Quite honestly, hearing the words "teacher" and "caught", and "sex", in the same sentence, I can only feel relief on realizing that it's between adults.
Also, I laughed really hard when I read the first sentence of the steak-throwing. And then I just got sad reading the rest of it.
I went to that high school, and one of those women was my teacher for two years. This really does not surprise me at all. Nor do I feel that bad for her. She always had some major boundary issues. I'm kind of surprised she didn't get in trouble for something before this
@colormeroutine: I grew up by that school! (but didn't end up going there). Sort of odd to say Brooklyn Pride for a post about a sex-escandalo but there we have it. Brooklyn pride indeed. It's just rare to read about that part of Brooklyn other than when cricket players get hit by lightning in Marine Park. True story.
Would the story about the teachers have been written if it were a heterosexual couple? I doubt it would have been written in the style it was - talking about their tattoos, interviewing 16-year-olds to find out if their teachers were "sexy."
I guess the bigger question is if the teachers would have been dismissed if they were a hetero couple.
@LoSpaz: Its the Daily News so, well, it would still be tabloidish even if they were hetero. But probably not as much as it is with two "good-looking" young women.
And I agree with Ms. Skittles. They were undressing in a classroom and that is all it should take.
@LoSpaz: I think they would have been dismissed if they were heterosexual. Undressing and/or engaging in sexual activity on school grounds is a no-no, and doing it while there are students in the building adds another degree of inappropriateness to the mix.
@LoSpaz: Oh, it definitely wouldn't have. That would be a 'they're damaging our youth' kind of story, not 'lolz lesbians.'
Though I initially misread it as "getting ready during a talent show" and was very confused. Wouldn't it make sense for them to be changing for a show or whatever? But the "international language of love" line set me straight.
@LoSpaz: The story would probably have been written differently, but I'm pretty sure that hetero teachers would have been dismissed. Kids were in the building and if a janitor found them, kids could have as well.
Also-I think a teacher would have been dismissed if they were masturbating in an abandoned classroom.
@Lymed: You are both right about the inappropriate behavior around students. I was just so taken aback by the tone of the story. I shouldn't be but I am.
@thecameralovesyou: I love this. My husband randomly says this all the time. But seriously, it seems to me that they were probably changing in the classroom for a skit or something, as someone upthread said. They must be desperate for stories.
Okay, the malpractice case? I was sitting here all judgmental and "oh cry me a river, you were drinking underage passed out you weenie...OH HOLY SHIT AMPUTATED BOTH LEGS?!"
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Yeah, that's going in my "terrify the young'uns" file for sure. Don't drink until you're legal, you could lose both of your legs! .... also, aaaagh!
@la.donna.pietra: Right! Whatever happened to the good old days when kids would wait until their twenty-first birthday to do crazy, potentially deadly shit with alcohol?
Something tells me this lady will have a rather low-key birthday next year. I hope.
@Dauphine: Yeah, I thought about her when I was reading this article. I understand that some ERs are dangerously understaffed, and that's a huge problem, but someone should have noticed that she was passed out and in an unsafe position.
@NellMood: She was not sitting on her legs at the hospital.. she was at home when that happened and was eventually found by her sister and then taken to the hospital by ambulance. This article has more detail: [www.pittsburghlive.com]
@la.donna.pietra: I had the same reaction, but if you read the article, she was passed out somewhere (not the emergency room) alone for 12 hours with her legs under her (a relative found her). She is suing the hospital because when she came in with complaints of pain in her legs (she was still apparently very drunk) they did not correctly diagnose her in time.
@yvanehtnioj: I was thinking the same thing, but suddenly I'm really glad for my overactive drunk bladder; it has been known to wake me from some really funky sleeping positions at all hours of the night for a little jog to the bathroom.
@warhol's gnarwol: It's not so much my bladder, but if I get seriously drunk I just cannot get a good sleep going. I'll wake up about 4.25 hours later all cranky and determined never to drink so much again. So, that's lucky.
@yvanehtnioj: Me too! I'm an old biddy now, but back in the day (i.e. university), whenever I got really wasted I would be up at the crack of dawn the next day. It really sucked.
@yvanehtnioj: That happens to me too and it sucks! I can go to bed at 4am and still wake up at 8. But I guess now I should be thankful that I won't need my legs amputated.
You know what? If I found myself in a subway car with a lunatic like the one described in the NYC incident, I would hope like hell that it was being operated by someone as on her game as Adeline Bayne-Goody. This "gross misconduct" charge sounds like bullshit.
I almost went to see Palin "for shts and giggles" yesterday, but the images on the TV news of many people camped out at the Costco discouraged me. Strike that, they depressed the hell out of me.
@whats_in_a_name: There's nothing more American than getting people to pay an outrageous price for something they don't really even need. Brava, Ms. Palin. Not everyone is as dedicated to capitalism as you.
@bananaballs: I just came back to write this exact same thing. That was horrific. It's really disheartening to get a glimpse of what some people really think about rape and what constitutes consent.
@BuffySummers: I like this one: Text messaging isn't the easiest thing in the world to do.
Telephone keyboard only have a dozen or so keys, and since there's 26 possible letters plus punctuation marks, one usualy has to strike a key several times in order to produce a single letter.
It takes a minute ot two to type and send a short message.
Yeah, you can get these new-fangled phones with a full keyboard now. It would take me less than a minute and a half to type out that message and some people could do it a lot faster.
@bananaballs: Okay, despite your wise advise, I looked anyway. Very uncool. But what baffled me was some comment about how hard it is to text and how it takes so much time. Texting is unbelievably easy, especially if you have a lot of practice and predictive text. I just tried entering that message on my phone with one hand, barely looking, and it took less than fifteen seconds. A more skilled texter could probably do it even faster. That woman was smart. She got help without pissing off her attacker and making him escalate. She has my respect.
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Also, I laughed really hard when I read the first sentence of the steak-throwing. And then I just got sad reading the rest of it.
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I guess the bigger question is if the teachers would have been dismissed if they were a hetero couple.
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And I agree with Ms. Skittles. They were undressing in a classroom and that is all it should take.
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Though I initially misread it as "getting ready during a talent show" and was very confused. Wouldn't it make sense for them to be changing for a show or whatever? But the "international language of love" line set me straight.
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Also-I think a teacher would have been dismissed if they were masturbating in an abandoned classroom.
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Something tells me this lady will have a rather low-key birthday next year. I hope.
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I imagine this was much the same.
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Third, don't sit like that, it's bad for you.
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"Her pants were off, she must have wanted it!"
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Text messaging isn't the easiest thing in the world to do.
Telephone keyboard only have a dozen or so keys, and since there's 26 possible letters plus punctuation marks, one usualy has to strike a key several times in order to produce a single letter.
It takes a minute ot two to type and send a short message.
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Two other particularly awful themes:
"So she was being raped and could text at the same time? Sure..."
"She must have had a part in this...
A huge F off to everyone in that comment section.