than they they would be to girls, all else being equal.
I guess bagging groceries has its rewards. But just how did the 15 year olds get the job in the first place?
More women would be reported if there were a better way to take care of the children left at home in such situations.
I do think that we have successfully identified that Harmons is actually promoting age discrimination in it's hiring practices (telling a candidate who they do not want to hire something other than the truth), the funny thing...they're using discrimination as a cover instead of acknowledging their unwillingness to hire someone.
Harmons' qualifying age is 15, and this is the same in all grocery stores (except Wal-Mart) because finding anyone over the age of 16 willing to do this work is near impossible.
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