Tawana Brawley ITEM Black 15-year-old Tawana Brawiey daimed she’d been gang-raped by white racists, stuffed into a plastic garbage bag, and covered with excrement5 But a doctor testified that there was no evidence of either rape or assault And a woman testified that she had seen Tawana dimb into the plastic garbage bag of her […]

Neither men nor women are exempt from killing loved ones. The differ­ence is in what happens to them when they do. Twelve distinct female-only defenses allow a woman who commits a premeditated murder to have the charges dropped or significantly reduced. No man has successfully used any of these defenses in similar circumstances. Nor do […]

Community property without community — responsibility ultimately boomer­angs against women. When ignorance allows her to share a fortune but not share a jail cell, then ignorance pays in the short run. But in the long run, it creates the most ubiquitous form of female "learned helplessness" — financial learned helplessness Thus if she has doubts […]

When Tammy Faye Bakker divorced Jim, community property laws guaran teed Tammy Faye rights to half of the profits of their ministry. Why? Marriage makes a couple legal equals. How a couple divides roles is private business, but community property laws were supposed to make equal rights and responsibilities for the couple s profits or […]

I tell women what to wear, how to dress, how to make up their hair. They must have a great deal of sex appeal to the men on the jury — and to the judge, too. But at the same time she can’t antagonize the women on the jury by being too flashy-looking. If she […]

While it is understandable how a feminist-sponsored commission on sex bias would be a commission with sex bias, similar bias is also common in reports from male-dominated government agencies such as the U. S. Depart­ment of Justice. For example: The U. S. Department of Justice reports that men have longer sentences than women.35 They rationalize […]

When the state gives the female the first option to plea bargain and receives extra evidence about a man in exchange for repressing evidence about a woman, this leads the press to report the evidence against the man, which leads the public to reinforce its stereotype of man-as-criminal, woman-as — innocent. Thus the initial belief […]

Women felons go to a former school a few miles east of the state capitol. The men’s institutions are prisons, plain and hard. They offer cells, guards, cell block gangs. . . The women’s institution feels like the school it was built to be, and its staff encourages reform and rehabilitation. Attorney David D. Butler,23 […]

(The executioner! found it difficult to reconcile himself to the task of destroying the life of a member of the sex which his whole upbring­ing had taught him was deserving of respect and tenderness as the giver of life.1′ ITEM Twenty-three Americans have been executed and later found inno­cent. All twenty-three were men.’6 ITEM Approximately […]

In plea bargaining with a married couple, often we say, “Well, let’s get the man." We re satisfied with getting the husband to plead guilty and dropping the charges against the woman. Of course, then he has a criminal record, she doesn’t. If they both repeat the crime, he can "legitimately" receive a longer sentence. […]