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by 1659447091 219 days ago
> Men are more severely punished in court for the same crimes

Not the Op, but this is simply wrong for domestic killings

The majority of women who kill their partner do so in self-defense after having endured abuse from that partner. After the system fails them and the abuse finally breaks them the courts hand down ~15 year sentences[*]. When the guy's abuse end's up killing a female partner/family member, he gets around 2-6 years, because the female made him super mad and he lost control.

Agreed on the custody and asset cases needing an overhaul years ago.

But saying men have it unfair because females are defaulted to in (civil, not criminal) custody cases screwing over the guys that actually want to show up, and ignoring how women are screwed in criminal self-defense domestic killings compared to mens rage/hate/power-trip domestic killings -- is really stretching that unfair tag

[*] Don't have time to find a stat link, but its widely known and published in news articles on the topic, studies etc that come up in a basic search

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The trouble with the abuse thing is that anyone can claim it. Women are the only ones for whom such an excuse can generally persuade a jury. False allegations of abuse abound. It is nearly impossible for a man to prove that he did not abuse a woman at some point, and women use this to their advantage.

While I admit that there are some men who abuse women and get attacked for it, plenty of other crimes and plenty of situations exist where being a man is a distinct legal disadvantage. Lots of places have a policy that forces police to assume that the man in the relationship is the offender/instigator in any domestic violence dispute. If you hit a woman in self-defense and don't have reliable witnesses or video evidence to back you up, you're probably going to have a hard time. There is a very clear pattern in most of society: if a woman does something to a man, they ask "what did he do to deserve it?" There are no shelters for men to leave abusive relationships, and feminists have literally campaigned to keep it that way.

I don't have a ton of links to establish my point here but this one seems to have relevant citations. https://www.mcgrathtraining.com/post/offenders-and-sentencin...

Frankly I would be shocked if you could find a single crime for which women would get a more harsh sentence than men on average.

>Don't have time to find a stat link, but its widely known and published in news articles on the topic, studies etc that come up in a basic search

Basic search is not very helpful lol. You need to look past the headlines to find this kind of stuff. Women have excellent PR and everyone tries to pander to them. Government, academia, marketing, religion, Hollywood, etc. are all on women's side for the most part and cling to half-truths that paint women in the best light (while smearing men).