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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
No, it is not called sexism, it is called the decent upon of humankind.
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SF - it may not be pernicious sexism, but that doesn't make it any less sexist, whether I were to agree with your overall point or not.
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To think that men and women should be treated by the same standards is intolerable.
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And yet, the only difference that ought to matter is plumbing.
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Should women be sent to the front line of a war, to fight and die like men? Of course not.
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Of course they should. Fewer wars that way.
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In the worst cases a woman may be sent to prison, but it is a pretty serious thing, especially as she is also a mother.
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More serious than having her child tended by a criminal? The problem with the position you're taking is it diminishes the seriousness of sending a man to prison. It is a potentially life destroying event. Of the two guys I know who went to prison, one is (for all I know) still there (for repeatedly violating his probation) and the other - one of the 2 or 3 most brilliant minds I have ever encountered - is working at a halfway house and engaged in pirate radio. This from a guy who really ought to be running the country.
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In my opinion it is pretty sexist to say that women should be thrown in jail just the same as if they were some kind of common hoodlums, because her boyfriend mixed her up in some bad business, and she lied about cheating in a sport.
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We'll get to cheating. Her boyfriend mixing her up in some bad business 1) is way too generous, I think and 2) pretty much the definition of Common Hoodlum. I'd say it were sexist to limit attribution hooliganism solely to men. There are oh so many female punks and criminals out there, and the number is going up.
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Cheating is cheating, and the only punishment for cheating in a sport should relate to sanctions by the governing body of the sport.
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AMEN! There is nothing about sport so serious that it should ever rise to the level of a criminal offense.
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If she is said to have committed perjury presumably she was questioned by some kind of court about drug taking, but drug taking in sport is not a criminal offense, so why was she compelled to make statements under oath?
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Didn't work for Clinton either. (I sympathize, but that's not the way the law works.)
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The cads who would place a young mother in this situation are as much villians as the coaches who exploited her and forced the steroids on her.
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Cads - yes, but for reasons unrelated to this particular instance.
I think you have an idealized vision of this woman. I doubt she was forced to do anything. Being scum, like any other occupation, has become equal opportunity. I'm not saying that's what she is, jut that it can't be ruled out on the basis of sex. Or motherhood, for that matter. Plenty of delightful stories out there proving that it's often a very good idea to separate mother from children. Google "Fark Mother of the Year" for links to a panoply of such instances.