This article really touched a nerve. Probably because I have a work colleague that is going through an ugly separation, and is being dragged through the mud for no reason other than
SHE SAID he slapped her daughter. Never mind that there was no medical proof, police evidence, or anything else to support her claim. So far, he has lost his house, his business, his friends, and has been made to go through 15 weeks of counseling and 14 weeks of "anger management". I have only worked with this guy for about seven months, but I can tell you, that the only "anger" that I see coming from him, is the anger directed towards the "system", and what they are putting him through. The part that really fries him, is, if he were to accuse
HER of something, he would need a mountain of evidence to back him up.
If you read the article before you read the rest of this post, you might think that I am comparing apples to oranges. Well, it's more like mackintosh to granny smith apples. an apple is still an apple. In the article,
LICIA CORBELLA makes
a good point:
"Ask yourself this question. What would happen, do you think, to a man who admitted to leaving a newborn infant head down in a toilet?"..."Contrast that reality with what has happened to the woman who gave birth to a baby boy in a Wal-Mart washroom in Prince Albert, Sask., on May 21 and it's clear that when it comes to equality before the law, women tend to get off easy in comparison to men.
The baby boy was found, not breathing head down in a bloody toilet bowl by the store manager..."
On blogs and news websites, while the vast majority of comments express disgust, the predictable mushy pap we so often hear about women who commit crimes emerged.
One states: "There are so many plausible circumstances that could have lead this woman to do this ... walk a mile in her shoes.... We can't judge until we know all the details."
Criminologist Dr. Mahfooz Kanwar, a sociology professor at Mount Royal College in Calgary, says the very same people who argue that women should be treated equally with men with regard to opportunities, demand softer treatment with regard to consequences for criminal acts -- making excuses for women based on them being "emotionally fragile".
"If a man had done what she has allegedly done," says Kanwar, "he'd be charged with attempted murder.
I think that maybe my point is being made. We MUST get off this "hug the criminal woman", and "throw away the key if it's a man" mentality. Women must be held to an equal standard as men are with regards to the law. I think that a lot of women would be shocked at how bad they would be treated.