When I was in college, I spent the summers working for the local police department in the town I grew up in - a fairly popular beach resort.
We basically managed the jail, handling the intake, processing and release of prisoners on the overnight shift. The vast majority of prisoners were arrested and released in less than twelve hours, with the only exceptions being those who had committed serious crimes and would be sent to the county jail, or those who had an open warrant through another law enforcement agency.
In my time working there, I was “assaulted” (officially - to the point of charges being filed) the better part of ten times. Every single “perpetrator” (for lack of a better word) was female.
There is nothing - NOTHING - on planet Earth more obnoxious and entitled than a drunk woman.
Mind you, none of these “assaults” were particularly serious. I was never injured, nor was any blood ever spilled (a drunk, belligerent specimen of white trailer trash did do her level best, though, when she decided to use my inner thigh as a chew toy).
What struck me about these interactions was the complete, wanton lack of consideration or thought as to the potential consequences of their actions on the part of the women committing them. Their actions very deliberate, and almost reflexive.
In short, they were all way, WAY too comfortable putting their hands on people.
Of course, none of the charges ever amounted to anything. After the first occasion, where the charge was flatly dismissed by the presiding judge, I decided that it wasn’t worth my time to show up to court at 9 a.m. after getting off at 6 a.m. and having to be back at work at 6 p.m.
I’m not a drinker, so I can’t attest to the changes in behavior that come with heavy alcohol consumption, but I do think that there’s some level of merit to the notion of drunkenness and/or massive wealth revealing an individual’s true character. If that’s the case, some of these women may be irredeemable.
As an aside, on the subject of the police chief attempting to curb the release of these videos, there may not be anyone or anything more gynocentric than a “Girl Dad.” Granted, he may have other, unrelated motivations for this, but his statement certainly reads like someone who is more than a little afraid of his own daughter(s) appearing in one of these videos.
Of course, in the world of 2024, a DUI arrest video is hardly the most salacious thing a father has to worry about his daughter appearing in on the internet.
Janice, how could you? You know very well that those women are fragile and vulnerable girls and are made of sugar and spice and all things nice and would never do anything wrong and if they do it's never their fault and if it is they couldn't help it and if they could some man made them do it and even if no man made them do it it's all patriarchy anyway. Stop blaming women Janice; whatever it is, it's always men's fault and the channel owner is just perpetuating sexist tropes, or something.
PS: Beautifully written and nicely observed, thank you.
I have actually been watching such videos for some time, in an attempt to better understand the source and nature of the aggrieved entitlement that many young women feel these days. I agree with you, Janice, that the reaction against these videos comes entirely from the exaggerated empathy and perceptions of victimhood that we bestow uniquely on women and not on men.
Essentially, feminism is an agglomeration of double standards, all of them echoing the nursery rhyme description of little girls being made of “sugar and spice, and all things nice.”
Showing females as they actually behave, because it runs counter to that narrative, has to be defined as evil, as sexual exploitation, and as misogynistic precisely because it is the truth. The combination of hypocrisy and gynocentrism is a stinking pile of lies, distortions, and deceptions.
The fact that cowardly men are unwilling to defend the truth, and eager to show how subservient to feminist cowshit they are, is one more example of true toxic masculinity, demonstrated by assuming that everything women say about themselves and men isn’t a tissue of lies, half-truths, and delusions.
What's really interesting is that there used to be a program on one of Oprah Winfrey's cable networks called "The Bad Girls Club" that basically took a group of young ladies who were proud of such behavior put them all in a luxurious house in Hollywood, and televised the mayhem. Nobody complained that program was damaging to vulnerable women.
Police body cams were demanded by activists who believed that they would thus acquire video proof that police are racists, especially toward unarmed black males. Now that they're revealing that American police officers are some of the most patient, even-tempered and unflappable humans ever to exist, I figure it's a matter of time before police bodycams are demonized for showing the horrible behavior police endure every day.
"They show what the culture denies: that women not only do bad things, but do them with a smile on their face and an apparent lack of shame." Yep. Fani Willis started off storming into the courtroom, holding up documents shouting "lies! lies!" in great dramatic defiance. Looks like they now have her dead to rights. The question remains if she is going to pay anything like the normal penalty for lying to the court. If not, expect the bad behavior to continue.
