That ain't gonna fly anymore. Along with this new prisoner consciousness has also come a new prison subject-women prisoners. The conditions of women prisoners are worse than those of men. While many are imprisoned for the same crimes, there is a double standard in the law, especially when it comes to women defending themselves against the violence of their spouses. Many put up with years of abuse to themselves and their children until they are killed.
Many women also strike back in self-defense.
However, the state will not hear their self-defense pleas. Instead, women are usually convicted and sent to prison for life. It is impossible to think that a man who lived through what a woman lived through would have been seen as a criminal. A man held at knife point, beaten with fists, kicked, pistol whipped, tied up and left for hours to listen to his children in the next room being beaten and then released to be brutally sodomized would not have ever been arrested on murder charges if he finally got free long enough to shoot the perpetrator. He would more likely be given praise and viewed as a hero defending his life and the lives of his children.