Police say a former student came forward claiming that when he was 14, Melissa Curtis, 31, sexually abused him

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    1 year ago

    I’m just amazed that it was called ‘sexual abuse’ and not ‘an intimate relationship’, a ‘romp’, etc. like it usually is.

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      It’s taken a while but looks like we’ll be able to call a sexual abuser a sexual abuser regardless of gender!

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    I really don’t understand the psychology that pushes someone to do something like this. I suppose I should be glad about that

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        This is one of those things that, if you feel the need to draw a distinction, you’re doing something wrong and need to stop.

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          Knowledge can be pain.
          Knowledge can also lead to learning something (new) and to make something better.

          I’d say it’s difficult to solve problems if you don’t know, what is what or what is going on in the first place.
          It’s easier to help people overcome problems and to possibly treat deficiencies or non-normal behavior when you learn their story and when you start working on it together 🙂

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          Anyone who doesn’t want to know more about something their passionate about seems suspect to me.

          Knowing these kinds of things can help discover the reasons for why they happen, and thus help prevent it in the future. Saying there’s no point in discussing it is saying you don’t actually want to do anything about it, you just want to be angry about it.

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          No. You’re just someone who doesn’t want to acknowledge nuance if it doesn’t suit your agenda.

          Glad I’ve come to recognize your kind for what they are.

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            You’re arguing for nuance in a thread about a grown woman raping a 14 year old child. You’ve left several comments saying how lucky the kid is. You are fucking disgusting.

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              Yeah. Thanks for proving my point.

              Gonna block you now.

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                Good? You’re either a pedophile or a pedophile apologist. I reported you either way lol.

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    That is a horribly misleading headline when the write up clearly says she was 22 and he was 14 at the time. She is 31 now and he is now 22.

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      Sorry, are you saying it’s ok for a 22 year old to have sex with a 14 year old? I don’t really think there’s a big different in a 31 year old doing it vs a 22 year old, so I’m not sure that’s really the issue you should have with this article.

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        Never said that. I said that the title is wrong. Really shows a lack of quality of writing when the title of the article contradicts the article itself

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          But it doesn’t? It just says “when he was 14”, not “he is 14 and she is 31”.

          The name and age of the lady in the little blurb under the title indicate her current age, not the age of when she did it.

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            Right after the age of the boy when she did, though. It’s awkwardly phrased and misleading. Just because you can justify something by saying “it’s not technically wrong” doesn’t change that.

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          The title doesn’t mention their ages. The subtitle is awkwardly phrased because it gives the student’s age at the time and her age now, but it’s not wrong, and again, I don’t really get why you’re quibbling about that when the point that it was an adult sexually abusing a child stands regardless.