Marriage Is an Institution

Wedding bells are in the air for Mary Kay LeTourneau and Vili Fualaau, and isn’t it about time these two crazy kids got hitched? Get them a gift.

People have often noted that society normally treats statutory rape differently depending on whether the older person is a man or a woman. A man is assumed to be exploiting the young girl, whereas an older woman is assumed to be showing the young man a hot time. This seems about right to me.

If one of the lady teachers at my high school had decided to show me a good time, it wouldn’t have been exploitation, it would have been a fond memory. (I seem to remember that Linda was kind of prickly, but I suspected she knew how to have a good time when she wanted to.) I’m not sure a female student would feel the same way about the male teachers.

Of course, I’m talking about high school. Vili Fualaau was in sixth grade when Mary Kay introduced him to the mystery that is woman. Unless he was held back a whole bunch of times, that’s a bit creepy.

On another topic: If a rapist (albeit a statutory rapist) is allowed to marry her victim, could somebody explain to me again how gays would destroy the institution of marriage?