California's Jam-Packed Prisons: feminism doesn't care about this gender inequality

celeryrootsoup · 2011-05-26T00:17:51+00:00

Take a look at that photo. See how most of the men pictures don't appear to be white? That's why nobody gives a shit. They're men, and most of them aren't even white men, so most mainline feminists don't give a single little fucking shit.

TDOM · 2011-05-26T15:18:04+00:00

Feminists absoutely care about this. In Great Britain they have developed a plan that would help end prison overcrowding, at least for a while. There the feminists have suggested that no woman should ever be sent to prison and all incarcerated women should be set free. Then the former women's prison could be converted to men's prisons.

ShakeyBobWillis · 2011-05-26T07:31:29+00:00

Well that's provably false.

chavelah · 2011-05-26T10:38:05+00:00

Because Mother Jones is a famously antifeminist press outlet. No feminists on staff there, no sirree!

If you're going to suggest that feminists are particularly uncaring about prisoner rights (and I don't know why you'd say such a thing), try not to disprove your own point with the article you link to.

Now, if you want to complain that leftists-in-general don't prioritize reform of our criminal justice system they way it deserves to be prioritized, I'm right there with you and I'm guilty of it myself. Not because I'm a feminist, but because education and access to health care are the issues that grab my attention most of the time IRL. It's very easy to "forget" about people in prison. There's a huge social stigma around being incarcerated, despite the fact that literally half the people in jail are there for things that the majority of our citizenry don't really care about (like drug use).

Title	California's Jam-Packed Prisons: feminism doesn't care about this gender inequality
Author	phlake14222
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Date	May 25, 2011 7:54 PM UTC (15 years ago)
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