Zoellner's Sounding Board

From the “there must be something more important than this going on somewhere in the world” department, the following was dredged:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSKUA04469620080620

This story has been in the ‘top ten’ most popular articles list on the Reuters site for nearly a full week.  Meanwhile, the Middle East is busily finding new and exciting ways to enjoy the 14th century, Africa is seeing how widely and quickly it can spread HIV (we hear raping virgins is a pretty effective method), and Palestinians are seeing how irritating they can be before Israel crushes them.  What is Reuters doing?  Reporting on a woman in LA who is 52, but thinks she’s 22.  When you sustain injuries related to a rhinestone heart that was attached to your blue thong (because the color is the important point here, after all), it may just be time to take a step back and contemplate why you’re still wearing underwear with little sparkly things on it when you’re a half century old.

Then again, there’s always the possibility that this woman is a traffic cop by day and seduces teenage boys by night (seems the hip thing to do these days).  Then, maybe the little sparkly things on her underwear are a good plan.  Something should distract these boys from the fact that they’re having their first sexual encounter with a woman almost old enough to be their grandmother (if we’re in certain parts of the world, definitely old enough).  Of course, prosecuting these women is just laughable.  Did they commit a crime?  Certainly.  Is it an act worth prosecuting or even labelling as a crime?  No.

One would be hard pressed to say that having sex with an older woman scars teenage boys.  Last I checked, men aren’t really emotionally scarred by the lack of a ‘higher’ connection in sexual encounters.  At the very least, let’s take a look at how most of these women are caught: the ‘victims’ brag to their friends, who in turn either 1) have sex with the same woman or 2) tell their parents.  People rarely brag about being the victims of an actual crime (if someone mugs you, it’s highly unlikely you’ll tell all your friends how great you are because you were worth mugging).  Just give these woman a slap on the wrist (community service and an eHarmony coupon) and move along.  There are more important things going on in the world, like the hidden danger of thong gems.

~ by Zoellner on Tuesday 24 June 2008. Tagged: Africa, HIV, Israel, Middle East, older woman, palestinians, reuters, rhinestone heart, sexual encounters, teenage boys, thong, underwear, virgins