Letters to the Editor
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Surprised.
I'm surprised that so many men in this thread seem to identify with the perps in this case. Unless this child had a hormonal disorder, she did not have breasts or hips. You can paint up a child's face, but a child's body is a child's body.
It's a simple fact that men molest children at a staggeringly higher rate than women do. I think attention should be paid to each, in proportion to incidence. That would mean that - and I'm being generous - 80% of attention should be paid to male sex offenders, and 20% should be paid to female sex offenders. It's interesting, though, that men who seem to feel child molestation is a feminist issue wish equal time to be given to each, and in fact cannot wait to bring up the unusual existence of female sex offenders and demand that phenomenon be treated as one that is as pervasive as the existence of male sex offenders.
Finally, I'm revolted by people who speak of male children molested by adult females as being "lucky." Those people, for the record, are almost exclusively male. I've never heard a woman defend women who molested children as possibly simply being mistaken about their age, and the women who voice the revolting thought that women molesting boys is a case of a very fortunate boychild are parroting what they've heard men say.