A 35-year-old woman planned and carried out a series of rapes of a 12-year-old boy. A news headline explained that she had engaged in “clandestine sex trysts” with the boy.
The headline reported that she “burst into tears” at her criminal
sentencing. Can you imagine such a headline describing a 35-year-old man
raping a 12-year-old girl?
“Former Ravens Cheerleader Completes Weekend Jail Time For Rape Of Teen Boy.”
She was 49. He was 15. If a 49-year-old man had raped a 15-year-old
girl, would he have been sentenced just to weekend jail time?
A 35-year-old English teacher raped a student eight times in the classroom and in a car. The teacher was sentenced to 10 years of probation. The teacher-perpetrator was a woman, and the student-victim was a boy. Do you think that gender pattern biased the criminal sentence?
While mainstream media and legal authorities largely ignore gender bias in the criminal justice system, ordinary persons are starting to notice the terrible injustice of gender-biased criminal justice. Suppose a woman rapes a boy. Suppose the rapist gets pregnant, doesn’t chose to have an abortion, doesn’t chose to legally abandon the child, and doesn’t chose to put the child up for adoption. Under what kind of justice system would the rape victim then be legally forced to make large monthly payments to his rapist? That happens under the U.S. justice system, and under other justice systems around the world.
Grass-roots activists have interpreted gender injustice in new ways that are far more significant than the gender ratio in particular employment categories. The point, however, is to change gender injustice. For that task, the medieval Latin masterpiece Speculum stultorum provides vital guidance. With freedom of speech that probably would not be acceptable today, that medieval Latin work boldly described cloistered nuns in England:
God hears the cries of the poor, even while gynocratic society ignores them.
Notes:
The above quote is from Nigellus Wireker, Mirror of Fools {Speculum stultorum} ll. 2379-84, Latin text from Mozley & Raymo (1960) p. 67. I’ve adapted the English translation from Regenos (1959) p. 114.
[image] Woman crying. Image created by the U.S. Marine Corps for National Domestic Violence Awareness month in 2009. Via Wikimedia Commons. The U.S. criminal justice system gender-profiles men for arrest for domestic violence. The U.S. also administers separate and highly gender-unequal services for victims of domestic violence.
References:
Mozley, John H., and Robert R. Raymo, ed. 1960. Nigellus Wireker. Speculum stultorum. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Regenos, Graydon W, trans. 1959. Nigellus Wireker. The book of Daun Burnel the ass: Nigellus Wireker’s Speculum stultorum. Austin: University of Texas Press.
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“Former Ravens Cheerleader Completes Weekend Jail Time For Rape Of Teen Boy.”
She was 49. He was 15. If a 49-year-old man had raped a 15-year-old
girl, would he have been sentenced just to weekend jail time?A 35-year-old English teacher raped a student eight times in the classroom and in a car. The teacher was sentenced to 10 years of probation. The teacher-perpetrator was a woman, and the student-victim was a boy. Do you think that gender pattern biased the criminal sentence?
While mainstream media and legal authorities largely ignore gender bias in the criminal justice system, ordinary persons are starting to notice the terrible injustice of gender-biased criminal justice. Suppose a woman rapes a boy. Suppose the rapist gets pregnant, doesn’t chose to have an abortion, doesn’t chose to legally abandon the child, and doesn’t chose to put the child up for adoption. Under what kind of justice system would the rape victim then be legally forced to make large monthly payments to his rapist? That happens under the U.S. justice system, and under other justice systems around the world.
Grass-roots activists have interpreted gender injustice in new ways that are far more significant than the gender ratio in particular employment categories. The point, however, is to change gender injustice. For that task, the medieval Latin masterpiece Speculum stultorum provides vital guidance. With freedom of speech that probably would not be acceptable today, that medieval Latin work boldly described cloistered nuns in England:
They’re serpent-bodied, siren-voiced, with breastsMen too deserve forgiveness for all their crimes. To achieve gender equality with women, men must cry openly and profusely in the face of appalling injustices against men.
of dragons, Paris’s heart, Susanna’s charms.
But still they have one motion that rebuts all,
a ceaseless flow of tears before their God.
With these they pray to God and win his grace,
with these they cleanse their hearts of all their crimes.
{ Corpore serpentes, sirenes voce, dracones
pectore, Susanna smigmate, corde Paris.
Sed tamen illud habent, unum quod cuncta refellit,
ante Deum lacrimas quae sine lege fluunt.
His Dominum placant semper veniamque merentur,
his sua cunta lavant crimina, quicquid agunt. }
God hears the cries of the poor, even while gynocratic society ignores them.
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Notes:
The above quote is from Nigellus Wireker, Mirror of Fools {Speculum stultorum} ll. 2379-84, Latin text from Mozley & Raymo (1960) p. 67. I’ve adapted the English translation from Regenos (1959) p. 114.
[image] Woman crying. Image created by the U.S. Marine Corps for National Domestic Violence Awareness month in 2009. Via Wikimedia Commons. The U.S. criminal justice system gender-profiles men for arrest for domestic violence. The U.S. also administers separate and highly gender-unequal services for victims of domestic violence.
References:
Mozley, John H., and Robert R. Raymo, ed. 1960. Nigellus Wireker. Speculum stultorum. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Regenos, Graydon W, trans. 1959. Nigellus Wireker. The book of Daun Burnel the ass: Nigellus Wireker’s Speculum stultorum. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Edited by AA
Regarding Douglas' statement. “That happens under the U.S. justice system, and probably under other justice systems around the world.” I can confirm as a veteran MHRA of UK F4J [Father’s for Justice] since 2002 and an advisor of the fledgling US F4J and India MHRM shortly after that and as a participant in the internationally attended UK ICMI 2016 [International Conference on Men’s Issues], that there’s no probably about it.
ReplyDeleteIndia is doing better, because they’re also doing worse, with women able to have husbands and their entire families imprisoned on mere hearsay, their movement is expanding at an incredible rate and they have a few MPs on their side.
We here in the UK have also accidently found a advocate MP or two and one in particular who, being appalled at the constant news of women’s issues in the lame-stream media, wanted to do something about it, but who is also a rare MP who actually bothered to look into the UK government statistics on the matter and so to his shock found [what we MHRAs have long known] that in fact men are the ones being mistreated in every sense and regarding prison and the legal system that men are more or less dealt with twice as harshly all the way down the line, from arrest to imprisonment, more or less accounting for the large part of the prisoner gender disparity in the UK. The rather exceptional MP Philip Davies. [Though he and I differ in some political views]
In the UK women inmates may wear casuals, because it might hurt their feelings to wear a prison uniform, so only country club style prison for female murderers and get this to top it all, in the UK there is no crime of rape for women, rape can only be perpetrated by men and boys.