# Fox news obsessed by female teachers having sex with pupils? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 19, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890 "2017-12-19T20:51:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![paai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paai)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/1 "2017-12-19T20:51:26Z")
Dear Cecil, although I am dutch, since the election of Trump I visit the Fox News site every day. It really opens a window on a different world. There is one thing that really bugs me. After a few months I saw a pattern of at least once a week a story on Fox News about a female teacher having sex with a pupil. Then I started taking notes and it really is true. Every week regular a teacher is accused of sex with one or more pupils. Check for yourself if you don’t believe me. I have never seen a similar pattern in one of the other news outlets that I check daily (CNN, Frankfurter Zeitung, BBC, Guardian and a few dutch newspapers). Why only Fox News? What is going on over there? , Although… “De Telegraaf”, the dutch political counterpart of Fox News is in the last few weeks copying the Fox News items about teacher sex as ‘interesting news’ from abroad. Paai ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/2 "2017-12-19T20:59:00Z")
There was one where the teacher and student were having sex in the parking lot of a Chick-Fill-A. Some wag in the comments section wrote: “Fill-A-Chick at Chick-Fill-A”. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/3 "2017-12-19T21:22:52Z")
If I had to speculate, reporting on this type of story hits a few of Fox News’ triggers: 1. Sex. They like the sexy things; just look at the women reporting their news. 2. It allows their viewers to “tsk-tsk” and say aloud “This world is going to h-e-double-hockey-sticks and it’s all because of those godless and permissive liberals.” That’s one of their favorite things; just look at the Hannity show. And 3. It plants a small seed of distrust/dislike into a sizeable chunk of their viewers’ minds against public educators. Win-win-win. Or the news director just has a student-teacher sexual obsession he’s never outgrown. That’s probably not the most GQ answer in the world, but I don’t know if there is a GQ answer to this question. If there is, and I just needlessly jumped directly into politically-loaded assumptions, I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/4 "2017-12-19T21:25:48Z")
Since we are not privy to the decision-making process of Fox News, let’s move this over to IMHO. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/5 "2017-12-19T21:26:25Z")
Female teacher/male student sex stories are quite marketable and shocking but not always in a bad way. Many men had an attractive teacher that they wanted to bone so it is a way of living vicariously. I know it is a crime and an abuse of power but many people don’t take it that seriously. It isn’t just Fox news. [Fark.com](http://Fark.com) is obsessed with it too. There are also webpages devoted to the phenomenon. It turns out that there a whole lot of them that got caught and probably many more that haven’t been yet but they still keep doing it. [https://www.ranker.com/list/hottest-teachers-caught-sleeping-with-students/trent-walker](https://www.ranker.com/list/hottest-teachers-caught-sleeping-with-students/trent-walker) [http://www.thebrofessional.net/bad-teachers/](http://www.thebrofessional.net/bad-teachers/) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/6 "2017-12-19T22:03:12Z")
> [@paai](#): > > I have never seen a similar pattern in one of the other news outlets that I check daily (CNN, Frankfurter Zeitung, BBC, Guardian and a few dutch newspapers). Why only Fox News? What is going on over there? Daily Mail? Hot young teacher is like gold to them. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/7 "2017-12-19T22:14:57Z")
I think there’s a “man bites dog” phenomenon here, which is that a story about a man getting in trouble because of a high sex drive isn’t remarkable, but stories about a woman getting in trouble because of her high sex drive would be considered newsworthy or unusual. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/8 "2017-12-20T04:13:56Z")
Please leave “man bites dog” references out of teacher-sex stories. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/9 "2017-12-20T04:44:23Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Daily Mail? Hot young teacher is like gold to them. They are famous for being outraged by half-naked women parading around everywhere, while also filling the article of pictures of said half-naked women, and then also a column full of story links to celebrities in bikinis. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/10 "2017-12-20T05:26:51Z")
Why does Fox do it? Titillation, anti-feminism to the extent they don’t cover the male counterparts, and to get super Freudian, an anger at a perceived double standard and deep seated desire that male abusers could receive similarly light hearted treatment in the wider culture. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/11 "2017-12-20T06:22:17Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > **Why does Fox do it?[** Titillation, anti-feminism to the extent they don’t cover the male counterparts, and to get super Freudian, an anger at a perceived double standard and deep seated desire that male abusers could receive similarly light hearted treatment in the wider culture. Gee whiz, folks. Yes, this is the SDope—but we don’t _always_ need to get all Freudian or look for deep political analysis about feminism or the liberal-conservative social schism. The simple question is: “why does Fox do it?” The simple answer is : Money. Sex sells. A story about a male teacher raping a female student is sad. But a story about a female teacher seducing a male student is sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Dickerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Dickerman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dickerman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/12 "2017-12-20T14:34:19Z")
I’ll just add that it’s hardly limited to Fox. Such stories are reported in many places. ---
**Author:** ![Toastmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Toastmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toastmaker)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/13 "2017-12-21T16:49:34Z")
For about a two year period, liberals and angst-ridden feminists have tried to convince the world that women are pure victims of nasty, horny men. It doesn’t matter that quite a few of the allegations of rape, fondling, rubbing, diddling or harassment turn out to be crap and little more than attempts at extortion or attention-getting tools. I’m not at all defending the guilty bastards but people are innocent, in the eyes of the justice system, until proven guilty ! Fox news is deftly pointing out that any gender can have their wrong-doers and criminal elements and the girls are NOT the epitome of pure innocence. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/14 "2017-12-21T21:46:33Z")
I’ve never (ever) watched Fox News and I can confidently state that I’ve been seeing these types of stories on my local network channel news sites at least once every week or two for the past couple years. What’s more, they are appearing on the news sites only because they happened in this state or in the adjoining states. I have often commented to my wife that its virtually an “epidemic.” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-obsessed-by-female-teachers-having-sex-with-pupils/804890/15 "2017-12-22T15:58:51Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > There was one where the teacher and student were having sex in the parking lot of a Chick-Fill-A. Some wag in the comments section wrote: “Fill-A-Chick at Chick-Fill-A”. That’s Chick-fil-A. One “l”. Another play is “Fel-a-cho at chick-fil-A”. 😃