LadySkinsFan

I have posted in the past that perps of either sex should be punished the same. My focus is the patriarchy which mostly benefits men.

Not really stand your ground, more like Castle defense.

And here's the point: it's the ****ing system whereby it's mostly men who offend. Their prey is anyone who these predators consider prey, men, women, and children. It's the offenders who need punished like this offensive behavior is outside the boundaries of civilized society. Instead, the system doesn't punish the offenders significantly to show that predation won't be tolerated. The offenders get a pass, they don't get shamed, they get off with probation, not having to register as sex offenders. And the predators getting off lightly are those who <edit out this word don't> have economic power. Look at your local sex offender registeries, most are a few women, and men of color and white men of the lower economic levels. The biggest shock in the last few years was the predator cop who was sentenced to a couple of centuries for preying on citizens, mostly women as I recall. Even he was shocked, his face showed it. He thought he'd get off lightly because he was a cop. He appealed his sentence and it was rejected. This is the kind of punishment for predation that needs to happen, regardless of economic status. That's my point. My other point is that as a woman, MY focus is women and by extension children. What you focus on is up to you.

Corrected it, yes, five!

I agree with post. Since the majority of the problem is perpetrated by men, that's my focus. I read on my FB page today a post written by a Frenchwoman friend who said she had a nightmare last night brought on by memories of her rape experience over 20 years ago. So it never goes away, the fear, the constant monitoring of surroundings, the people approaching on the street or car. How wonderful life would be if we didn't have to spend this enormous time and energy on staying safe. Men just don't get this because it's not something they have to think about. We're not safe even in our homes.

Also, I didn't notice at first but do now, the female praying mantises have eyelashes too.

Words to remember in the voting booth. Our present president covers all five of these toxic attributes. Octavia E. Butler "Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."

Others claim gravity is a myth, there is no such thing as space, the Sun isn’t 93million miles away and the edge of the planet is a huge wall of ice. Someone's watched too much GoT! Also, they must not believe the story about the apple falling on Issac Newton's head.

And think of the numbers of his child victims that might exist in the world. Because if he didn't think it was bad, and he associated with Epstein, he was probably satisfying his urges. The reality is that in patriarchy if you aren't a man, and particularly a white man or the man in power regardless, women and children are viewed as objects to be consumed, for labor, childbearing and rearing, and sex. And it still prevails to this day, with the attendant power structures in place like law enforcement and the courts. All you have to do to realize this is look at all the articles where men and boys get out of punishment for rape. Like saying that he's a very fine boy and we don't want to ruin his future. No thought given to this very fine boy's victim who live with the violation for the rest of her life. I know that some of you think that I'm nuts to keep writing about this. You have only to really look at some of the posts on this forum for examples of what I write about, written by your own selves. If we don't acknowledge and change this behavior, it will continue to exist.

Gotta start somewhere.

Don't forget money laundering accusations. Most likely a state crime too as well as federal.

I certainly stared at it!

Maybe that's a difference of observation between women and men.