Check Out Another Damned Pussy Pass
How long are we to endure this ridiculous double standard in our criminal justice system? Here’s a violent woman who seriously injured two other women after punching a man. She wan’t even charged for hitting the man! If a man had hit a woman in exactly the same circumstances he would certainly have been charged with the sexist ‘male assaults female’ offence for which the imprisonment tariff is double that for a female offender. But even that’s not enough pro-female discrimination for police who didn’t even bother charging this woman at all for assaulting a man.
And for her serious, sustained, completely unjustified violence that has caused two victims enduring, possibly permanent physical and mental injury? This fat bully gets 9 months home detention, some community work and a pittance of restitution to the victims!
Somewhat typical for women, this female offender did not take responsibility for her violence, minimizing her culpability and even claiming she wasn’t a violent person. Any man like that could expect no mercy. Here though the judge made the remarkable statement:
“For a woman of 22 [to be sent to prison] would be a life-changing event. The chances of you recovering your life would be minimal in my view”
WHAT THE FUCK?! Tell that to the thousands of young men sent to prison each year for much less! And the prisons the males get sent to are much less comfortable and caring than any female prison.
Men are being imprisoned for years for such offences as failing to get ‘consent’ signed in triplicate, for minor indecent touching decades ago and even for breaching CENSORSHIP laws. Sure, it’s appropriate to punish men when they break the law but where’s the proportionality and gender equality here?
And notice how the news article begins the story by referring to the offender as “Young mum…”. She’s not particularly young, and when do we see violent male offenders defined on the basis of their parenthood status?
We see the same thing happening in Parliament – Clare Curran should have been sacked months ago.
Now we see the PM finally woman up and slap the incompetent idiot with a wet bus ticket and shuffle her back into the pack next to the Joker.
Comment by Evan Myers — Sun 26th August 2018 @ 8:16 am
How far do you have to look to find another pussy pass?
Comment by Downunder — Sun 26th August 2018 @ 4:08 pm
@2: Regarding the 284 Corrections staff who have been suspended between 2013 and 2016, it would be interesting to know the gender breakdown. One assumes that if a male prison officer had an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with a female inmate, he would be suspended and worse. Certainly, the inmate wouldn’t be blamed for the inappropriate relationship as happened for the male inmate and female prison officer in your linked story.
Comment by Ministry of Men's Affairs — Sun 26th August 2018 @ 6:40 pm
This pro-female discrimination comes up most days. Here’s one today, a woman who murdered her autistic daughter and was imprisoned for 4 years and now about to be released after less than two years. Yes, her light sentence may well be fair-minded under the circumstances, but would a man who did exactly the same thing get such sympathetic treatment? No way.
Comment by Ministry of Men's Affairs — Thu 30th August 2018 @ 7:43 pm
4.. I for one do not believe he would, in fact most certainly not.
Comment by mama — Thu 30th August 2018 @ 7:52 pm
Be interesting to see what happen to the associate minister whom assaulted a staff member, talk about taking your post too seriously, maybe it is her way of reigning in local government, maori justice perhaps..
Comment by mama — Thu 30th August 2018 @ 8:02 pm
@6: We believe that the problems with ministers have resulted from sexist selection and promotion criteria by the Labia Party, which has proudly followed a policy of making such decisions on the basis of female gender over merit. It’s important that the NZ public are not allowed to forget that policy, but unfortunately most NZ media are reluctant to criticize the Labia Party or most ‘left-wing’ fashionable causes.
Comment by Ministry of Men's Affairs — Thu 30th August 2018 @ 10:00 pm