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Sexism you have personally experienced or have heard of? *READ POST 1*

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  • #10112
    iptba
    Registered Users Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119619804#Comment_119619804

    Watchdog: Prisoners sleeping on mattresses on floors 'wedged next to unpartitioned toilets'

    “The size and design of many of these cells meant that mattresses had to be wedged at an angle next to the in-cell lavatories. At the time of the inspection, an average of some 38 men per day were being kept in these conditions, often with minimal out-of-cell time."
    https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41429905.html



  • #10113
    cms88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭cms88


    Interesting to see how it's now also mens fault that female Olympic boxes can't fight each other.



  • #10114
    iptba
    Registered Users Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122455709#Comment_122455709

    Yes. It’s a common pattern: Happened to see this in a discussion yesterday:

    If men have problems, it’s down to men or the patriarchy (i.e. men);

    If women have problems, it’s down to men or the patriarchy (i.e. men).



  • #10115
    iptba
    Registered Users Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭iptba


    Happened to see this today where someone had called for abolition of women’s prisons. Different people will have different opinions on what punishments offenders should face but the issue is the different treatment male and female offenders face, and want people to face in the future, for the same crime.


    https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/article/2024/aug/04/me-we-need-more-funding-and-more-research


    Abolish all prisons

    I appreciated Eva Wiseman’s column about the urgent need for prison abolition for the roughly 3,600 women in prison in the UK (“Women’s prisons have served their time. They should be abolished”).

    However, I did wonder why she stopped short of calling for the abolition of men’s prisons. Although there are more violent offenders in men’s prisons than in women’s, the majority of men are there for non-violent offences. There were 92 suicides in prisons in the UK in the year to September 2023, of which 91 were men. This makes the suicide rate in men’s prisons nearly four times higher than men in the general population. Men are also cut off from their children, and children from their fathers. Only 38% of men were offered a phone call to their family on their first night in prison, compared with 73% of women.

    During my medical training, I shadowed the healthcare teams in women’s and men’s prisons. I was shocked by the terrible living conditions, very high rates of mental ill health and pervasive violence and substance misuse. Women and men in prison deserve comfort, safety and the opportunity to build a better life. Let’s end prisons and build better systems for all.
    Dr Charlie Wilkinson
    Hotwells, Bristol



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