If one story wasn't enough to get me spitting mad today, then two really did the trick
It appears that now not only do we have to applaud our assaulter but we have to pay for not doing so.
A teenage girl who was dropped from her high school's cheerleading squad after refusing to chant the name of a basketball player who had sexually assaulted her must pay compensation of $45,000 (£27,300) after losing a legal challenge against the decision.
Another cracking decision by SCOTUS
The United States Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a review of the case brought by the woman
So SCOTUS has decided corporations are people, but women are not.
Then this side of the pond, we have another group of legal lunatics
Late on Thursday the court upheld a constitutional court decision to annul the jail sentence of two 19-year-old men found guilty of gang raping a 16-year-old near Rome. A lower court had ruled that jail was the only sentencing option, but the supreme court disagreed, saying judges could apply alternatives.
Both cases decided by the highest courts in the repective land; in SCOTUS' case running away from any logical reasoning really do demote sexual assault and rape to a slap on the wrist sentence.
Perhaps when serial rapists are sentenced to community service we will have to form a fucking cheer-leading squad to motivate them for their upcoming tasks?
Is it any wonder
60% of rapes/sexual assaults are not reported to the police, according to a statistical average of the past 5 years.2 Those rapists, of course, never spend a day in prison. Factoring in unreported rapes, only about 6% of rapists ever serve a day in jail.
It is no wonder that I am so often enraged beyond words. The endangering of women and men goes on.
All this with the current events where those who have protected the guilty have been applauded and the rich and famous walk free, these two events resonate even more.