Against Carceral Feminism

[malthaussen]

1. Pass a law and it goes away.

But what are you gonna do? Without a pretty comprehensive overhaul of our entire social and cultural matrix, damage control of one kind or another is the best that can be hoped for. And activists, politicians, whatever -- need to be perceived as "doing something." So throw a couple of laws at it, increase penalties, introduce punitive measures like minimum sentencing and damn the unintended consequences. (On another front, Marissa Alexander has discovered just how damaging the unintended consequences can be)

And then we don't actually enforce half the laws we pass anyway. I tell ya, there are times I think the human race needs to be erased and we start over with otters or something.

-- Mal