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Friday, March 21, 2008 10:50 PM

Not all women

Some - it would seem many - women are drawn to adolescent boys as sex partners. Just read the papers. One school board in Florida is calling an emergency session to address the issue in their district:

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/21/tampa-police-look-other-victims-teacher-sex-case/

School Board Members Want A Closer Look At Teacher-Student Sex Issue

By THOMAS W. KRAUSE of The Tampa Tribune and LYNN CARSON of News Channel 8

Published: March 21, 2008

Updated: 06:16 pm

TAMPA - A Hillsborough County school board official said she plans to hold an emergency meeting to figure out whether there are ways to prevent hiring teachers who might have a propensity to have sex with their students.

As police investigations continue into two teachers accused of having sex with students, the board's chairwoman, Jennifer Faliero, said today that she is calling an emergency board meeting. No date has been set.

The meeting will address the status of the teacher arrested Thursday, but also will discuss larger issues. With two teachers arrested seven days apart for having sex with students, Faliero said, officials need to figure out whether there is something they are missing.

She said she will invite members of the teachers union, representatives for the schools' staff and Hillsborough County State Attorney Mark Ober to the meeting.

"Right now we do one-on-one interviews with teachers and background checks," Faliero said. "Is there something we can do to predict if someone will have this behavior?"

Police arrested Mary Jo Spack, 45, Thursday, saying she met a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old student at a liquor store last week, bought alcohol and went to the Howard Johnson Express motel on Fowler Avenue. Other students arrived and heard Spack and the 17-year-old having sex in the shower, according to police reports.

On March 13, Stephanie Ragusa, 28, was arrested and is facing charges that she had sex with a 14-year-old student from January to May 2007.

At the school board's last meeting on Tuesday, Ragusa was suspended without pay. School officials said Spack is suspended with pay. The school board, which meets again on April 15, can alter that status.

In addition to the most recent arrests, Middleton High School special education teacher Christina Butler was arrested on similar charges last year. Newsome High School soccer coach Ronnie Lewis was arrested on similar charges in January. Their cases, likewise, are ongoing.

This morning, Tampa police Lt. Ronald McMullen said investigators were "assuming" Spack has more victims. The department later clarified his statement by saying there is no evidence to suggest that there are more victims. Department spokeswoman Andrea Davis said that if there are other victims, they should contact police.

Spack, of Wesley Chapel, is married and has a 13-year-old daughter. Neither the 17-year-old nor the 18-year-old was her student, police said.

Spack has posted $8,500 bail on Thursday and been released pending trial. She could not be reached for comment.

Friday, March 21, 2008 07:35 PM

@suzvet

Given the repeated, strident legal activities of several feminist groups to block joint custody legislation throughout the years, and men's groups' attempts to secure such legislation, your comment about "teaching the next generation of men how to walk away from their children" should refer to those children's mothers, not their fathers.

Friday, March 21, 2008 07:27 PM

Data free analysis

Haven't heard that one about unwed mothers' motivations, rhubarb.

Anything having to do with legal, moral or ethical limitations on women's actions tends to be a minefield.

If women can murder their children and husbands or sleep with young boys with impunity and no accountability from our legal system, why shouldn't they have children out of wedlock.

After all, it's not about the children. It's about what women want.

Friday, March 21, 2008 10:33 AM

@tina

An "open-ended two week relationship"?

You were right to move on.

Friday, March 21, 2008 10:32 AM
Original article: Five years and counting

@Greeneyed

Read the survey, and we can have an informed discussion.

Refuse to read the survey, start ranting about your anti-male bias, and you are the troll.

You are the troll.

Friday, March 21, 2008 07:49 AM
Original article: Five years and counting

@Greeneyed

I agree with you!

You have been ignoring facts and statistics your whole life.

You're doing it now, so, you're right, I shouldn't be surprised.

Stay ignorant of the facts! It keeps you happy!

Thursday, March 20, 2008 08:44 PM
Original article: Five years and counting

@Greeneyedkzin

The phrase from Matthew could be interpreted as referring to the rotten core of feminism and those hypocrites who subscribe to it.

That description seems to fit you very well, Greeneyedkzin, as you didn't even bother to go to the study I indicated in my first post before lashing out in a hypocritical rant.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!"

Thursday, March 20, 2008 08:03 PM
Original article: Five years and counting

@Greeneyedkzin

Read the link at the beginning of my post. The data are from the Federation of American Scientissts website, which posted the PDF of the Congressional Research Service study from which the data were obtained.

Hardly an "MRA" site.

Try to hold back your shrill, anti-male bias for just a second, if that's possible. I know it's hard - your hormones are raging, and you're filled with righteous indignation at your oppression, which you probably learned about at an expensive private college.

On the other hand, your fact-free ranting serves a greater purpose, I suppose. Along with Gloria Steinem's insane ramblings and Geraldine Ferraro's racist proclamations, your words also illustrate the sick, rotten heart at the core of American feminism.

Alongside those harridans, your lack of respect for facts, your deep, seething hatred against white people, and men in particular, and your obvious deep self-involvement verging on the pathological about your imagined victimhood perfectly lay bare the sickness that is American feminism.

Good job!

Thursday, March 20, 2008 08:32 AM
Original article: Five years and counting

Five year fallout and its effect on men in both Iraq and Afghanistan, no less

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22452.pdf

All numbers are current as of August 4, 2007. Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding.

Table 2. OIF Gender Distribution of Deaths

Gender Military Deaths % of Total Deaths

Male 3,584 97.9

Female 76 2.1

Total 3,660 100.0

Source: DOD, Operation Iraqi Freedom — Military Deaths, at

[http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/oif-deaths-total.pdf].

Table 3. OEF Gender Distribution of Deaths

Gender Military Deaths % of Total Deaths

Male 406 97.1

Female 12 2.9

Total 418 100.0

Source: DOD, Operation Enduring Freedom — Military Deaths, at

[http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/OEFDEATHS.pdf].

Thursday, March 20, 2008 08:27 AM
Original article: Five years and counting

@Greeneyedkzin

The vast majority of the dead and crippled Americans and Iraqis are young men, not young women.

Your bias against half of humanity is disgusting.

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