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by AIX2ESXI 3006 days ago
Eh, I say throw the book at all criminals regardless of gender. I'm a big proponent of putting females on the front lines of war too if the U.S. truly stands for equality. Having grown up as a ward of the court, I have seen judges sentence women to lighter sentences since they view these women as their daughters or mothers that made a one time mistake, in contrast to the men who judges deem useless and dangerous criminals to society and get the book thrown at them.

Just look at the epidemic of U.S. female teachers who sexually abuse their students and get slapped on the wrist compared to the harsher sentences of the men who do abuse their female students

Anyhow, I truly believe the industrial prison complex is too successful for the U.S. to change any aspect it. If anything, we will reignite the drug war and start using social media to lock up more men and the occasional woman. This feeds the narrative that our society does not care about men and that the government is always looking to take care of women at the expense of men and our taxes. As a young man it is hard to see it any other way and has radicalized me towards the manopshere, redpill and mgotw online communities and philosophy.

Then again, I wonder if this the outcome that social engineers are pushing our society towards to? I feel no desire to love, cherish or protect any women in my life after seeing how they can get away with things that I cannot as a man and how society caters to their every whim. / End rant.

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There are absolutely crimes and criminals that should be punished more severely, but there's also a place for compassion in the justice system. Many men did make a one-time mistake (or sometimes not even that) and get harshly punished for it. At the same time, there are also men who get a slap on the wrist for crimes that are usually punished more severely. Usually men who are rich, white and/or well connected.

There's way to much bias based on irrelevant circumstances in the US justice system. Black men in particular need a bit more mercy, rich white people need more accountability, women need to be taken more seriously in both directions.

First an foremost, though, the US prison-industrial complex needs to end. Profiting from imprisonment creates perverse incentives. The goal of the prison system needs to be rehabilitation, not corporate profit at the expensive of the people.

White women, rich or not, tend to most often get a slap on the wrist.