MRAs spend an awful lot of time getting worked up by hypothetical injustices. On the Men’s Rights subreddit, angry Men’s Rightsers regularly post links to stories of women behaving badly – or who may have been charged with or convicted of a crime – with indignant headlines suggesting that the women in question would be treated far worse if “she had been a man.”
The latest example of this outrage over imagined injustices? This post, found in r/mensrights today, with 87 net upvotes:
If you follow the link, it goes to a brief story about the alleged incident in The Huffington Post. I say “alleged” because the woman in question has not yet been convicted of anything. As the story reports, the police arrested her because
school staff told them the assembly was halted and the cafeteria cleared after Meaders began dancing onstage and took off some of her clothes.
She’s charged with seven counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of public lewdness.
An Albany City Court clerk says Meaders was arraigned Friday afternoon and ordered held on $3,000 bail. She doesn’t have a lawyer yet.
There is no mention of putting her on a sex offenders registry because, and let me be blunt here, YOU HAVE TO BE CONVICTED OF A CRIME TO GET PUT ON ONE. She’s merely been CHARGED.
There is no “pussy pass” for women that enables them to bypass the sex offenders registry ONCE THEY ARE CONVICTED of public lewdness. The relevant NY State law can be found here; as you can see, the gender of the convicted offender is not an issue. (It took all of 30 seconds on Google to dig that up.) Meaders isn’t getting special treatment because she’s a woman; she’s not on the offenders registry because an arrest is not the same as a conviction.
Enjoy your imagined oppression, fellas.
Culo is ass.
“Really? Then why do you say things like, “neighborhoods that would prevent those kind of things to happen (a case, when the victim had the incredible courage to go to the police, judged many years after the events and a ridiculous sentencing in order to avoid riots) “, and make a point that in a crowd from, “those neighborhoods”, there are, quelle horreur, “two or three whites”.”
Yes, that’s not true : there’s is a segregation, there’s the place of the “français de souche”, the white French and places where what politics call “the diversity” is, at least a real diversity. Ironically, these places where you found Blacks, Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, some Indian and Vietnamese are the place where the “integration” worked in the sense that all these populations live together and call and define themselves first as “banlieusards”, people of the banlieue, which is not a color, not a religion, not an origin, but a way to talk, a way to dress, and a shared experience of living in “banlieues” that all look the same.
Jade Garden is a chinese euphemism for vulva. Period of Lao Tsu and Li Po. Jade is smooth, and rich, and has a visual depth.
It’s not as if English isn’t possessed of odd euphemisms. I happen to like the late ’70s, early, ’80s, french slang of, “praline” for the clitoris.
Can’t stick the flounce, can you? Colour me surprised.
@Brz
Leave already.
Why do they never leave? *fake sobs* 😉
Oh Brz… couldn’t even stick the flounce for the evening.
Teach me to take a nap…
As far as we’ve been able to tell, Kittehs, the people here who keep telling him that we don’t like him and that he should go away are the closest thing that he has to friends.
Presumably he enjoys the bitter happiness of people disliking him.
So, not to change the subject but my cat just tried to put on my jeans. They were hanging over the back of the chair, and Buster stuck her head into the waist and then started to crawl inside. She only made it about halfway in, and then she lost her footing and [kerplunk] back into the chair. And then she turned and looked at me reproachfully. What a goofball.
If only I’d had my camera or phone handy.
cloudiah – they know, don’t they? They always know when we don’t have a camera or phone ready, and do all their cutest/goofiest stuff then!
I can just see that reproachful look, too. 😀
The funniest time I got that reproachful look from my cat was when she ran past me, out the door, into a thunderstorm. It took her about 30 seconds to realize she as getting soaked. She ran back inside and glared at me. Because, obviously, I had made it rain and tricked her by failing to stop her.
Goofy.
She sounds like Katie. Four years in and she’s still convinced snow is something Mr K and I do just to upset her.
Mads gave me the reproachful look the other day. Her breakfast bowl wasn’t full. It was far from empty, but it wasn’t full. Terrible how people treat a poor starving cat.
I live in the PNW. My cats give me the stink eye every day for three months out of every year.
My friend Twerpazoid used to wahoo until I couldn’t stand it any more and opened the door. (they have their own that she knew perfectly well how to use) She would stick her nose out shake her foot and give me the stink eye. It was hilarious. She was five and a quarter pounds of ferocious Siamese and brooked no nonsense from the cats the peeps or the weather.
I can see that Mads is just wasting away. (She has pretty torbie markings!)
Motley’s new thing is sitting at the table during dinner.
She’s onna brinka starvation. It must be true, she tells us so every day and you can see she’s c’lapsed with teh weakness.
thebewilderness – LOL I can just picture the three-months-of-stinkeyes.
Motley is adorbs!!!!!!!
Some Gal, I had a cat who did the exact same thing but then to maintain her “dignity” she decided to stay out in the rain for a while to prove that it was totally intentional. I sat there with the door open trying to coax her back in, and she just sat there in the rain grooming herself for 10 minutes, and then casually sauntered back in.
That was the dearly departed Cookie.
Aw, Mads and Motley are so cute.
One of my apartments in London had a big ledge under the window. My old cat would run around on it chasing snowflakes and trying to eat them.
Can I panic about something OT? I’m getting a tattoo on Friday, it will be my first. I’m ridiculously good with pain, I’ve had over 70 piercings, but people either fall into ‘you’ll be fine’ or ‘you’lll be dead’, without actually giving any hint as to what the pain will be like. Any hints?
Nat, the pain is not bad. It’s a sort of burning feeling, but not the sharp burning that makes you jump away when you touch something hot. And that’s the needle they use for linework; the one they use for shading is barely painful at all, it’s more of an itchy feeling.
Mine felt like a sort of buzzy itch that got warm to sort of hot. The first one on my breast only took twenty minutes – simple black line work on soft tissue, easy. The second on my upper arm took about an hour with all the shading and I did have a break in the middle, but more because of the constant itch/burn sensation than because of pain-pain.
Oh and my mum had one on her upper arm when she was seventy-something and she’s not into pain at all. 🙂