Equality is grand 'til it involves jail sentences

	posted by Matt on 05:28 PM December 8th, 2005
	bandersnatch writes "From The Independent, Baroness Hale of Richmond will point to the "disproportionate increase" in the numbers of women and teenage girls in custody and call for judges to consider alternative community sentences for female offenders. Delivering the Longford Lecture, sponsored by The Independent, Lady Hale, the only female law lord, will denounce "some very unequal treatment" faced by women and girls who appear before the courts. "A male-ordered world has applied to them its perceptions of the appropriate treatment for male offenders," she will say. More and more in recent years, women and girls have been punished in the same way as men and boys. There seems to be less and less understanding of the ways in which their lives are very different from men's." -- Sorry, ladies -- can't have it both ways! You made your bed, now go lie in it."

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You want equality? Deal with it. (Score:1) by RandomMan on 05:48 PM December 8th, 2005 EST (#1) Equality sucks. You demanded it, so get a helmet and SHUT UP ALREADY. You want our rights? Our jobs? Our privileges? Our money? Our homes? Our educations? Our children? Our freedom? Then grow up and start acting like adults instead of spoiled little brats pitching a permanent tantrum. It's called responsibility - maybe you've seen men with some of it on television, and it goes with the territory, girlz. Either you're spoiled little princesses with no responsibilities and we take care of you, or you're adults and equals with the same liabilities and responsibilities you demand of us. There is no in-between anymore, and you don't get the right to choose one or the other as it suits you, because we don't either. So, since you're always on about your wonderful networking skills, get your shit together as a group, CHOOSE, and SHUT UP about it already. We're sick of your constant demands for choices and privileges you deny us. Just wait until we start drafting your spoiled, lazy asses, and mandating real employment equity laws that force women to take 51% of hard-labour, low-paying, high-risk jobs so men can go to school and stay home with their children, or work in air-conditioned, 35-hour-a-week, pensioned offices while you stack boxes in a hot, dusty factory out back for minimum wage. It's coming, and I for one can't wait. You deserve nothing less.

That's what they mean by "choice" (Score:1) by Trueman on 06:57 PM December 8th, 2005 EST (#2) It must be nice to be able to pick from a smorgasbord of equality. “Lets see, Mmmmmmm, I’ll take some of the equal pay, the college incentives, Title IX, Weeew yuk I definitely don’t want any responsibility. What is that? Equal time for equal crime? No thanks. But I will have your pension for desert” Chiverly died with the birth of Feminism.

Sounds Like Bull To Me (Score:2) by Dittohd on 10:42 PM December 8th, 2005 EST (#3) I don't believe any of it for a minute. I think it's all a con job, just like all the statistics that came out a while back about how girls were discriminated against and disadvantaged in the classroom. This was at the same time that in actuality, girls were besting the boys in almost every measure. It's just another snow job to get women more privileges. How often do we ever see a woman getting a jail sentence anywhere near what a man in the same situation would get? If women are going to jail more often, it's because they're committing more crimes now that they have been taught to act more like how they perceive men act. It just a bunch o' bull crap! Dittohd All anonymous postings on my screen are filtered. To talk with or debate me, a user ID is now required. Thanks.

Re:Sounds Like Bull To Me (Score:1) by Baniadam on 05:26 PM December 9th, 2005 EST (#4) The sad thing she will be taken seriously vecause there won't be anyone against her. Found a good Russian proverb while trying to find this article. "A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master" Please take this with as bit of humour.

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