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He's not just being "lame." He's being thoughtful and considerate and a good listener. And he's nice.

-Ginger jokes went out of style.
-There's no such thing as pedo facehair. I don't know where you got this pop culture inference but plenty of pedophiles are clean-shaven, I don't know a direct correlation between face hair and child-luvins.
-How do you see divorce as a failure? Sometimes it just doesn't work out between people. It's not as simple as to just look at it as a failure. And Donna isn't half his age. And who would say no? Terry eventually did. He initiated the divorce.
-"What kind of girl would go from Roy Harper to this guy?"

Uh, yes, they are remotely compatible in taste in guys. Terry and Roy both have inadequacy issues, bad luck in love, thought Donna was practically perfect, needed to be prodded in to responsibility often, and had less of a mature charm and more of a boyish charm. Kyle fit that pattern, too. And... uh, yes. Swooning over college professors happens a lot. Most teachers I've crushed on have been far from ideal in the looks department, and a lot of girls can say the same.
-Terry Long feels, to me, similar to the 40-something divorced Canadians who come here (Asia) to 'work' and then do nothing but bitch about how ineffectual they are at their jobs (because they're not really qualified) and hit on Asian high school and college girls. Eventually they hope to find one with daddy issues and marry her on back to Toronto where she'll be miserable and he'll be high-fiving his burnout buddies.

Now, that's a skeezy type of guy. And Terry did a LOT of whining about his job and self esteem. So I can see where you'd conflate this in, even though in canon he was never shown to hit on his students and was always shown to be not only respectful but to always consult Donna on what she wanted and needed, and yielded to her 99% of the time.