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In reply to the discussion: Former Tacoma teacher sentenced to sex-offender treatment, home detention. [View all]mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)44. yes, yes they have
However this is not a god damned competition. Anyone who would use the rape of a child as evidence that women or men get lighter sentences because of their gender is sorely lacking in empathy.
It is the rape culture that enables this. It really sucks when the roles are reversed, but not anymore than if this was a male receiving the same sentence.
It is past time to start taking all rape seriously and to stop using it as points for a mysongenic score card.
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Former Tacoma teacher sentenced to sex-offender treatment, home detention. [View all]
opiate69
Feb 2014
OP
Why is the WOMAN not going to prison? Does anyone think a MALE teacher would waltz like she is?
CBGLuthier
Feb 2014
#1
I see the "men are the real victims of sexism" bat signal has gone up. To answer your question:
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#2
ah, okay, I misread. She served merely three times as much jail time as those two men combined.
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#4
if it quacks like a Mens' Right Activist and posts like a Men's Right Activist nt
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#8
you guys should really make up your minds if your talking point is going to be
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#11
Yeah.. I've read all that a thousand times.. every time this canard gets trotted back out.. and..
opiate69
Feb 2014
#19
what canard? no one talked about them being a pure hate group in this thread.
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#20
Oh, well.. I'll be sure to be more careful with my answers next time, Senator McCarthy.
opiate69
Feb 2014
#21
so you've cherry picked two examples of male sex offenders being given light sentences
dlwickham
Feb 2014
#29
If we want to run the gender/race video game difficulty canard, white female is the easiest setting
Major Nikon
Feb 2014
#35
The person suffers from MS and wouldn't be able to get her meds properly delivered
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#26
Yet, my former guitarist sits in jail for assault, with an inoperable malignant brain tumor
opiate69
Feb 2014
#30
I'm just saying what the article says is the reasoning for the sentence. nt
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#32