Mary Kay Letourneau weds "victim"

Theories : Wackos are good together, keeps them away from normal folks... they're just soulmates, so good for them... or my favorite why the hell are they getting national media coverage, they're adults we should all get over it since they did...

She clearly has problems. I guess she's bi-polar but...god this is just so twisted and weird. One part of me says, 'wow they were in love' and the other half says, 'OMFG WTF PSYCHOS!'

How uncommon was it for old men to marry 13 year girls? In the phillipines my mother was asked, by her father, to marry a guy who was 40 something and windower when she was like 13. She said no (GROSS). This was back in the 50's. In generations passed, the reverse isn't uncommong.

Granted this is 2005 and she cheated on her husband and lost custody of her 4 other kids and fathered 2 with an underaged boy. Weirdness.

Yep i know your point Mae.. my great-grandmother came here from Syria at 12 in an arranged marriage around the turn of the 20th century, my granny married in a honest to goodness shotgun wedding at 13 (1954) cause she was preggers with my mom, to an older guy who had taken advantage of her. Not saying it's right in any way but it did happen and probably still does in other countries. The fact that this was a woman who was older seems to unnerve people.. But who knows, maybe if it was an older man who had abused a small girl we might all be lining up to lynch him /shrug.
I think it wasn't until the 1950's that the concept of adult shifted to a much older state (18-21) whereas before it was common for adults to be on their own working / married at 14-15. Heck by 18 a woman was a spinster and too old for marriage! Remembering that the life expectancy then was much less than current times, the concept of a childhood is a modern invention, one I do enjoy I admit.
Honestly, I say those two are legal adults by all standards now so more power to them and we can see if it works or not. Since a woman outlives a man usually maybe it's not a bad idea to marry younger! I did and while it's only a year hey.. younger men have their perks :D

If people like this didn't marry and breed, where would all our future Banjo players come from?

Ain't no shame in playing the banjo. Not as easy as it looks.

I don't really see what the law can do. She's paid her debt to society and now we're dealing with 2 adults *shrugs*.

I am inspired to quote 2 different songs:

"Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feeding, and I don't even own a TV'

Which in a twisted way lead to:

"Been around the world and I-I-I...I can't find my baby...I don't know when I don't know why, why he's gone away. And I don't know where he can be, he's my baby. But I'm gonna find him (someday, someway)"

On a quasi-related note, I know this word exists, but I can't remember what it is - can anyone give me a nice single word for 'rule by intelligentsia'?

-m2

The whole thing is just sick, but if they are together it keeps them away from the rest of us. The only bad thing is that they are breeding.

Who are you? Seriously.

ROFL.

But yeah, they're adults. I could care less they're marrying, in fact it kinda either proves either 1. they were in love or 2. they are nuts or really 3. BOTH. But if they're happy :shrug Awesome. Their kids on the other hand, well I'll be waiting for the STAR to be printing some interesting stories about them 20 years from now O_O But hopefully not.

Bi Polar Girlz are teh HOT ...

did the kids ever get therapy? =p serious he prolly has no idea what love is and is so fucked up because what this woman did to him when he was 12.

sick but not much can be done about it.

well actually he might be dependant on her. Like what happened messed him up at such a young age that he's sort of grown to idolize her. Didn't she get out at one point and then get thrown back in? I don't really remember this very well because I never cared enough to pay attention.

But like some of you have said, if it's true love it'll last, and if not, it won't. Only time will tell and frankly if they fade into obscurity, good. That's one less stupid story on the news. The only reason (like Maelarya and Temprah said) it's not right to us because our standards of living have changed, just as they'll continue to change. 'right' and 'wrong' have become pretty relitive and maybe 300 years from now it'll be the norm for an older woman to marry a younger man. *shrug* who knows.

I think its hot

I killed the thread :(

Good job,Vulash! :lmao

There was one couple about 2-3 years ago and the teacher was a smoking hot blonde. I would have loved to have been raped by a few of my teachers.

I am 13 years older than my husband...but at least he was past the age of consent when we met. :P And you're right, they do have their perks. ;)



ROFLMAO

That they got maried is no issue to me, they're both adults. I wonder how much the two kids know or will be told, though.

I guess now that they are adults, it is fine, but seriously, how the hell can any woman get excited about a 13 year old boy? Unless the woman is 12, that is, but then she would be a girl, not a woman. :P

I have no problem understanding why someone would be attracted to someone much younger, as I definitely prefer younger men myself, but imo, under 21 is just completely off limits, period.