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A Double Standard for Sex Offenders
posted by Thomas on Friday October 24, @12:24AM
from the Inequality dept.
Inequality Psychologist Katherine Peterson of the Kentucky Department of Corrections has looked into double standards regarding the reporting and punishing of female vs. male sex offenders. Here is a brief report.

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Of Course. (Score:2)
by Dan Lynch on Friday October 24, @12:49AM EST (#1)
(User #722 Info) http://www.fathersforlife.org/fv/Dan_Lynch_on_EP.htm
Feminists are stupid. They don't even realize that they are pushing for oppressive laws that will only eventually come back to haunt them.

Sexual assault is serious, but what's the joke about the matter is their methodologies that turn simple misunderstandings into overdramatic nightmeres with their brainwashing propaganda.

I think we have to be careful that we dont' turn into some sort of society that just imprisons people at the drop of a hat.

I've known for a longtime that feminism was a scam, and this article starts to prove it.

The feminists are duped into fighting for social justice to in the end only lay down laws that will be used against women. No one is more mysoginistic than a feminist.

Not to say "Ha ha, I told you so, fembot", but....
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Re:Of Course. (Score:1)
by Hunsvotti on Friday October 24, @02:49AM EST (#2)
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We already are a society that imprisons people at the drop of the hat, particularly if those people are men and have been accused of some sort of violence by a woman. And she don't have to prove it either.

I think that DV and rape cases should be subject to the same standards of evidence as murder cases. We need to take away this honeypot that feminism has created that draws so many vermin.
This is so typical (Score:1)
by LSBeene on Friday October 24, @04:08AM EST (#3)
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Let me tell you 2 stories:

1) In my hometown (ok, the ADJACENT town over) there was a guy out for a bike ride through the back wood trails who stopped to relieve himself. He had often ridden the trails and knew when they were busy (almost never) and decided to go a few dozen yards into the woods and relieve himself (urinate). A 15 year old was jogging and jogged by and saw him. She did not freak out and he never approached her; she saw it and kept jogging. When she got home she told her mother, who promptly called the police. When the man finished his bicycling he left the bike/jogging trail and emerged from the woods to find 2 police cruisers there to arrest him. He was arrested for (if memory serves - this was about 5-7 years ago) indecent exposure to a child and a few other related charges. The "victim" was reported at first to have said it was no big deal but a few days later, no doubt after being coached by a "victim's advocate", she said that she was afraid and felt traumatized by the "event". The man pled guilty and is on the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry. List THIS one under : GIVE ME A BREAK!

    2) A teacher was found in her car "parking" with her 17 year old student. The windows were steamed up and her clothes were in disarray. The cop who stopped and looked in asked for ID and seeing no evidence that the young man was not assaulting her, let them go. The local newspaper published the incident without the names of the participants, and if I remember right the piece was lighthearted and seemed to be saying "lucky bastard" about the student. I doubt the male student was traumatized and probably looks back at the "incident" with a smile, but it makes me wonder if it had been a 17 year old FEMALE student and her high school teacher if it would have been related with anonymous "non naming" in the paper and if someone would have mentioned "abuse of power - abuse of position - improper conduct".
      Our society looks at a crime and asks the gender of the "perpetrator" and THEN passes judgement. Makes ya think
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MSN Dear Prudence is mild on female child rape (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday October 24, @10:39AM EST (#4)
http://slate.msn.com/id/2088982/

Think she would say the same if it were a adult male?

Dear Prudence,
A co-worker with whom I am good friends confided to me that she is keeping company with a 16-year-old boy. Today she admitted she could "get arrested" for what the two of them do when they spend time together. My friend is a single, divorced mother of two young children (ages 4 and 9). I am greatly disturbed that she is behaving this way. It could have serious consequences, not only for the teenager but for her and her children. She showed me a picture that featured her 9-year-old son with the teenage boy. Do you have any advice for me as to how to handle this situation? I do not know the teenager, not even his name (she refers to him only by a nickname), so there is no way for me to contact his parents even if I wanted to intervene. I have reminded her that her interest in him is a dangerous game that could result in her incarceration and the loss of her children. That doesn't seem to faze her. My instinct is to stay out of it. After all, we're just co-workers who share girl talk over lunch, but the fact that what she's doing is illegal (not to mention harmful to more than one person) greatly concerns me.

—Confounded

Dear Con,
Prudie wonders if your friend is familiar with the case of Mary Kay Letourneau. She is the mother and teacher now in prison for "keeping company" with a minor. Your friend clearly knows she is playing with fire. (People mistakenly think this type of situation is nirvana for a teenage boy, but this is far off the mark.) Perhaps the thing for you to do is Google the name of the aberrant Ms. Letourneau, print out the material, then pass it on to your friend. Though you have no legal obligation to alert the appropriate agency in your town (because you are not a teacher or a doctor), you may decide that that is what you need to do. Ethically, this decision is not a straight shot because you will have to factor in how you would react to whatever consequences might come about. Let's hope the "reading material" does the job.

—Prudie, meditatively

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