You don't have to think them innocent of the charges, or that they shouldn't be held accountable for their crimes, to notice that some women are being severely punished for things that men are routinely allowed to get away with.

Jan 4, 2022 · 2:18 AM UTC

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Not the point and welcome to being Black in America. Maybe the 50%+ white women who voted for the cheese man will realize that patriarchy hates them too.
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Like taking advantage of men when they’re drunk? Or hitting men? Or calling men who won’t sleep with them gay?
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>>>In 2012 Sonja B. Starr from University of Michigan Law School found that, controlling for the crime, "men receive 63% longer sentences on average than women do," and "[w]omen are…twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Until enough people wake up and realize that it has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with class, you can count on more of the same.
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i’ve followed you for a long time but defending outright silicon valley-pharma fraud is truly, truly beyond the pale
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Agreed but still got off on defrauding the patients but not investors so it’s still about Class
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Like who? Like what?
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I thought the same thing. This doesn’t mean what the women did was any less terrible, only that it seems awfully disproportionate.