Two conversations from Burning Man…
A father: “I don’t mind if my daughter is gay. Maybe I will get to hang out with Dick Cheney’s daughter. Also I won’t have to kill any boys.”
A mother: “It wouldn’t be so bad if my boys turn out to be gay. Then they won’t be at risk for a woman having sex with them and later accusing them of rape.”
The latter comment led to a discussion of Owen Labrie, in the news shortly before Burning Man following his partial acquittal on charges of raping a fellow high school student at St. Paul’s in New Hampshire (nytimes). “She probably started it to get cash out of his family,” said one Burner, “and then when they wouldn’t or couldn’t pay she had no choice but to keep going.” (As noted in this posting about Missoula, being a rape victim could have led to $millions from the school.) “The same thing happened at my boarding school in Argentina,” said another Burner. “The girl was a notorious liar and she’d had sex with a lot of guys so the guy wasn’t convicted, but his life was ruined just by the accusation.” What happened to him ultimately? She responded that “He and his family had to emigrate to the U.S. and start over.”
This is not specifically a comment on either of the above cited examples—what’s more there to say—but it made me wonder: given current woman=victim state of male-female relations, are there/ why aren’t there/ vocal parental activist groups demanding that their (esp. straight male) teenagers be taught in schools about the kind of attraction minefield they’ll soon be trespassing? I.e. rather than dykes, femme fatales to watch for. Or maybe that’d smell too much of a SEX EDUCATION, which we can all agree is the work of the Devil.
BONUS: Ernest Hemingway succumbs to a predatory Arkansan heiress, feels remorse about it.
Being a woman = hot sex with women, even underage women, without stupid rape accustions. Not bad, I’d say, not bad…