*growls*

[agilebrit]

Barbara Walters just made me yell at my TV.

She was talking about Mary Kay Letourneau and her "love affair" with a twelve-year-old student.

NEWSFLASH, Barbara. That wasn't a freaking "love affair." That was a MOLESTATION. I don't care if the boy is 21 now and they want to get married. He was TWELVE FUCKING YEARS OLD. If some damb teacher got PREGNANT from having SEX with my TWELVE YEAR OLD CHILD, TWICE, I'd want her to spend a hell of a lot longer than just seven lousy years in prison.

Yes. I am aware that I'm yelling. I am aware that some may find this entry controversial. I don't fucking care. It's not many things that make me drop f-bombs. News reporters practically endorsing child molestation by calling it a "love affair" is one.

Holy CRAP.

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Amen!

[honorh.livejournal.com]

The fact that this woman gets any sympathy at all is beyond me. If a male teacher had done the same to a twelve-year-old girl, he'd rightly be called a monster. I don't see how LeTourneau is any different.

Re: Amen!

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I don't either. The hypocrisy is staggering. Any respect I ever had for Barbara Walters' journalistic integrity just went flying out the window at warp 12. She's obviously retiring far too late.