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I'm a feminist and I think this woman should be facing life in jail. I'm for a true egalitarian society with the draft for both sexes, divorce settlements based on more than just the one with the vagina gets money and kids, better paternity leave rights for men and less stigma for stay at home dads. I want women to be held accountable for domestic violence and rape, and I want men to have better access to services that assist and protect them with these issues. Heck I want more people to understand women can rape men and that men can be raped. That said Reddit is an echo chamber. Lots of young white guys on here who don't much like feminists so like to complain about how easy women have it compared to them. They bitch about the draft while never having been alive or old enough to qualify during a drafting period. They also bitch about reverse racism and how it's so hard to be a straight white man in a PC society. They see a difference between a pussy pass and white privilege because they have white privilege but don't have a pussy pass, therefore white privilege is either not real, or not up for discussion, but a pussy pass definitely is a thing that needs to be whined about at length. Most women want real equality. I want to be responsible for my actions and thought of as a capable individual. It's not women's fault that a society that was largely shaped and decided by white men over the course of history decided that women are somehow weaker and less responsible for their actions. Look at how these old white guys spoke to Cecile Richards and Hilary Clinton during their recent congress hearings. Talking to these intelligent capable women like they are silly schoolgirls. They constantly interrupted them, and patronised them. One guy said something like "You might think we are going easy on you because you are a lady." To Richards. And it was just so ridiculous because for most of us, we aren't asking for it! Some women will still want the advantages of a pussy pass yes, just like white guys enjoy their privilege. (We talk prison stats let's not even discuss race and prison because white guys get disproportionately shorter sentences and lower conviction rates than black guys.) Having access to the pussy pass or white privilege doesn't make you bad it's just what you do with it. If your privilege means you are in a position to help people you can create opportunities for those without it. Being a woman I do have less privilege. Guys do talk over me or assume I don't know things and explain them to me like I'm 5 when I have more knowledge on the subject than they do (I work in tech). To be taken seriously I can never use my pussy pass. So unless I try to kill a man I, like most women I know, will probably never really benefit from it. Unless you class unwanted drinks being bought for me sometimes at a bar without my consent a huge benefit? I would happily trade that for the automatic respect in my industry that is extended to white men. Edit: Thanks for the gold kind person! Also to the person who said I think I'm oppressed because people talk over me, that's a tiny symptom of a larger problem and just an anecdote I used for the purpose of the comment. If you think that's the only problem women face today please think about the women who die or face jail in Ireland when they need an abortion because they aren't trusted with the rights to their own body. Think about the women who have acid thrown in their faces because jilted men believe their looks are intrinsic to their worth and painful disabling physical disfigurement is an equivalent to their bruised ego. Think about girls like Malala Yousafzai who were denied an education, and when tried to get one were shot in the head by grown men. Think about the women still subjected to virginity hymen tests with the threat of violence looming over them if they fail, which could easily happen as the hymen can break without sexual contact. Think about the 3x as many women who die per day than men at the hands of their partners. None of this is said to dismiss men's issues, I believe the men that die or suffer from domestic abuse matter just as much as the women. But to those who wish to make it a pathetic competition or pretend women have nothing to overcome, let's not derail the discussion by pretending being talked over is our biggest hurdle.