On Friday, the Washington Post published a morally bankrupt, stomach-turning puddle of click-bait calling for an end to the “fantasy that a high school student can’t consent to sex” with her teacher. See, writer Betsy Karasik was once a 14-year-old girl who knew other teens having “sexual relations with teachers.” And while “some feelings probably got bruised, no one I knew was horribly damaged and certainly no one died,” she insisted.
Anyway, you know who the real victim is here? Betsy Karasik, natch.
@WeeLaura My @ stream is so filled with hateful ad hominem attacks right now you may wanna DM if you don't get an answer from me.
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
No, I'm wishing ppl here knew how to engage in civil dialogue. MT @she_ide @jeffemanuel right abt now she's wishing she wasn't [on Twitter].
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
Interesting how many ppl feel that even discussing this issue is dangerous. What is dangerous is shouting down instead of rational debate.
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
I hope everybody who spent their evening attacking me personally in graphic and vicious terms feels much better about themselves now.
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
@BradleySpeaks That really was my principle point, though you'd never know it from the tsunami of attackers.
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
Isn’t she brave for wading into the “shit storm,” faux victimhood on full display?
Folks, I was warned my WaPo piece wld attract a shit storm; I only ask you to read the whole thing before responding http://t.co/oA5ORTcEvK
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
Oh, we read the whole revolting thing. Should we have picked up on more nuance in an op-ed lobbying for decriminalization of child rape? Was the takeaway supposed to be something other than the normalization of sexual abuse?
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Karasik will, of course, say that we’re distorting her words. Reminder: Those words appeared in a piece titled “Sex between students and teachers should not be a crime.” She now claims that title “skews the piece” — a piece that argues “consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized.”
.@myownpetard @larrymadill BTW I did not write the headline, feel it skews the piece, and have asked the Post to change it.
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
Really? It’s not, say, her broken moral compass that “skews the piece”? Karasik cites the example of a 54-year-old male convicted of “sexual intercourse without consent” with a female student. She was 14 years old at the time of the rape and later took her own life.
But hey, let’s let Betsy unskew:
https://twitter.com/HaikuCharlatan/statuses/373824966958936065
@HaikuCharlatan Something along the lines of "Is there a better way to deal with the issue of sex between students and teachers?"
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
Oh, sure. Asking if there’s a better way to deal with predators than punishing them for child-rape is a much less vile approach.
WaPo has since changed the title to “The unintended consequences of laws addressing sex between teachers and students.” Presumably that’s a Betsy-approved headline.
More hole-digging clarification from Karasik:
@lnmorton I never said teachers don't abuse power. I just said sometimes this doesn't rise to the level of a criminal offense.
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
@DFelsenfeld I never said that particular student consented, but I do question whether she wld have died if it had been handled differently.
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
@thatalexyarde Not at all. Not everything misconduct that warrants job removal is necessarily a criminal offense.
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
She’s against “rape,” just, y’know, not if you go by the definition shared by everyone with a smidgen of decency.
.@HC_Palmquist Sorry you feel that way. We happen to disagree on the definition of rape but I am as against what I consider rape as you are.
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) August 31, 2013
She also retweeted this:
@PaintsNature I understood your point. A teenager can consent. In fact we charge teens as adults for crimes, intriguing double standard.
— ⚖️ Never scared and rarely surprised. (@chicagostyle) August 31, 2013
A 14-year-old girl can “consent” to sex with a man more than three times her age? The pedophile/sex offender lobby thanks you for your service, Betsy.
Her playing of the victim card isn’t surprising considering where she sits politically.
Have y'all taken the http://t.co/dZvZAlGQ quiz? I had 95% agreement w Jill Stein, 80% agreement w Barack Obama, and 5% agreement w Romney.
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) November 6, 2012
RT @MoveOn: Top 10 shocking attacks from the GOP's war on women. Check it out, and share widely: http://t.co/bowJ2Rc //Paging @lizadonnelly
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) February 19, 2011
Oh. Hell. No.
LMAO… chart of who Romney has insulted to date (they left out women). h/t @MishaRN http://t.co/STOWlgNT
— B Karasik (@PaintsNature) September 18, 2012
Forgive us if we don’t give this gutter-dwelling lefty rape apologist the time of day when she wants to screech about a War on Women waged by Mitt Romney and the GOP. Feminists, she’s all yours.
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