Water Cooler

[John]

This thread is like the office water cooler, where you
stand around, pretend to be drinking water, and share
gossip about the other workers.

[Heisenberg]

As requested, this sub-forum is for partying, fun, gossip, conundrums, flirting, comedy, tragedy, or whatever.

*Puts on high heels*

[aeden]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Maxim+Borodin&t=hf&ia=web

[FishbellykanakaDude]

As requested, this sub-forum is for partying, fun, gossip, conundrums, flirting, comedy, tragedy, or whatever.

*Puts on high heels*

*Stares at said heels, in fnerkin' AWE!*

[FishbellykanakaDude]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Maxim+Borodin&t=hf&ia=web

Spooky stuff,.. but this is not flirting.

..unless,.. it IS!?

*Quickly switches attention back to Heisenberg's well toned calves.*

[John]

France's president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, who is 24
years older than her husband, are spending the day with Donald and
Melania Trump.

The media analysts are repeatedly expressing the view that Macron and
Trump have very surprisingly formed a close relationship ("bromance"),
despite their differences on the Iran nuclear agreement and climate
change.

It's easy enough to understand what's going on. I know from personal
experience that some young people vitriolically hate all older people,
while some really like older people.

Macron is clearly in the latter category because his wife is an older
person. So he likes Trump because he likes older people.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/bri ... d=54661699

The whole situation is sexist. If a 39 year old male teacher had had
sex with a 15 year old female student, then the teacher would have
been charged with rape and declared a child predator for life. But in
this case since the rapist was a woman, it's considered OK.

[thomasglee]

France's president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, who is 24
years older than her husband, are spending the day with Donald and
Melania Trump.

The media analysts are repeatedly expressing the view that Macron and
Trump have very surprisingly formed a close relationship ("bromance"),
despite their differences on the Iran nuclear agreement and climate
change.

It's easy enough to understand what's going on. I know from personal
experience that some young people vitriolically hate all older people,
while some really like older people.

Macron is clearly in the latter category because his wife is an older
person. So he likes Trump because he likes older people.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/bri ... d=54661699

The whole situation is sexist. If a 39 year old male teacher had had
sex with a 15 year old female student, then the teacher would have
been charged with rape and declared a child predator for life. But in
this case since the rapist was a woman, it's considered OK.

My wife is 8 years older than me. She is Korean though and so still looks younger than me!

Yes, you're right about the double standard.

[FishbellykanakaDude]

[im g]https://s.abcnews.com/images/Internatio ... x3_992.jpg[/img]

...

The whole situation is sexist. If a 39 year old male teacher had had
sex with a 15 year old female student, then the teacher would have
been charged with rape and declared a child predator for life. But in
this case since the rapist was a woman, it's considered OK.

Perhaps, but isn't that why we "love" the French, and their frenchy ways!?

Perhaps dealing with THAT specific situation; 15yr old precocious and hyper-intelligent FRENCH boy boonguh-boonguhs a 39 yrs old FRENCH "instructor" woman who was "into it!" (as they say); in an extra-legal manner is a better "fit" with all the characters involved, instead of a "one size fits all" life destroying kind of way, could be better?

..just sayin'!

Not promoting underage boonguhing, but there IS an obvious, if subtle, "natural" asymmetry in said relationships depending on who is older than whom. N'est-ce pas?

Aloha! <shaka!>

[Heisenberg]

Unfortunately (or fortunately for those into that sorta stuff ) there will likely always be "forbidden" love. Though some love is more forbidden than others. I grew up in Chicago and went to a public high school that was a mix of middle income whites and low income blacks. When you cross racial and socioeconomic boundaries the emotions become even more toxic. The relationships that did manage to make it through the turmoil left the families on both sides fractured and never really the "same". When it comes to such matters reason and equality go out the window.

[Higgenbotham]

Posted Feb. 21, 2008 – In Laurens County, S.C., where the tawdry topic of teacher-student sex is drawing far more attention than any of the townsfolk would like, there’s another issue being whispered out of earshot of the TV cameras – the issue of race.

In Laurens County , a northern South Carolina community of about 10,000 residents – 54 percent of whom are White and 44 percent of whom are Black – Tuesday’s jailing of 24-year-old Allenna Ward for six years marked the second imprisonment of a White female teacher for sex crimes against Black boys in less than a year.

Wendie Ann Schweikert, a former elementary school teacher, began serving a 10-year sentence in June for having sex with an 11-year-old Black boy.

Ward, the daughter of a preacher, admitted to having sex at the school where she taught, a park, a motel and a restaurant after school officials found a note she had written to one of the boys. She was sentenced to 15 years in prison for each of three counts of lewdness against the 14- and 15-year-old boys, but they were reduced to six years in prison, to run concurrently.

"I apologize from the depths of my heart," Ward told the victims and their families in a teary statement in court Tuesday.

Some African-American residents suggested that the punishment would have been harsher had the victims been White and the perpetrator Black.

https://www.bet.com/news/news/2008/02/2 ... ntsex.html