So I guess it's now accepted practice to rape a cheerleader if you are a star athlete, eh?

I got myself in a lot of trouble, in my youth, hanging around the cheerleaders and the like.

Can't lie and say part of it wasn't that I considered them sexy, but the fact is that I didn't want that to overwhelm the hard work they did (and the sport they were cheering at itself), so I tried my best to keep everything in check.

After something I had been following got resolved over the last couple of weeks, I really now have to wonder if it's not akin to the old saying that one should not steal -- only because the government hates competition.

I had sat for years wondering if the only purpose of cheerleading was the sexual gratification of the fans and especially the athletes they were cheering for.

A decision out of Texas, affirmed by the US Supreme Court last week, removes almost all doubt of this theory.

A basketball player in southeastern Texas raped one of the cheerleaders at a house party (which quite a number of fellow students attended). The court dropped the rape charge, in exchange for a sentence of two years' probation, anger management classes, and a fine.

This ALLOWED HIM TO RETURN TO THE SCHOOL AND HIS PLACE ON THE BASKETBALL TEAM.

Let me say that again, and please note that I did not stutter:

THIS ALLOWED HIM TO RETURN TO THE SCHOOL AND HIS PLACE ON THE BASKETBALL TEAM.

And, on top of it, when his victim was put on the cheerleading squad, she was ordered to cheer for the guy!!!

Well, she didn't, was fired from the team, sued the school, and LOST!!!

The school basically says that, by being a cheerleader, you give up all right to personally speak -- you are speaking only for the school you are cheering for.

If that isn't an open sanctioning of raping of the cheerleading squad by the school district, I don't know what is!

And, in the final insult, her family has been ordered to PAY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT $45,000 for defending this SON OF A FUCKING BITCH!!!

And you wonder why there are many people who believe a woman deserves rape for wearing a short skirt.

(And one must similarly wonder why I would, instead, say that a woman should never expect appropriate conduct from a man in a social situation, and must prepare accordingly.)

We had an Athletic Code back in the day that you got suspended for 1/4 of the season for simply drinking alcohol. This Texas school district basically enforced it's social standing that the athletes could rape whomever they wanted without ramification.

Prediction: Over-under one year, and we have a suicide.