I guess we can get used to almost anything.

Do you remember when the first stories came out about teachers having sexual relations with students? Even in a callused society like ours it was still considered scandalous.

The female teachers were 30ish and the students were 12 and 13 years old. As more and more such incidents were reported across the country, our sense of shock and outrage began to wane until we hardly noticed it at all.

We're minimizing what these educators are doing to our children. Have you noticed that in many of these cases it's a female teacher having sex with a young boy? Years ago there was an advertising campaign whose slogan was “You've come a long way, baby.” Well guess what? You have come a long way, baby; a long way down into the gutter of porn and perversion once considered the sole dominion of some men. Just recently a female teacher, who had already spent five months in jail for having sex with a 13-year-old boy, violated her parole by continuing to send the boy sexually explicit pictures and video of herself. She is 29 years old.

Isn't it great how women have become liberated? Women seem to escape jail time because they blame their behavior on medical disorders like manic depression or being postpartum. Nobody would buy that from a man. The shackles that once constrained us to lives of decency and propriety are being ripped off. These women are proving that they can be just as over-sexed and aggressive as men. It's all part of the great American gender switch. You know, where men and women switch roles.

Men are passive and women are masculine. Some people say the boys knew what they were doing. Well, I've got news for you; so do those girls that are hunted down by the male teachers. Regardless of whose doing what, our sons and daughters are victims.

These sexual predators are doing two things: they are prematurely exciting the sexuality of young boys and serving as the worst kind of role models for our girls.

When we drop our boys off to school, we expect them to be safe and taken care of, not seduced and molested. Reverse this scenario and a male teacher would be locked up from the get go. Teachers that defend themselves or even break up a fight at school could face jail time, but female teachers have proven that they can seduce and molest our sons and get away with it. It's a culture gone wrong and there's no quick fix.

When a woman and a man commit the same crime, they should serve the same time. The slogan for female perverts is “Go ahead and do the crime cause you won't have to do much time.”

Yep, you've come a long way, baby.

Ducayne's column appears

Tuesdays in The Citizen and

she can be reached at

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