A double standard at work here?

You would have to be dead to have not seen, heard or read stories about teachers having sex, and in some cases babies, with their students. What surprises me is that there is not more talk about the alleged double standard that seems to be at work in these cases. As you can read from the story at the link below, a female teacher at a Tennessee school had sex with a 13 year old boy and was sentenced to nine months in jail, several years probation, being listed as a sex offender and losing her teaching license. Does anyone think that if roles were reversed and you had a male teacher having sex with a 13 year old girl that the sentence would even be close to this? It would probably be much more severe. I wonder why that is?

Granted, as I recall from being around that age, you at least once or twice wondered what it would be like with a cute teacher. No, relax purtians, I didn't say I approved of that, but most guys fantasized about getting it on with at least one of their teachers (or at least a teacher at their school) whether they admit it or not. Trust me, they did have such a crush at one time. So why the double standard in sentencing for such a crime? And a couple of the female teachers that have done this were not exactly ugly either. Obviously they did have a problem if they would do this, I am not suggesting that, but why should they get a slap on the wrist while a male teacher in that situation would likely get 10 years or more for the exact same crime?

Here is the article if you want to check it out, its from AP via Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050812/ap_on_re_us/teacher_sex_charge;_ylt=AqazCNedFeYpTGVyzAFtI4tvzwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl