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Here is an excerpt from a report :  Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2008-09

ƒƒ Most victims of staff sexual misconduct were males; most
perpetrators were females. Among male victims of staff, those in jails reported sexual activity with female staff. An
additional 16% of prison inmates and 18% of jail inmates
reported sexual activity with both female and male staff.

The report is available here: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/svpjri0809.pdf

So, our society would have you believe that men are the pervs (all of us), and women are always the victim. This report seems to show that, not only are women just as invested in rape as men are, they are leading the category. This actually is not surprising considering that women staff in prisons are given a higher level of authority over male prisoners than male staff in female prisons. Female prison guards are allowed to do strip searches including pat downs on male prisoners and in most cases any where and anytime they choose. Male staff are usually not even allowed to be present when female prisoners are strip searched and usually female strip searches are done in a private area out of view of anyone else. Just more examples of the horrible double standard that exists exacerbated by the misreporting in media and the misrepresentation in shows on TV and film. Additionally, the report shows that the majority of victims in female prisons are assaulted by another female prisoner, making the number of female perpetrators soar even higher. To give these reports real numbers as extrapolated from the table on page 23, there were 43,455 male inmates assaulted by staff in prison or jail, of those, 67.6% were assaulted by a female staffer alone, and 16.6% were assaulted by a female staffer and a male staffer together. So of the 53,455 male inmates included in the report, 17,323 were assaulted by a Male Staff and 50,134 were assaulted by a Female Staff. Even more surprising, of the 3,608 female inmates included in the report, 1,192 were assaulted by a Male Staff and 3,552 were assaulted by a Female Staff. Combined, of the 57,063 prisoners, 18,515 were assaulted by a Male Staffer and 53,686 were assaulted by a Female Staffer. Shockingly, the percentage of Female Staff perpetrators is the same whether it is a Male Inmate or Female Inmate. Tell me that result is what everyone expected based on the way Hollywood writes the scripts for their TV shows and the media reports on crimes.

another interesting read: http://www.canadiancrc.com/Female_Sex_Offenders-Female_Sexual_Predators_awareness.aspx

I was reading the updates on my Linked-In account. One of the people who used to work for a company I used to work for started a company doing marketing using social media. I thought I would read more. I went to her linked-in page. After reading some, I saw a list of interests she had. I like to know more about the people I do business with so I took a look. There was a link to a blog she was subscribed to called Crafty Dames. Title from there page: Dickless Artists Making Everything Swell is a San Antonio based, feminist crafting society. Now, if a guy created a post similar but opposite of that for men, wouldn’t we be labeled a sexist and berated by every female that ran across the site? I quickly deleted her from my Linked-In account. No Soup for You!

We got into an argument over the weekend about needing to earn more money. I earn a pretty good income and occasionally it fluctuates with the company’s cash flow. In addition, the company pays some of our personal expenses as business expenses so that should count towards my contribution but it doesn’t appear so (truck payment, all cell phones, some personal credit cards). We even paid a large settlement on a credit debt using company money which resulted in additional income tax passed through to us from the company which falls on me. I work an average of 70+ hours per week. A while back my wife quit her job at a public school to go to work at a private school for 1/2 the wages. While I was asked for my opinion, it really wasn’t a situation where I had any influence. Additionally she is taking night classes and accumulating student loan debt that we will have to pay off. The problem comes in that when there is a larger stack of bills than there is money in the bank, suddenly I get attacked for not making enough. Why can’t I go to work for someone else and get a real job.

Why is it that women get to select the type of work they want to do based on personal preference and not on income and we guys don’t? And then we are expected to work extra hours or get a second job to help make ends meet while they claim to be the victim of the glass ceiling and unequal opportunity and unequal pay? And then after we work all those extra hours they complain that we don’t help them out as much as they want us to with the laundry and the dishes? How often do they help us out with the outdoor chores? Fixing the car? Going out in the cold of winter to dig up a water pipe and repair it? fix a roof leak? And my biggest objection? While I am out doing the man’s job of fixing something around the house, she is watching Fringe or House, or some chick flick with a bunch of half naked 25 year old gay males who just so represent a cross section of the male population and are not being objectified in the least.

Can you say double standard!