This should be especially exciting to tech feminists who are striving for gender equality and are surely outraged about the crime sentencing gap which jails men for 63% longer than women who commit the same crimes.
Yep, speaking as a pretty staunch feminist (though by no means any sort of formal spokesperson), it is exciting to see a move toward greater justice on this front. I'm sure it's not universal, but just about every feminist site that I've ever spent time on (and just about every feminist I've known) is upset by the ways in which the gender biases in our society hurt and constrain men as well as women. It's a very real and frequently stated hope that as social attitudes toward men and women become less polarized, everyone will be better off (and issues like criminal sentencing and fathers' rights are prime examples of that).
Mind you, different people have different senses of where the easiest or most urgent places are to advance that broad cause. But that's true of all of us, and not just in feminism: some people make charitable gifts to local soup kitchens, others to global malaria prevention, and yet others to the EFF. That's why it's so crucial for a wide range of people to be part of the feminist movement: to effect large-scale social change, we need people with passion working on as many fronts as possible.
Speaking for myself here, but yes, as a rule, we are. Profiling and discrimination based on race and gender is a terrible thing, and arguably even more so when it interacts with the provision of justice. This is true whether it is re-victimization of abuse survivors, the racist characterization of young black men as inherently dangerous or criminal, or any other double standards based on a person's birth rather than their actions.
Mind you, different people have different senses of where the easiest or most urgent places are to advance that broad cause. But that's true of all of us, and not just in feminism: some people make charitable gifts to local soup kitchens, others to global malaria prevention, and yet others to the EFF. That's why it's so crucial for a wide range of people to be part of the feminist movement: to effect large-scale social change, we need people with passion working on as many fronts as possible.