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Louisiana mayor convicted of raping 16-year-old boy at her home while still in office
(www.theguardian.com)
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I mean in the sense that I have years of experience of one set of things happening, and this is a violation of that trend. It's either unique in terms of the author or the incident in some way that means she doesn't get the softened language typically granted to women and billionaires when they do wrong, or this is the start of a trend. If the latter, I welcome it.
"To women and billionaires." Now, that is a telling line to draw. Did you think I pointed out the cultural moment because billionaires are like women and not like...the obvious impact on everyone's consciousness about sexual violence because our system has obviously enabled a massive pedophile ring?
Just say it was the second option and be serious, no need to word vomit to clean it up and inadvertantly (hopefully unintended) suggest that women are somehow in a similar position of power to commit sexual violence with impunity as some of the most powerful people in a patriarchal society (go look up the demos for billionaires).
I have a tough time believing that a person who talks like this commits much of their time to sexual violence prevention education, ngl.
I'm not implying some sort of general moral equivalency between women and billionaires, but rather merely that both categories routinely get their misdeeds minimized in reporting. The reasons for both are different, with billionaires essentially paying for a white glove treatment while for women it's an effect of the general malagency given them by society. The net effect in how their sexual offenses typically get reported is essentially the same, even if the cause is very different.
If she were a man, that it was called "rape" would be par the course rather than a refreshing exception. Hell, I looked up this very case on Google and of the top 5 stories on the case, 2 refer to her as "having sex", two refer to a "sex crime" (and in the article describe that crime using "having sex" rather than "rape") and the other was the same Guardian article linked in this Lemmy thread. So, yeah...refreshing exception. May it be the start of a trend.
Much like I expect her 10 and 7 year maximum sentences will almost certainly add up to less than 5, probably less than 3, with a significant chance she gets a suspended sentence or some probation instead of prison time - as a society we don't like putting women in prison and we like putting them in prison as long as similarly positioned men even less. We won't see that result until April 17, though.
Lots of signs of some internet education and naturalized perspective going on here. "Malagency" is a word I have never seen in all my years of gender studies and social science education, and all the sources I could find for it are fucking posts on Reddit from users who frequently used "left" terminology in pseudo-intellectual "men's rights" posts and in a Redpill Archive site. In fact, every instance I've found of its use is from manosphere subreddits or archives of those subreddits. To anyone else who this term is new to, they used it as a shorthand for "men are blamed for everything," which they use to launder an argument that depends on men having more agency as true (which positions agency at the individual instead of systemic level) which is, "women are actually hurt by blaming men for everything because it confirms that they have no power." I'm not even fucking kidding, " For example, feminist theory itself may be described in terms of malagency." (https://www.reddit.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/comments/dtj972/the_framework_cause_of_mens_issues_malagency/). This is a very manipulative kind of terminology that would only work on someone who is completely unfamiliar with feminist theory at all. So, they're targeting men who already don't engage with gender studies and create an argument that validates some intuitive observation but misdirects that truth into a distortive construction of how "agency" exists under patriarchy.
So, that's incredibly specific and telling. I was going to explain a bit about how you use a lot of naturalized patriarchal values, but I can only reasonably guess that you understand what you're doing because of how intentional this word choice is and where you clearly have gotten this knowledge.
I am 100% certain that you do not give a single fuck about young men who are victims of sexual violence. You have even sunk to using their victimization to platform views that reproduce the conditions for that violence to continue. Vile behaviour.