"Showing that is not exactly a public service," I disagree, Janice. I think it's definitely a public service and meant to be. After all, in TV ads, on NetFlix, Hulu and essentially everywhere, we essentially never see a female figure who's anything but smart, clever, brave, accomplished, etc. And they are usually those things specifically in relation to male figures who are all but invariably the butt of the joke or the character whose sole purpose is to point up the woman's superiority. So yes, it's a public service to demonstrate the truth - that women have no monopoly on virtue, smarts or good behavior. Thanks as always for the fine work.
Very interesting topic, although I couldn't bear to watch the video for more than a few minutes. Excruciating observing the courtesy and forbearance of the police officer in the face of the young woman's insolent, entitled behaviour.
For reasons unknown to me, YouTube recently started recommending to me these videos where unruly women on the verge of arrest are fighting with the police. I've watched several of them hoping that they are harbingers of a new era where women can be held accountable when they behave belligerently, show contempt for law enforcement, and proclaim themselves to be above the law. It shouldn't surprise me that the discussion would turn to the victimization of these women. Of course, one of the primary reasons for body cam footage was to protect law enforcement officers from false allegations of misconduct. It's bitingly ironic that feminism would now want to claim that these women--many of whom do shout "rape" and "sexual assault" even as the video shows that they are not being raped or sexually assaulted by the officer(s)--are being victimized when their criminality, including their attempts to make false accusations, is revealed to the public. Feminism has always wanted to have its cake and eat it, too; now it seems they also want to smash it in the face of anyone who violates the fundamental rule that women must always and only be portrayed as victims.
Notice the shaming language, "vulnerable young women", "exposing their criminal behaviour will cause them harm", "sexualisation", and "voyeurism".
Humans by their very nature are voyeuristic, gossiping is a form of voyeurism and women's magazines have it to fine art.
The attempts to prohibit the publication of body cam images of females either engaged in bad or criminal behaviour are I believe aimed at protecting the perception of female innocence by keeping these displays of behaviour out of the public sphere.
This reminds me of Lorena Bobbitt - the woman who cut off her husband's penis and threw it into a garbage disposal. Initially, media coverage (e.g., The View) treated the event like a joke and displayed zero sympathy for the victim. It was only after heavy criticism that pundits admitted the severity of the crime.
To be fair, Lorena claimed that her husband was raping her and the courts found her not guilty by way of "temporary insanity." Lorena herself mentioned the "battered woman syndrome" in a later interview, though the validity of that concept is dubious at best.
When I was in college, I spent the summers working for the local police department in the town I grew up in - a fairly popular beach resort.
We basically managed the jail, handling the intake, processing and release of prisoners on the overnight shift. The vast majority of prisoners were arrested and released in less than twelve hours, with the only exceptions being those who had committed serious crimes and would be sent to the county jail, or those who had an open warrant through another law enforcement agency.
In my time working there, I was “assaulted” (officially - to the point of charges being filed) the better part of ten times. Every single “perpetrator” (for lack of a better word) was female.
There is nothing - NOTHING - on planet Earth more obnoxious and entitled than a drunk woman.
Mind you, none of these “assaults” were particularly serious. I was never injured, nor was any blood ever spilled (a drunk, belligerent specimen of white trailer trash did do her level best, though, when she decided to use my inner thigh as a chew toy).
What struck me about these interactions was the complete, wanton lack of consideration or thought as to the potential consequences of their actions on the part of the women committing them. Their actions very deliberate, and almost reflexive.
In short, they were all way, WAY too comfortable putting their hands on people.
Of course, none of the charges ever amounted to anything. After the first occasion, where the charge was flatly dismissed by the presiding judge, I decided that it wasn’t worth my time to show up to court at 9 a.m. after getting off at 6 a.m. and having to be back at work at 6 p.m.
I’m not a drinker, so I can’t attest to the changes in behavior that come with heavy alcohol consumption, but I do think that there’s some level of merit to the notion of drunkenness and/or massive wealth revealing an individual’s true character. If that’s the case, some of these women may be irredeemable.
As an aside, on the subject of the police chief attempting to curb the release of these videos, there may not be anyone or anything more gynocentric than a “Girl Dad.” Granted, he may have other, unrelated motivations for this, but his statement certainly reads like someone who is more than a little afraid of his own daughter(s) appearing in one of these videos.
Of course, in the world of 2024, a DUI arrest video is hardly the most salacious thing a father has to worry about his daughter appearing in on the internet.
Janice, how could you? You know very well that those women are fragile and vulnerable girls and are made of sugar and spice and all things nice and would never do anything wrong and if they do it's never their fault and if it is they couldn't help it and if they could some man made them do it and even if no man made them do it it's all patriarchy anyway. Stop blaming women Janice; whatever it is, it's always men's fault and the channel owner is just perpetuating sexist tropes, or something.
