@CWOTUS You have a right to your opinion, but what I consider insanity is giving a woman community service for murdering someone in cold blood while giving a guy convicted of the same crime the maximum prison sentence. I could also say that it’s insanity to throw a male drug addict in prison while coddling the female addict.
Why not determine who is less of a threat to society or not by an individual case by case basis rather than just assuming and discriminating because of that person having the audacity to be born the wrong sex?
@burntbonez I hope that it never does attempt to make it to this country, because I and others like me (including many women) would and will do everything in our power to fight such ridiculous legislation that’s so outright sexist. Also the question isn’t a moot point because there are many nonamericans on this site as well.
@Coloma Good response, and I agree with you (like usual). What I really find so pardoxal and outright immoral is the fact that more evidence has shown that the supposedly more aggressive nature of males is actually more the result of societal gender constructs rather than biological reasons. I’ve read a few good books about this topic, and one of them has clearly shown that females have the same capacity (though not physically as strong as males) to be aggressive and commit violence. The behaviors of each sex are usually determined very early on, usually by age two.
In other words we are condemning men for being more violent than their female counterparts when we as society shape and mold gender related behaviors in each sex. We are rewarding women for being less violent because we mold these behavior characteristics into them. We condemn men for being aggressive pigs whose feelings and problems are not considered to be as important as women’s, though as a society we mold this behavior into them.
I used to think that the feminist movement was on my side, and that they stood for gender equality, but now I’m convinced that I was wrong. I also used to think that MRA’s were just made up of disgruntled men, but now I’m a member of one, and it’s not just the topic on this thread that has convinced me that my old way of thinking was wrong. Unfortunately the ‘white knight’ males who support this legislation consist of both progressives and conservatives, so I can’t divide stances on this issue based upon political ideology, but the pure conscience of any decent human being. How is our society going to progress for the better by discriminating against people based upon their race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexuality, etc?