According to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, for boys, sexual harassment is “the greatest thing that ever happened,” but for girls “traumatic.”
The remarks were made on Monday as Carlson renewed his claim that a Texas middle school teacher should not have been charged for giving a 15-year-old student a four-minute lap dance.
As reported by KTRK-TV, a criminal charge of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a student was filed against Houston area teacher, Felicia A. Smith, 42.
“According to court documents, a 15-year-old student entered the classroom and said it was his birthday. He said the other students encouraged him to sit in a chair at the front of the room, where Smith allegedly performed a full contact lap dance to music, lasting about four minutes. The boy described to Aldine ISD police touching that occurred between the two.”
Speaking about public reaction to the case on Fox News’ latest show, Outnumbered, Carlson presented his “bottom line:”
“The women are upset and the man understands, and here’s the bottom line: A 15-year-old boy is not a 15-year-old girl, and so – I got a lot of mail about this – every man understands this. A 15-year-old boy looks at this as, like, the greatest thing that ever happened, and I think for a 15-year-old girl it would be traumatic. That’s just real. I don’t know what to say – I don’t want that to be true but it is true.”
You can watch Carlson in action in the clip, below, from Media Matters.
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