How do you email a complaint to the Washington Post for a pro-rape editorial?

[Bucky]

I'm explosively angry about this idiot writer, Betsy Karasik, saying teacher-student statutory rape should be decriminalized. I want to write something angry to the Washington Post's editorial page. Can someone give me an email address to do this? Looking around their page hasn't given a clue how to do so.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sex-between-students-and-teachers-should-not-be-a-crime/2013/08/30/dbf7dcca-1107-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html

As protesters decry the leniency of Rambold’s sentence — he will spend 30 days in prison after pleading guilty to raping 14-year-old Cherice Morales, who committed suicide at age 16 — I find myself troubled for the opposite reason. I don’t believe that all sexual conduct between underage students and teachers should necessarily be classified as rape, and I believe that absent extenuating circumstances, consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized. While I am not defending Judge G. Todd Baugh’s comments about Morales being “as much in control of the situation” — for which he has appropriately apologized — tarring and feathering him for attempting to articulate the context that informed his sentence will not advance this much-needed dialogue.

Here's the context: She was 14 and incapable of genuine consent. I don't know to what degree her sexual abuse at 14 shaped her decision at 16 to kill herself, but they can't be unrelated. Schools have a responsibility to protect the children they are sent. Even if you ignore the teacher-student dynamic (and really you can't), any grown up (Rambold was close to 50) knows you can't have sex with minors. He ignored that law. He also gratified himself with a confused teenager and made her life even more confusing. He violated the most basic responsibility an educator has to a kid in trouble. No decent person can dispute the harm he caused that girl, her family, and the school... nor deny his practical hatred for the laws of society.

But Betsy Karasik can argue his actions aren't necessarily criminal. She argues that, you know, all 14 year old girls think about sex. Point conceded. How does that rationalize raping them? She idiotically asks

If religious leaders and heads of state can’t keep their pants on, with all they have to lose, why does society expect that members of other professions can be coerced into meeting this standard?

The standard of not sleeping with the children you're put in charge of isn't a tough standard to meet. People who can't control themselves around adolescents, be they ministers or prime ministers, should be punished. Her argument comes down to "boys will be boys." The argument is almost bottomlessly insulting.

Someone, tell me how to sound off against the Post. Anyone who wants to join me, I welcome you.

[seabeyond]

1. The standard of not sleeping with the children you're put in charge.....

thank you bucky for this post. way beyond thank you. truly, it makes me sick as we move in a society where a 50 yr old predator has the right to go after a 14 yr old kid.

[Hayabusa]

2. Child or not,

any instance where someone in power sleeps with someone they have power over is wrong as it leaves way too much leeway for abuse of power. When it's someone under the age of consent, it's doubly wrong.

[seabeyond]

7. agreed. stated perfectly. wrong. nt

[pinboy3niner]

3. At the bottom of the WaPo page your OP links to are "Contact Us" links. nt

[FSogol]

4. Here:

Write to [e-mail] or to: Letters to the Editor, The Washington Post, 1150 15th Street NW, Washington DC 20071.

[Bucky]

6. Thank you!

[PoliticAverse]

5. Email: [e-mail]

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-01/opinions/37368283_1_reader-representative-ombudsmen-post-employee