Concord Monitor Editorial Trivializes the Impact of Female Abusers

"How common is impossible to say because, according to the Department of Justice, no national statistics on female abusers are kept."

And therein lies the rub; on paper, at least as far as the DOJ statistics are concerned, females don't abuse!

I'm surprised the fem-nags don't make a claim "According to National DOJ Statistics, men are perpetrators of abuse 100% of the time."

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
British politician (1804 - 1881)

"Adults who have a loving but inappropriate relationship with a single under-aged person do not deserve the same punishment as serial pedophiles who snatch children off the street, but society has an interest in preventing both behaviors."

This sounds like a rationalization for pro-female bias in the criminal justice system. The truth of the matter is that many folks out there, including many women's advocates of both sexes, will argue for lenient sentences for female sex offenders, but will insist that males be locked up for years even when the offenses are similar. I've seen examples of this in discussions about adult female teachers who become sexually involved (ie, commit statutory rape) with their underaged male students. Let's go easy on the women teachers (they need counseling not prison), but let's throw the men in jail forever. Never mind the damage the female did to her young male victim, or the importance of deterrence.

Mothers are far more likely than fathers to kill their babies. But in the US and other countries (such as England) the criminal justice system goes out of its way to treat these women leniently with rationalizations about post partum blues and the neglect of women's mental health needs, or insensitive husbands, or the pressures on young mothers, or poverty, or something else.

Let's face it, females get treated more leniently than males for similar offenses, especially when it comes to sexual abuse and family violence. We just work harder to find excuses for females than we do for males.

Whether it's a perspective that young males who are sexually assaulted by older women are "lucky" to have had the experience, or the idea of going easy on female perps because they are "in love" with their victims ---

the common thread connecting these delusions is the social code of Chivalry.

It continues to be the feminists' best insurance policy against accountability and real gender equality.

After all, Chivalry holds that women are the more caring, more loving, less violent, morally superior gender.

In short, Chivalry ensures that women are IDEALIZED, while men are DEMONIZED.

Within such a deformed belief system, it's completely reasonable to excuse a woman's predation as a temporary "slip-up," while prosecuting men for trivial non-crimes classed as domestic violence.

It's telling that for equivalent acts of pedophilia, our cultural tendency is to try to "understand" the woman, while seeking to "dehumanize" the man.

Lorraine(sp?) Bobbit-- You all know what she did (emmasculated her (now ex-, I hope)husband, and threw it away.)
She was found not guilty, due to spousal abuse.
her Husband was found not guilty of spousal abuse.
So WTF happened there?

"Adults who have a loving but inappropriate relationship with a single under-aged person do not deserve the same punishment as serial pedophiles who snatch children off the street, but society has an interest in preventing both behaviors."

Well, this woman did not have a single "inappropriate relationship" with an "under-age" person. She molested TWO boys, using her position as an adult and the boys' normal sexual interest to fulfill her own needs. That is classic pedophilia. And because she preyed on two boys, that also makes her a serial pedophile.

Too bad the author of the article never researched pedophilia. Oddly enough, the majority of pedophiles do not snatch children off the street. That is in fact rare in comparison to the typical situation where the pedophile seduces/grooms the child into thinking they are in a "loving relationship." It happens over a period of weeks, months, sometimes years, and the pedophile rarely views his or her acts as "inappropriate." The idea that male pedophiles somehow think differently from female pedophiles is nonsense. If you flipped the genders, the crap that comes of both female pedophiles' and their lawyers' mouths could be taken right out of a NAMBLA handbook.

TS

While it is far easier to rationalize torture and other inhuman treatments that ALL sex offenders (inluding the ones who ended up in the situation through non-sexual crimes classified as sex offence like urinating in a public place) are subjected to if they are no longer viewed as human beings.

Never mind the fact that for first time male sex offenders most reseach these days puts the recidavism rate between 1.5% - 3.5% So that means that somwhere in the area of 96.5% - 98.5% of them will not ever pose a threat to anyone again.

And not to mention the fact that those individuals convicted of non-sex offences such as larceny, assault or other serious crime are 6 times more likely to be convicted in the future of a sex offence then a person who was originally convicted of a sex offence

Bais is inevitable in this subject matter and since no real statistics are kept on female sex offenders it will persist and lies like "she really loved him" and "she's just immature for her age" and "she did not threaten him" ect.... will continue because they cannot be disproved. No one will fund studies that would show the truth about female sex offenders. Some suggest that a large percentage of female sex offenders are FAR more sadistic then even the most horrible male sex offenders and put their victums throuh unspeakable torture. But they are just not talked about.

Men who "slip up" must be thrown away by our civilized society. Women who prey on the innocent must be forgiven and their victums ignored.

Yup, real gender equality is far off at the rate we are going

Well of course. After all, we all know that it's every boy's sexual fantasy to be "made a man" by an older woman. What boy would complain about that? Only the gay ones. /sarcasm