When most people begin a conversation about abuse perpetrated by a male offender they don’t start with, "Gee, where was that coach when I was a kid?" or "why couldn't I have had a teacher like that?" or "Wow, he's good-looking, they didn't make ‘em like that when I was that age!" In fact, this kind of comment would be met with such a vehemently negative response that the speaker would probably be reluctant to talk at all for the next several hours! Why then, do we still hear precisely these comments when discussing incidents of abuse by female offenders?  Read More