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Cops' lives (in a particularly uncharitable interpretation) revolve around reinforcing their own masculinity by winning fights and exerting dominance. Using tha
by superuser2 12y ago
Cops' lives (in a particularly uncharitable interpretation) revolve around reinforcing their own masculinity by winning fights and exerting dominance. Using that to protect damsels in distress from creepy male others/sexual predators is a highly masculinity-reinforcing, fatherly/brotherly and desirable thing to do.
An effiminate man (using the again uncharitable notion that nerds with desk jobs are not manly in the eyes of police officers) walking into the station and asking for protection from other effiminate men is more likely to be seen as a pathetic whiner.
- tomp 12y agoAFAIK, they pretty much ignore women's complaints as well (at least judging from reporting about e.g. Anita Sarkeesian).
- belorn 12y agoThe police department handed the information from Anita Sarkeesian to the FBI for investigation. The FBI has an ongoing investigation, have approached IGDA and together with bullying experts are working on the complaints. I think very few cases has had such large impact as the one reported by Anita Sarkeesian.
- cbd1984 12y agoI love how this explanation is fully feminist right up to the point it utterly ignores the existence of female police officers.
- superuser2 12y agoOn average, 18% of police officers in a given department are female. It is more likely (5-1 odds) that the officer on your case will be male. Of course you could also get a female cop, just as you could get a male cop who takes the complaint seriously. Parent asked why the victim's gender matters; this is a reason why it is not entirely irrelevant.