Macron married his former high-school French teacher Brigitte Trogneux, who is 24 years his senior. They met at the private, catholic school La Providence in Amiens. At the time, he was 15-years-old.
Early 90s in Europe? Nope. Total non issue. I'm Macron's age and Teacher/Teenage-student romances in those days happened frequently enough that everybody knew a story similar to that, female student male teacher mostly. And nobody would have thought about this as anything close to "Rape" or pedophilia.
I mean celebrated in the present day by MSM. I don't think the public are as okay with these creepy power-imbalance 'relationships' anymore, although there seems to be more tolerance when it's a 'cougar' type set-up
I love how its framed that its just French like us good ol dumb Americans cant get with the program of a romantic love story...well yes I guess I cant.
I personally knew a teacher/teenage student couple, student was my classmate, - very smart, good student all around, knew what she wanted, for all intents and purposes she was an adult. When she graduated they went official, married, had children, don't know if they're still married.
Yeah unthinkable today, when 17 year olds are thought about as retarded children and behave as such - it's only logical to think about them as toddlers, incapable of making any decision about their body.
A relationship between an adult and a modern teenager would constitute an unacceptable power imbalance per se - without the need to know anything else about the situation.
There really is no difference between a teenager and a toddler, mentally. That's why US- statutory rape laws are necessary.
Forget about how mature the teenager in question is for a second, what about the moral responsibility of the adult in this situation? Especially one in a position of power/care over said teenager? Surely they should show some self-control?
This 'position of power' was more than questionable at that time: If the student would have even hinted at any pressure exerted on her, it would have ended the teachers career in a heartbeat, same if any other student would have claimed preferential treatment of her, but there wasn't any. Some of her peers knew, most disagreed, but since it didn't seem to have any effect on the classroom situation, nobody made an issue out of it, but as I said, different times, different circumstances, everyone behaved very civilized.
I understand that you need stricter rules in a cage full of monkeys taught by Maury Povich.
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4warned ago
The press calls it an "unconventional romance". He was 15 when he met his wife- 39 years old. http://nordic.businessinsider.com/who-is-emmanuel-macron-2017-3/
Macron married his former high-school French teacher Brigitte Trogneux, who is 24 years his senior. They met at the private, catholic school La Providence in Amiens. At the time, he was 15-years-old.
Mad_As_Hell ago
Aaand it's a Jesuit school, of course http://www.amiens-wiki.com/index.php?title=La_Providence
equineluvr ago
Jewsuits. Of course.
DonKeyhote ago
See how desensitized the idiots on this board are that no one pointed out the name Emmanuel
4warned ago
Wonder how the liberal Jesuits handled this.
ImmortalCommunity ago
John Podesta is a Jesuit, just like Adam Weishaupt, they both studied Jesuit Law.
Puttitout_Is_Fat ago
source please.
FriesischShipping ago
You mean blackmail/extortion?
Mad_As_Hell ago
More normalisation ops, doubt it would be as celebrated a 'romance' if the genders were reversed
B3nd3r ago
Early 90s in Europe? Nope. Total non issue. I'm Macron's age and Teacher/Teenage-student romances in those days happened frequently enough that everybody knew a story similar to that, female student male teacher mostly. And nobody would have thought about this as anything close to "Rape" or pedophilia.
4warned ago
I think that is part of the problem. Calling teacher/ teenage sex as "romance"
Mad_As_Hell ago
I mean celebrated in the present day by MSM. I don't think the public are as okay with these creepy power-imbalance 'relationships' anymore, although there seems to be more tolerance when it's a 'cougar' type set-up
sugarskull ago
I love how its framed that its just French like us good ol dumb Americans cant get with the program of a romantic love story...well yes I guess I cant.
DonKeyhote ago
They are famously loose tho. Like having the dead president wife standing beside his mistress by his casket
B3nd3r ago
I personally knew a teacher/teenage student couple, student was my classmate, - very smart, good student all around, knew what she wanted, for all intents and purposes she was an adult. When she graduated they went official, married, had children, don't know if they're still married. Yeah unthinkable today, when 17 year olds are thought about as retarded children and behave as such - it's only logical to think about them as toddlers, incapable of making any decision about their body. A relationship between an adult and a modern teenager would constitute an unacceptable power imbalance per se - without the need to know anything else about the situation. There really is no difference between a teenager and a toddler, mentally. That's why US- statutory rape laws are necessary.
Different times. Different standards.
Mad_As_Hell ago
Forget about how mature the teenager in question is for a second, what about the moral responsibility of the adult in this situation? Especially one in a position of power/care over said teenager? Surely they should show some self-control?
B3nd3r ago
This 'position of power' was more than questionable at that time: If the student would have even hinted at any pressure exerted on her, it would have ended the teachers career in a heartbeat, same if any other student would have claimed preferential treatment of her, but there wasn't any. Some of her peers knew, most disagreed, but since it didn't seem to have any effect on the classroom situation, nobody made an issue out of it, but as I said, different times, different circumstances, everyone behaved very civilized. I understand that you need stricter rules in a cage full of monkeys taught by Maury Povich.