Spoilers.
I have been really enjoying this show, in spite of its faults it is fun and light and sweet. But this episode astounded me. Apparently if you're a 15 year old BOY who gets raped by their teacher it's totally different than if a 15 year old GIRL was raped by their teacher. Everyone either looks askance at him, as though he was a complicit adult doing something wrong, or as Carrie says, they "admire him." The double-standard that media has when it comes to teacher-student statutory rape is disgusting and damaging to society as a whole. I can't believe these writers could be this clueless.
I have been really enjoying this show, in spite of its faults it is fun and light and sweet. But this episode astounded me. Apparently if you're a 15 year old BOY who gets raped by their teacher it's totally different than if a 15 year old GIRL was raped by their teacher. Everyone either looks askance at him, as though he was a complicit adult doing something wrong, or as Carrie says, they "admire him." The double-standard that media has when it comes to teacher-student statutory rape is disgusting and damaging to society as a whole. I can't believe these writers could be this clueless.
