Domination

Monday April 23, 2007 - 1:11PM EDT

So I read this news story today about how a convicted sex offender was found not guilty of kidnapping and raping two 17 year-old girls (his previous conviction was for raping a 12 year-old).  Whether he actually committed the second crime or not at this point is not relevant. The defense stance was that the girls made the story up and had consensual sex with the man to get drugs. So the jury believed that, which is not something totally outlandish. What the problem is here is what in the hell is a person convicted of raping a 12 year-old doing living free in society. I've seen a man put in prison for 30 years for stealing cars to help fund his drug habit. We threw away a man who had a drug problem yet we give this clown another chance. Sexual crimes seem to always have such a deep mental, psychological or even biological problem that those people are basically permanent messed up for their lives.  Why is it that there are so many repeat sex offenders. What is especially disturbing is the repeat offenders who have already been convicted. This is one area where society has never learned their lesson. Punishment for sex crimes are horrible lenient. The blame for this stuff lies squarely with me. Yes myself. A man. Men and their domination of society has made it that these type of acts aren't treated with the seriousness they should be. It's ridiculous. I don't understand how there are statutes that limit rape prosecution.  Some might argue that it is to prevent spurious accusations against people (mainly men) to protect them. What a load of fucking garbage. The idea that a man needs to be protected against a women's allegation of rape is symbolistic of our male dominated thinking and the poor treatment of women in most societies throughout much of recorded human history. Maybe if we haven't treated women so bad for so long such a thing as false rape accusations wouldn't happen (or at least be extremely rare).

It sickens me to think of all the damaging consequences there are to a non-egalitarian human society. I honestly can't imagine what there is to gain or what advantage is there from one gender dominating in human society.  But like I've said before does anyone really want egalitarian society? Do they even know what that would entail? There are probably things that would change that you wouldn't even think of. Things that seem so normal and part of everyday life but are really only the normal for male dominated societies. The gender inequality issue is as tough or tougher than racism. Because while race is not a real indicator of any kind of logical differences gender does have many biological components to differentiate. So how does one accommodate those differences in some areas while not allowing them to affect judgment or outcome in others that shouldn't be affected by the differences.