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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's Whitman, what do you expect?

Signed, 
A Whitman Graduate [/quote]

I personally dont think this is a whitman thing. I enjoyed my time at Whitman and found the staff was relatively supportive compared to other schools.

However, I do think it's a generational thing.  Again and again, boomers and xers seem to need to have it explained to them why sexual predation is unacceptable.  They. Just. Don't. Get. It.

I have no idea why anyone could hear a teenage girl saying her high school coach had been sexually pursuant of her, but dismiss because she just turned 18.  That is still so, so disgusting and a violation of every ethical code.

But soooo many older people need this stuff explained to them.  Then the board gives the notes the girls wrote TO the coach in question.

There is seriously a problem with older people just dismissing male predatory sexual behavior.  And that goes across the board. [/quote]

It may be a generational thing.  More boomers and Xers had parents or grandparents who married or had children young.  And we reached maturity at a time when the idea of sexual liberation was in vogue without the appreciation of the potentially coercive power dynamics.

So, yes, some may be slower to recognize abuse and quicker to rationalize unacceptable situations.  Hopefully articles like this are a wake-up call, although it's a shame it's still needed.

[On the other hand, things like "revenge porn" or asking people to send e[b]xplicit pictures of themselves that could then be passed around weren't really a thing decades ago[/b], so there were some compensating advantages.]

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Yes it was. There was  a video of a girl from my school going around. Her Potomac boyfriend had a friend video tape them having sex.

Also there is a nudie going around Pyle, cops get called every year about it, the girl is 30 by now. [/quote]

The 1st one was in the 80's.[/quote]

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