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Gender Double Standards

As a man: Your friends are at a party, eyeing a girl. You see one of them slip something in the girl's drink. You're not sure what he did, but a few minutes later, you see your friends carrying her out. What do you do? To anyone who is not a sociopathic piece of shit, the answer is obvious. Most guys would intervene. Society would scream at any man who did not intervene. It would be immoral to not protect the innocent. Let's flip the script. As a woman: Your roommate had sex with a man. You were in the house while they were having sex. You heard them making out, and it sounded consensual to you. The next day, police are at your apartment. Your roommate claims she had been raped. What do you do? How many women, in the above example, would defend the man who is about to be falsely accused of rape? In American prisons, a man who is convicted of rape will almost certainly himself be raped...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 13, 2010 (boomark / email).