Women's prisons and the Gender Recognition Act (2015)

Thankfully Ireland is far more progressive than the US and UK on these issues and they will be no going back here. Going back solves nothing. Its forward we need to go.

Ahh now volchista, bit rich to be flinging that in my direction when the majority of discourse around this topic has been and likely will only ever be, based around anecdotes 🤨

Suffice to say there’s a better chance of me getting my arse kicked by a 13 year old girl than there is you ending up in a cell with your cell buddy asking to borrow your safety razor to shave his bits ‘n’ bobs 😏

(all fairness I’d say the scumbag who attacked her was more surprised than she was to be attacked, which worked to her advantage more than any martial arts instruction, but now I’ve gone and tore the arse out of the joke 😒)

It wasn’t to prove that predatory males are not a danger to women and girls; just to be clear - predators, regardless of their sex are a danger to society.

But you put the condition of being a predator in there, in the same way as the other poster put the condition of superior strength in there, to make the argument that men are a threat to women. It was simply a dumb argument then, it’s a dumb argument now, because it’s just not based upon reality in any way, shape or form whatsoever. There is nothing inherent about men that makes them a threat or a danger to anyone.

For all their blather about biology and biological facts and all the rest of it, one would imagine they’d be the last people making that argument, but y’know, they want it both ways 👌

I know, because the condition of being a predator wasn’t in the original statement either, it was predicated upon the idea of our superior strength making us a threat to women. It’s why I pointed out that the inclusion of “all other things being equal” doesn’t make an untrue statement any more true than it wasn’t already, and why I used the example of Nora Wall being found guilty of rape, because “everybody knows” at the time that the nuns were a bunch of perverts.

It’s stereotyping like that, making broad generalisations about people of either sex (and not for a minute do I think women and girls are as paranoid as is often made out in these discussions), which fuel contentions like the one you’re making that a male attacker is to be more feared than a female attacker. That’s just fuelling paranoia, it doesn’t actually accomplish anything useful.

I posted the story as a joke, referencing your earlier analogies of a two year old attacking a rugby second row, and Croc Dundee having a bigger knife, I didn’t take them seriously, and I didn’t expect anyone would take that story I posted as if I was posting it seriously either.

That isn’t a serious question, you’re an engineer, you tell me what’s wrong with the question, because you’d only be guessing either basing your answer on assumptions in the absence of facts.

Me, I’m ugly enough as it is so I’ll sit this one out and you can let me know which did the most damage 😂