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Gender Based Discrimination

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  • #2
    NameMe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭NameMe


    WOW, lack of replies tells me a lot

    Thank you OP for being fair-minded, shame others tend to choose their battles based less on the rights and wrongs but more on the gender affected


  • #3
    Warfi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Warfi


    NameMe wrote: »
    shame others tend to choose their battles based less on the rights and wrongs but more on the gender affected

    this thread is also being discussed in After Hours. Personally I think it's a shame that you're using this boys plight to prove your belief that women are hypocritcal


  • #4
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    That is the result of stop gap legislation which was brought in, in 2006, it was said it would never be used in a case like this. It being brought forward now must be so to get it changed. It is wrong and it does need to be addressed it was ill tought out stop gap legislation after the challenge on the lack of plea of mistaking a girls age in case of statutory rape.


  • #5
    Maple
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 16,186 ✭✭✭✭Maple


    NameMe wrote: »
    WOW, lack of replies tells me a lot

    Thank you OP for being fair-minded, shame others tend to choose their battles based less on the rights and wrongs but more on the gender affected
    I fail to see how the lack of response to a thread tells you anything.

    Keep it civil.

    Maple.


  • #6
    Kooli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Kooli


    maple wrote: »
    I fail to see how the lack of response to a thread tells you anything.

    .

    I agree. I had a look at the OP a few hours ago and didn't feel compelled to respond. I felt the issue was being covered pretty well in AH, and I didn't have anything to add. I'm sure virtually everyone wants the boy to win his case, but not just for reasons of anti-discrimination.

    I think looking at this only through the lens of 'discrimination' doesn't make a lot of sense, unless you believe both youths involved should be charged.

    If you believe neither should be charged, then it's the fact that consensual sex between teenagers is a crime is the issue here. Of course the gender discrimination is also a bit bonkers, but it's secondary.


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