"After beating him with a frying pan and stabbing him with a kitchen knife, a Rothesay woman avoided jailtime and returned home with her victim/boyfriend. Judge Henrik Tonning couldn't deny if the male/female roles were reversed, the penalty would likely be harsher."

rmbarnes · 2010-01-28T13:14:34+00:00

"More likely he would be incarcerated for a significant period of time," Tonning said. "(But) I don't intend to rock the boat today."

Well someone needs to start rocking the fucking boat, because justice is meant to be blind.

2010-01-28T13:38:11+00:00

Nice to see they at least admit to their sexists bigotry...

PierceHarlan · 2010-01-28T18:30:05+00:00

Need to hear from the feminists on this one. No excuse for this double standard.

gprime · 2010-01-28T16:11:35+00:00

The fact that he wanted the charges dropped all together (and for that matter wants to continue living with her) leaves me inclined to ignore the outrageousness of the light, gender-biased sentence, and instead wondering if he shouldn't be forced to receive mental help himself.

2010-01-28T20:34:55+00:00

WTF is that judge even saying that for - it makes it worse. I guess that's the point though as the sqeeky wheel gets the grease.

Don't stab me ho!

Kuonji · 2010-01-28T15:01:14+00:00

Ok, here's the thing.

If the husband forgives the wife, or sides with the wife, then the judge has no justice to serve. If the parties agree then their is no need to adjudicate over the outcome, just sign off on the agreement and be done with it. Even in criminal cases this can be done.

The problem isn't that women get special privalage, it's that men get utterly persecuted. This outcome seems to be a fairly moderate and balanced one, somthing that should happen more often than not.

Obviously in the bigger picture the problem is that our justice systema aren't being used to achieve justive, but to achieve some personal satisfaction. which isn't actually justice.

linkedlist · 2010-01-28T17:08:26+00:00

No shit, a man who takes a beating like that from a woman is clearly a pussy, vice versa and we're dealing with a woman basher. One is a lot worse than the other, a man can defend himself, a woman can't. A man who claims he can't defend himself against a woman is a pussy if he's telling the truth and should be greatly ashamed of himself.