SNL double standard teacher rape skit

[zekko]

Saturday Night Live performed this skit on their last episode, it demonstrates the double standard between males and females. In this skit, a male high school student had a threesome with two of his female teachers. This kind of comedy has been done before in different places (South Park also did a similar storyline), where if it an underage male, he is portrayed as being a lucky guy. As opposed to if it were a male teacher and a female student, in which case the girl has been traumatized and the man is a monster.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/teacher-trial/2858431

It's great that the laws, at least, are consistent between the sexes in these situations. But I still have to think there is something unfair going on. Let's face facts, if a young male is fortunate enough to have sex with an attractive experienced female, this is probably going to be a high point in his life and not a traumatic event.

I have a friend my age who was around 14-15 when an older, attractive neighbor woman took him in and showed him what sex was all about. To this day, he considers this one of the best things that ever happened to him. And to this day, he considers himself a superior lover to most men because he received detailed "instruction" at a young age.

Now I guess technically that was a crime, but to be honest I can't see where there was any victim there. If anything, I envy the guy.

Now I can't see it from the female perspective, so I don't know why if it's a male he's being done such a favor, while if it's a girl it's a horrible, terrible thing.

 

[speed dawg]

Saturday Night Live performed this skit on their last episode, it demonstrates the double standard between males and females. In this skit, a male high school student had a threesome with two of his female teachers. This kind of comedy has been done before in different places (South Park also did a similar storyline), where if it an underage male, he is portrayed as being a lucky guy. As opposed to if it were a male teacher and a female student, in which case the girl has been traumatized and the man is a monster.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/teacher-trial/2858431

It's great that the laws, at least, are consistent between the sexes in these situations. But I still have to think there is something unfair going on. Let's face facts, if a young male is fortunate enough to have sex with an attractive experienced female, this is probably going to be a high point in his life and not a traumatic event.

I have a friend my age who was around 14-15 when an older, attractive neighbor woman took him in and showed him what sex was all about. To this day, he considers this one of the best things that ever happened to him. And to this day, he considers himself a superior lover to most men because he received detailed "instruction" at a young age.

Now I guess technically that was a crime, but to be honest I can't see where there was any victim there. If anything, I envy the guy.

Now I can't see it from the female perspective, so I don't know why if it's a male he's being done such a favor, while if it's a girl it's a horrible, terrible thing.

We've just lost touch with everything natural and logical. It's human instinct to take care of the weak, but at the same time the weak demand equality. You can't have both.

It's just like Danger said in another thread - we have it so good now that we can afford to talk about social issues, where before we did what it took to SURVIVE. In other words, we've gotten fat and happy. It's sort of a 'what could have been' to me, imagine if we stopped with the ridiculous social justice campaign, and actually assessed facts and used logic and nature to CONTINUE the true progressiveness of society? We probably could have been living on the moon at the moment.

But there again, it also seems completely natural to get fat and happy, collapse, and build up again.

 

[Maximus Rex]

You actually watch Saturday Night Live or you saw this on a news feed?

 

[zekko]

You actually watch Saturday Night Live or you saw this on a news feed?

I've watched every season of Saturday Night Live in its entirety since it started back in the 70s. Some say it was only good with the original cast, but I don't agree with that. It's always been up and down. I think Chris Farley was the funniest cast member who has ever been on the show.

I think it's just as easy for a young man/teen to be "preyed" on by an adult female, and it doesn't necessarily make him lucky. Context and circumstances matter. If it's someone with power over him (teacher) or he trusts (friend of family) it could easily be damaging. I've read books about murderers, and sometimes it turns out they were molested by nannies.

You're probably right. I may be wrong about this, but I have a gut feeling that how "damaging" or "enjoyable" a young man might find the experience probably depends on a few factors:

1) How old is the male? Is he past puberty? I'm guessing the older he is, the less damaging.
2) Was the sex consensual? In the case of my friend, he was all too happy to go along with it. No one was "forcing" him to do anything. Of course the law says that youngsters don't have the ability to consent. I wonder how many males initially went along with and enjoyed the experience then later changed their mind? What about females?
3) How hot the older woman was? Self-explanatory.

 

[Maximus Rex]

I've watched every season of Saturday Night Live in its entirety since it started back in the 70s.

Sorry to hear that, bruh.

Some say it was only good with the original cast, but I don't agree with that. It's always been up and down. I think Chris Farley was the funniest cast member who has ever been on the show.

I think that SNL is vastly overrated and is only this perceived iconic status because it's been on for so long. Also, it makes funny people extraordinarily unfunny. How is it that Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan are on SNL and are wack as f*ck, but 30 Rock comes on and they're suddenly funny as hell, and why are SNL skits news. Every Sunday or I'll see on the internet some random story about an SNL skit?

 

[zekko]

Of course, the kid gloves have been on the past eight years or so of the Obama presidency....no one seems to want to take him on

I like the show, but that doesn't mean it's flawless. The show has always leaned to the left. Forget Obama, if you look at how Democratic presidents (or candidates) have been portrayed on the show throughout its run, they have always been cast in a more favorable light than their Republican counterparts.

In fact, most comedy from Democratic presidents comes from how "smart" they are. There was a Jimmy Carter sketch where he was on a call in radio show that portrayed him as an expert on practically everything, including how to talk down a guy who was having a bad acid trip. Clinton was also portrayed as a brilliant but lascivious ladies man. In comparison, Ford was a clumsy bumbler, and both Bushes were also portrayed as idiots.

Anyway, that aside, I agree the show is not at its best right now. The current cast is not particularly memorable. There has been better, but there has also been worse.