In his opinion to Romer v. Evans, a landmark gay rights case from 1996, former Justice Kennedy wrote, “A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws.” (His Supreme Court opinion invalidated Colorado’s Amendment 2, which overturned local ordinances protecting gay, lesbian, and bisexual people from discrimination.) With that sentence, he referred back to Justice Harlan’s dissent in Pleessy v. Ferguson, who stated that the Constitution neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
Well, the Constitution may not, but people tolerate an even deeper classification amongst human beings.
To wit, that men are human and women, human animals for men to use.
Thus, our estrangement from the law is only a surface reflection of this stark division in human and civic worth (just as the often execrable treatment of people who cannot or will not confirm to the “ideal” of the male-supremacist version of heterosexuality is also a reflection of that devaluation).
To support my statement, in no particular order
- Law enforcement, which is overwhelmingly male, just as those who commit most violent crimes, but particularly sexual and gender based crimes, serves as a gate keeper for women seeking justice.
- Police officers in particular have a higher-than-average incidence of committing violent crimes and intimate terrorism (“domestic” violence) against the women in their lives, yet this is widely tolerated, as are their crimes against women citizens.
- We have hundreds of thousands of unprocessed rape kits sitting in storage lockers across the nation, and no one knows how many have simply been destroyed.
- Nullification of the laws against rape is widespread, by both judges and juries.
- Laws against violent crime simply do not apply when those crimes are committed against women and girls, especially when committed by their intimates and family members.
- The Supreme Court decision of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, in which a woman sued the town and its police force for refusing to enforce a restraining order against her husband, allowing him to murder her three children, established that no individual has a right to enforcement of the laws. Like all the cases cited as precedent, Castle Rock law enforcement acted in egregiously bad faith with the women citizens who fund them with their taxes.
- Not to speak of two vast industries, prostitution and pornography, which depend upon the degradation and destitution of women for their very existence, while serving as the mechanism for further degrading women and rendering them destitute through the consequences of crimes committed against them. Yes “progressives” defend these industries.
- Currently, Alabama leads the nation in legally defining women as vessels for future children. An Alabama jurisdiction also charged Marshae Jones, unarmed and five months pregnant, for felony manslaughter when she miscarried after being gut-shot , because “she started it.”
- While Florida, which has a stand-your-ground law, saw fit to jail Marissa Alexander for 3 years after she fired a warning shot, harming no one, at the man who had previously tortured her and was then threatening to murder her. Florida authorities also jailed Courtney Irby, who was in imminent danger of being murdered by her husband, and are charging her with armed robbery for… giving his weapons to the police, which he was required to do by court order, but had not.
It Is quite clear that the self-evident and inalienable rights of men to the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness do not extend to women. Indeed, you might think a woman has no rights a man of her class is obliged to respect.
I’ll be considering the whys and the hows in later diaries.