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[–]MarkTwainiac 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, the judge's treatment of these thugs illustrates that instead of being marginalized, oppressed and subjected to constant discrimination and violence, TIMs are given a free pass to behave as badly as they want and then are allowed to get off scot free whilst other men feel sorry for them & offer excuses for their inexcusably violent, knee-jerk behavior.

The "extremely offensive transphobic and racial abuse" these TIMs experienced, while undoubtedly unpleasant, pales next to the sort of abuse girls and women get all the time simply for being female and having certain racial, ethnic & other physical or cultural characteristics. The insulting remarks made by the teenager to these men seems "extremely offensive" to the judge & the violent yobs the words were directed at coz they are all men who are accustomed to being top dog and are used to being able to move about the world without constantly - or ever -being accosted, harassed or insulted.