re: Not allowing people to make mistakes - does it create a bullying society?

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I don't think they ought to get a pass

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They're getting one.

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but they also don't need to be excoriated.

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I was hoping this could be a teaching point. I didn't want them expelled. I wanted them punished. Nothing happened. Double standard.

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The biggest hypocrisy is for politicians engaging in sexual misconduct. We love Barney Frank but raised hell about Donald Vitter.

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I get that Republicans are the "family values" party. But, the double standard there is stark, isn't it? Larry Craig was about as milquetoast, left-of-center, "get along, go along" Republican as you can find - to the left of Lindsay Grahamnesty - about as left as the Maine gal senators.

Clinton has all sorts of misconduct (including more than a little non-consensual contact, to say the least), even as President? Complete pass. Romney, the most straight-laced, inoffensive dude who ever ran for the Presidency, says something awkwardly (binders full of women) - meaning he was pursuing an official "affirmative action" policy FOR women? Excoriated as being anti-woman.

Strom Thurmond was NEVER mentioned, without his Dixiecrat background, etc. Hell, Trent Lott caught flak for being nice to the old man on his birthday.

Robert Byrd? Essentially the same background as Thurmond, but he never left the party and became more and more liberal over the years. His Klan membership was only mentioned by talk radio and conservative outlets.

So, it isn't just sex. The entire MSM is geared up as a propaganda machine for the Democrat party - to no good end, frankly.