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[–]invaderpixel 46 ポイント47 ポイント

Oh gosh, /r/pussypass and /r/lostgeneration might be some of the saddest subreddits ever. One just insists women can get away with literally every crime, another insists that since the economy sucks it's impossible for our generation to accomplish anything and just blames the world for everything. And then you've got your typical hate subs like whiterights and fatpeoplestories and fatlogic. Not too shocking I guess.

[–]gingervitis16 6 ポイント7 ポイント

In their defense, fatpeoplestories and fatlogic also ended up high on TBP's rundown. Otherwise, I agree with what you said.

[–]mark10579 -1 ポイント0 ポイント

ugh, that's so disappointing

[–]Stair_Car 7 ポイント8 ポイント

Economic stress is the one disprivilege that most young white straight males can claim. So they gnaw that bone like a hungry dog.

[–]redwhiskeredbubul 16 ポイント17 ポイント

As somebody who's not straight, economic stress can actually be much worse than minority stress. LGBT? We have a parade. In debt? Fuck you.

[–]Theologica 9 ポイント10 ポイント

It's time to organize a debt parade.

[–]redwhiskeredbubul 18 ポイント19 ポイント

We tried that. It was called Occupy Wall Street. We got beaten up by the cops.

[–]mark10579 0 ポイント1 ポイント

well yeah, but economic stress affects everybody at all times

[–]invaderpixel 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Makes sense... it's tricky because I definitely feel the heavy student loan debt/unpaid internship/bad job market stress but I knew what I was getting into and no one tricked me. Plus I feel like hating the baby boomers/wanting it to be the 1950s again isn't going to solve much.

[–]owenrhys 3 ポイント4 ポイント

/r/pussypass is a decent subreddit.

If you think it's meaningless, just look at any of the posts there. It's true that in the western world today, women can get away with many crimes without repercussions. On average men get 40% longer prison sentences for the same crimes as women.

[–]exilevillify12 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Well, there ARE some crimes, where statistically, women often receive less jail time than men.

(Sexual abuse crimes, for example - which can be even HARDER to prove, outside the more well known "Male = Perpetrator; Female = Victim" scenario. )

In a way, its actually pure sexism - to think that a crime is somehow less serious, or worth being prosecuted, simply because a woman committed it.

(Or that perpetrators can ONLY be male, and victims can ONLY be female. This is equally ignorant and sexist.)

.....

In any case, the lighter jail sentences thing DOES have some reputable proof behind it.

(And its from a feminist run publication, no less.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/men-women-prison-sentence-length-gender-gap_n_1874742.html

[–]gavinbrindstar 29 ポイント30 ポイント

Well, there ARE some crimes, where statistically, women often receive less jail time than men.

You mean white women receive less jail time than minority men.

[–]exilevillify12 7 ポイント8 ポイント

Yes. That is true.

ALSO:

Female sex offenders, serve less jail time than MALE sex offenders.

That HAS been proven.

.....

I can find some sources for you, if you like.

[–]asdfghjkl92 4 ポイント5 ポイント

also white women recieve less than white men and minority women less than minority men. minority women may recieve worse than white men, depending on whether the gender bias is greater than the racial bias.

[–]phySi0 2 ポイント3 ポイント

I don't know how many fucking times I have to link this.

Table 5 shows that large differences exist in the average sentence length on the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender. Whites receive the lowest average sentence of 32.1 months. In sharp contrast, Hispanics receive a sentence of 54.1 months and blacks receive 64.1 months, which are 68.5 percent and 99.6 percent larger than the average sentence for whites. Even more pronounced is the difference between males and females [emphasis mine]. The average sentence for males is 278.4 percent greater than that of females (51.5 versus 18.5 months).

Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Courts, by David B. Mustard, for The University of Georgia page 296, "III. Empirical"

Minority women actually have it better than white men, but worse than white women. It's amazing just how averse people are to seeing men as victims in their own right, instead of specific groups of men being victimised for being part of that group, rather than for being men; for example, men of colour or something like that.

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[–]Femme_Murican 1 ポイント2 ポイント

FatLogic is not a hate sub, don't even think about seriously lumping fatlogic with white rights, fat people are not oppressed