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Read in full:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolepas/the-wo...gender-peo

Quote:At the station, Shaw was placed alone in a cell — in the men’s cellblock. While she waited in her single cell, in full view of the men in lockup, she says one of them demanded she show him her breasts and said if she didn’t, he’d hit her in the face when they got to the U.S. Marshals’ bullpen. (In D.C., most people in police lockups are later transferred to the custody of the U.S. Marshals, a federal agency within the Department of Justice, before they see a judge.) “I’m facing a lot of time,” she alleges he told her. “I got no problem taking another charge.” Scared, she complied. After, she claims, men in a nearby cell masturbated.

Quote:In police custody, Shaw says a male detainee touched her buttocks in front of an MPD officer, and a marshal later rubbed her breasts, butt, and between her legs for five minutes during a search. “He’s the best I’ve ever seen,” the marshal allegedly said, and joked that her breasts “must be implants, because hormones don’t make breasts stand up so perky.” According to Shaw, later, in the Marshals’ bullpen, male detainees allegedly groped her and she was forced to urinate in a cup in front of men.

I have to preface this story by saying I agree - the transgender woman involved was mistreated. No one should be sexually abused in a cage - male or female.

That said, though Shaw's sexually abuse was heightened by her feminine appearance, this story highlights how terrible prisons are to men. It seems like if we wanted to avoid future incidents, we'd have to take prison rape seriously.

The story reminded me of a comment MikeCF made twitter that said something to the effect of "if prison rape doesn't matter, and genders are equal, we should just have coed prisons... right?" highlighting how absurdly people treat this issue.

The kind of person who'd campaign for trans rights is often also the kind of person who'd also make prison rape jokes if the victim was a man, or say he deserved it. Making this a transgender issue seems like a way of avoiding the fact that NO ONE should be abused in prison, male of female.

It seems like the same way gay marriage was a way of avoiding the hard questions society needed to ask about what marriage had become, transgender rights when arrested are a way to avoid real prison reform, and making the prisons safe for everyone.

Post: #2

I've wasted too much time lately reading shit that doesn't relate to my life in any way whatsoever that I've had to develop some new filter rules.

The Facts

1. It's on Buzzfeed.

2. Written by a woman.

3. With short hair.

4. Wearing glasses.

5. Celebrating deviancy.

Post: #3

^^^

I know I posted it but...

Post: #4

(07-12-2014 07:22 PM)runsonmagic Wrote:  a comment MikeCF made twitter that said something to the effect of "if prison rape doesn't matter, and genders are equal, we should just have coed prisons... right?"

Damn. That's another dose of the Red Pill and I thought I'd already taken my share.

Post: #5

Frankly you would have to seperate prison inmates more strongly based on

- crime committed & violence level
- body weight - fighting weight so to say
- age

The prison system and especially the US penal system is just fucking batshit crazy. Most people should not be in prison anyway and those who are - there are hundreds of ways to improve the system, but currently the corporations are taking it over and some US representatives are getting incentives to "create" more prisoners via tightening of stupid laws etc.

There are countries which have practically no rapes in male prisons - why not check out, what they are doing right? Frankly - the system is fucked up to such a degree that it will never be a problem for the decision makers - actually they will even increase the negativity in those places by design.

Best is to never get caught up in those hell-holes. The viewpoint in the article is predictable:

The most important people according to media and current political climate:

1. Transgenders
2. Gays
3. Women
4. Children
5. Dogs and Cats
6. Farm animals
7. Men