But that's a gobsmackingly outrageous claim. Lucky for you there are next to no women on this forum.
Hello if you still lurk here. And sorry about all this.
Well that's how I see it. It's just obvious. On the one hand you have the misogynistic stereotype of the 'Feminazi', and on the other, feminists who are only too happy to fit that stereotype by being far more interested in demonizing men than in actual equality.
Drama queen, much?
Please tell me you don't believe what you've written above, and were just annoyed and writing any old crap to try to win the argument? It's not unorthodox to blame women for misogyny, it's just wrong and offensive.
I'm not blaming "women", that's ridiculous. It's not feminism or feminists per se either, but a particularly dogmatic strain of feminism. I'm pretty sure all my female friends would gladly call themselves feminists, but I've never heard any of them come out with some of the mental stuff that Benny does sometimes.
Lol, says the man apologizing on my behalf to people who haven't posted in the best part of a decade in case they're anonymously browsing the forum. It's just that if it's causing that much unpleasantness then I probably shouldn't post here any more.
Lol, says the man apologizing on my behalf to people who haven't posted in the best part of a decade in case they're anonymously browsing the forum. It's just that if it's causing that much unpleasantness then I probably shouldn't post here any more.
Lavinia Woodward, 24, has been told that if she stays off drugs and does not reoffend, she may avoid a prison sentence – immediate or suspended – when she returns to court in September.
After her case was brought to public attention in press reports this week, pictures from her Facebook account were published across the media, and she began to receive threatening messages.
The full details of the case have not been published. The 24-year-old student was described to the court as very vulnerable with psychiatric issues. She is already in rehab. A psychiatric report and a pre-sentence report both concluded that the effect of sending her to jail would be “catastrophic”.
Her ex-partner, a Cambridge University student whom she met on the dating app Tinder, did not need hospital treatment. His fingers were steri-stripped and his 1cm leg wound required stitches which were inserted at the scene.
While the mitigating factors in the sentencing guidelines ask judges to consider whether a defendant has shown otherwise good character or exemplary conduct, there is no specific mention of academic achievement or intelligence. The judge’s comments that she was was an “extraordinarily able lady” and her defence counsel’s reference to her being “bright” – which have attracted public attention to the case – may therefore not be relevant to her sentencing.
The deferred sentence imposed conditions on Woodward, to remain drug and alcohol free and to commit no further offences. The judge said he wished to give her the chance to prove she could continue to rehabilitate herself. Pringle also handed down a five-year restraining order preventing Woodward from having any contact with the victim.
Her ex-partner was not seriously injured, there was no premeditation and she had no previous criminal history. A category 3 offence would normally be dealt with by way of community service; a category 2 offence would have a starting point of a sentence that could be suspended.
Use of a weapon would have counted as an aggravating factor in assessing the offence but the breadknife was merely an object to hand rather than something she had fetched with intent to use. The court also heard that she stabbed herself with the blade.
So you're only blaming some women for this resurgence in misogyny. That's alright then!
So Mr Tea, if this had been the first report you'd read about the case, would you have had the same reaction?
Do you think this woman should go to jail?
And can you see how taking gender into consideration might be a useful perspective, rather than 'bizarre' or 'nuts'?
Plenty of men too. Benny is a man, or presents as one.
Plenty of men too. Benny is a man, or presents as one.
Let me turn that round and ask you what your take would be if the genders were reversed. A "bright" and "promising", but also "vulnerable", man with drug problems violently assaults his girlfriend with a knife. What's your take then?
It's not the men who are actually being misogynist who are responsible?