From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: Re: Males Doing it to Themselves
Summary: Common sense leads to disparate treatment.
Keywords: feminist wish-fantasies; mesomorphic thugs
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:44:55 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.

In article <robert.711838032@labyrinth> robert@informix.com (Robert Coleman) 
writes:

>jcr@milton.u.washington.edu (Mr. EuStress) writes:

>>  Does our legal system have an anti Male bias?
>>  Of course it does -- it kills, fines and jails
>>  men FAR FAR FAR more than women.
>>     But its MALES who are doing it to themselves
>>  -- due to their own competitiveness.   [Mr. EuStress]

>	Beg pardon?  Males are in competition with women to receive longer
>sentences?  Male judges are in competition with each other to give men longer
>sentences for the same crime than women?  What in the world do you mean?
>[Robert Coleman]

I don't know what Mr. EuStress means, but let me point out the obvious:
Anyone who has ever looked around at boys and girls, men and women, in
the real world, knows that boys and men are more aggressive and more
violent than girls and women.  This is true in every society on earth.
There is neuro-endocrinological evidence to show that men's greater
aggressiveness is *innate*, meaning we are *born that way*.  Some may
*wish* that this were not true, that by changing "cultural conditioning"
and other aspects of people's environment we could make men no more
aggressive than women, but the only ones who profess to *believe* this
are feminists, and no society in its right mind would build its justice
system on feminist wish-fantasies.  Any legal system that wound up fining 
and jailing equal numbers of men and woman would have to be unjust.

But wait!  What about the evidence that women who commit violent crimes
get off with lighter sentences than men who commit the very same crimes?
Well, I believe that the majority of violent crimes -- robberies, murders,
muggings, and the like -- are committed by men who are *repeat offenders*.
These are men and boys who were previously convicted of violent crime,
and whom the "justice" system released on the assumption that they had
been "rehabilitated" in prison.  How many female repeat violent offenders
are there, especially against strangers?

I admit it:  The ones I want behind bars for a long time are the ones
I'm afraid will hurt me or my family.  They're the ones who have been
convicted of violent crimes against strangers.  I'm not afraid of some
broad [sic] who bumped off her boy-friend or beat up her husband's
girl-friend or the like.  I'm not even afraid of "Squeaky" and the
rest of the "Manson girls."  I don't care if she gets a lighter sentence,
'cause when she gets out, she won't pose any danger to me.  But the
young mesomorphic violent thug ought to be put away until he is too 
old to harm anyone.  That's only common sense.  And just as in virtually
every area of life, common sense means different treatment of men and
women.

					-- Matt Rosenblatt
                                        (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)

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