The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163124   Message #3888451
Posted By: Steve Shaw
13-Nov-17 - 09:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Age of consent
Subject: RE: BS: Age of consent
We are not sensitive enough to the signs and signals, for sure. I do think that there are probably enough men around who just know what's right, and by that I don't just mean men who have been valiant enough to fight and win against their basest instincts. Believe it or not, we're not all caveman rapists (I know you don't think that). As a dad of both a boy and a girl, my instinct has always been protective, and, by extension, as a teacher in a secondary school my instinct was to be vigilant and protective, without being obsessive, and without wanting it to show, towards the children in my pastoral care. It involved a lot more than just keeping a weather eye open, but that's probably a whole nother subject. I think that relationships education is by far the most important role of the school, and I think that it's a bloody disaster. Discuss!