What legal rights do women have that men don't?

RapeMatters · 2017-06-01T05:42:35+00:00

Well, I can name a few things:

1st - They have the right to get a driver's license and college assistance without signing up to be killed at the government's whim.

2nd - They have the right to actually get police help when they are suffering rape or domestic violence, whereas men are typically either arrested or charged with a crime if they try to report being a victim of rape or domestic violence.

3rd - While women generally have the legal right in all 50 states to unilaterally abandon their parental rights and responsibilities after birth, men have no such right in any state outside of unusual corner cases (mom in jail when birth occurs, or surrenders the child to the father without going through the legal permutations of exercising her right).

There's quite a few other things, but those are probably the high points.

iainmf · 2017-06-01T06:12:00+00:00

Protection from genital mutilation written into the law for women only.

Positive discrimination for women written into the law. That is, it is not considered discrimination to advantage women, and women's issues must, by law, be considered in certain circumstances.

Laws that allow women lesser penalties than if a man did the same crime (infanticide).

And if you consider equal application of the law a legal right then there are a lot more issues.

Men are treated more harshly than women in the justice system, family courts etc.

And there are also de facto issues like more government services for women.

TinKnockinMoroccan · 2017-06-01T05:54:25+00:00

Not having parts sliced off at birth?

Demonspawn · 2017-06-01T13:19:43+00:00

I know you're just trolling, but for everyone else:

Women's rights that men don't have, granted by law:

A commission on the status of women in every state, funded by taxpayer dollars (men only have one, in NH, and it is unfunded).

Tax benefits for being a "woman-owned business"

Government contracts guaranteed to women-owned (and minority owned) businesses.

Violence Against Women Act.

IMBRA

The right to bodily integrity (FGM is outlawed, MGM is fully legal)

Full rights to their own born children. Men only get rights to their children when granted by the courts or by the legal precedent of marriage to the mother.

A department of Women's health. (yet women live 7 years longer than men on average.)

An Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. (yet men are twice as likely to be the victims of a violent attack.)

I can continue with the hundreds of government departments for women with no corresponding department for men, but I think you get the point.

Women's rights that men don't have granted by legal precedent:

The right to abortion (yes, this is a legal precedent, not a law).

The right to abandon her child without her partner's consent.

The right to place her child up for adoption without the other parent's consent (and sometimes against that consent)

The right to lower jail sentences for the same crime, more likely to receive probation than incarceration and also shorter periods of incarceration.

The right "not to be offended" in the workplace.

The right to have a man evicted from his home because she's "afraid" of him.

The right to make false allegations of rape/DV/Child Abuse with relative impunity.

The right to keep custody of children after divorce unless PROVEN to be an unfit parent.

The right to have a man arrested on only her word, with no supporting evidence, upon an allegation of rape.

The right to women-only clubs/gyms/accommodations.

The right to use depression, PMS, or "being controlled by a man" as a legal defense and having way more of a chance of it working (not an absolute right, but Mary Winkler is getting it there)

The right to a standard of "self defense" that does not include an immediate threat.

This list continues, but I'll move on.

Responsibilities that men have which women do not by law:

Selective service (The Draft).

A requirement to list themselves on a putative father listing to have even the thinest rights to their children.

To support their Wives (these laws are still on the books. Husbands can be charged with abandonment, wives cannot.)

Responsibilities that men have which women do not by legal precedent:

To financially support their children (1: custodial mothers are not slapped with a "earn this much or go to jail" order. 2: NCP mothers are rarely ordered to support their children when in the custody of the father.)

The responsibility to accept being forced into parenthood against their will. (This is a combination of law and precedent)

The responsibility to get over their past as men cannot use prior abuse as a legal defense.

mikesteane · 2017-06-01T08:14:37+00:00

Quota based privileges: where women are in the majority, quotas are never introduced either in education or work.

The right to murder their spouse if prepared to declare that he was abusive.

bufedad · 2017-06-01T10:08:03+00:00

The right to bodily integrity. A doctor is currently facing charges for pricing a clitoral. A ceremonial pin prick is a chargeable offense. And MGM is not.

The right to self defense. Men who report being the victim of domestic abuse are more likely to be arrested than helped.

Reproductive rights.

They have the right to default custody during divorce.

There are others, but I'm on mobile.

HisMortimerness · 2017-06-01T11:38:22+00:00

A lot of this depends on the country where you're asking. If you extend this question to the european countries, you will find that in some/most countries...

legally men can't be the victim of rape
public nudity is an offense only if the nude person is male
female genital mutilation is illegal, male isn't (although europe is nowhere near the insane circumsition rates that the US have)
selective service applies to men only
only women can fill government positions tasked with improving 'gender equality'
homosexual men are excluded from donating blood, homosexual women are not
in public parking garages, a significant percentage of all parking lots must be reserved for women
men have to work more to a higher age than women before they're allowed to retire

These apply to Germany, Switzerland, the UK, Austria, France etc. and this list is nowhere near complete.

Oh, and there is one thing that favors men:

When you have to pay to use a restroom, sometimes men can take a piss for free.

double-happiness · 2017-06-01T10:35:03+00:00

http://thoughtcatalog.com/janet-bloomfield/2014/08/5-legal-rights-women-have-that-men-dont/

number4ty7 · 2017-06-01T11:54:15+00:00

I wonder how long this post would last in r/feminism with the gender reversed? Anyone want to try it? I'm banned.

thehomeversion · 2017-06-01T11:06:53+00:00

Sounds like a troll to me

HisMortimerness · 2017-06-01T11:42:33+00:00

You'll never change her mind, why bother?

2017-06-01T14:10:18+00:00

To keep keep their whole and intact genitals.

-redditardation- · 2017-06-01T15:24:21+00:00

The right to genital integrity.

Rasalom72 · 2017-06-01T14:30:33+00:00

Men do not get to murder their unborn children.

platewrecked · 2017-06-01T05:34:29+00:00

Rights? None. They do, however, have lots of gender based entitlements like scholarships and grants and, most importantly, they have the legal defenses to crazy violence such as "Battered Woman Syndrome".

There is much privilege to be reaped by those split-tails that bitch about male privilege.

Toolongdidntreproduc · 2017-06-01T16:37:54+00:00

You may not mean it as a troll post but all your responses make it clear you're a troll.

Title	What legal rights do women have that men don't?
Author	TinKnockinMoroccan
Upvotes	18
Comments	66
Date	June 1, 2017 5:14 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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