PS: Beautifully written and nicely observed, thank you.
I have actually been watching such videos for some time, in an attempt to better understand the source and nature of the aggrieved entitlement that many young women feel these days. I agree with you, Janice, that the reaction against these videos comes entirely from the exaggerated empathy and perceptions of victimhood that we bestow uniquely on women and not on men.
Essentially, feminism is an agglomeration of double standards, all of them echoing the nursery rhyme description of little girls being made of “sugar and spice, and all things nice.”
Showing females as they actually behave, because it runs counter to that narrative, has to be defined as evil, as sexual exploitation, and as misogynistic precisely because it is the truth. The combination of hypocrisy and gynocentrism is a stinking pile of lies, distortions, and deceptions.
The fact that cowardly men are unwilling to defend the truth, and eager to show how subservient to feminist cowshit they are, is one more example of true toxic masculinity, demonstrated by assuming that everything women say about themselves and men isn’t a tissue of lies, half-truths, and delusions.
What's really interesting is that there used to be a program on one of Oprah Winfrey's cable networks called "The Bad Girls Club" that basically took a group of young ladies who were proud of such behavior put them all in a luxurious house in Hollywood, and televised the mayhem. Nobody complained that program was damaging to vulnerable women.
Police body cams were demanded by activists who believed that they would thus acquire video proof that police are racists, especially toward unarmed black males. Now that they're revealing that American police officers are some of the most patient, even-tempered and unflappable humans ever to exist, I figure it's a matter of time before police bodycams are demonized for showing the horrible behavior police endure every day.
"They show what the culture denies: that women not only do bad things, but do them with a smile on their face and an apparent lack of shame." Yep. Fani Willis started off storming into the courtroom, holding up documents shouting "lies! lies!" in great dramatic defiance. Looks like they now have her dead to rights. The question remains if she is going to pay anything like the normal penalty for lying to the court. If not, expect the bad behavior to continue.
Thanks for exposing this Janice. The equality monster bites them yet again. Gynocentrism runs silent and it runs deep.
"Showing that is not exactly a public service," I disagree, Janice. I think it's definitely a public service and meant to be. After all, in TV ads, on NetFlix, Hulu and essentially everywhere, we essentially never see a female figure who's anything but smart, clever, brave, accomplished, etc. And they are usually those things specifically in relation to male figures who are all but invariably the butt of the joke or the character whose sole purpose is to point up the woman's superiority. So yes, it's a public service to demonstrate the truth - that women have no monopoly on virtue, smarts or good behavior. Thanks as always for the fine work.
Very interesting topic, although I couldn't bear to watch the video for more than a few minutes. Excruciating observing the courtesy and forbearance of the police officer in the face of the young woman's insolent, entitled behaviour.
For reasons unknown to me, YouTube recently started recommending to me these videos where unruly women on the verge of arrest are fighting with the police. I've watched several of them hoping that they are harbingers of a new era where women can be held accountable when they behave belligerently, show contempt for law enforcement, and proclaim themselves to be above the law. It shouldn't surprise me that the discussion would turn to the victimization of these women. Of course, one of the primary reasons for body cam footage was to protect law enforcement officers from false allegations of misconduct. It's bitingly ironic that feminism would now want to claim that these women--many of whom do shout "rape" and "sexual assault" even as the video shows that they are not being raped or sexually assaulted by the officer(s)--are being victimized when their criminality, including their attempts to make false accusations, is revealed to the public. Feminism has always wanted to have its cake and eat it, too; now it seems they also want to smash it in the face of anyone who violates the fundamental rule that women must always and only be portrayed as victims.
Notice the shaming language, "vulnerable young women", "exposing their criminal behaviour will cause them harm", "sexualisation", and "voyeurism".
Humans by their very nature are voyeuristic, gossiping is a form of voyeurism and women's magazines have it to fine art.
The attempts to prohibit the publication of body cam images of females either engaged in bad or criminal behaviour are I believe aimed at protecting the perception of female innocence by keeping these displays of behaviour out of the public sphere.
Once again, Dr. Fiamengo’s scalpel of lucid prose eviscerates the folded lie of feminism.
The idea that many women can and do behave terribly threatens the narrative and its false premises.
They don't have issue leaking mugshots of men arrested to the media to shame and compell plea agreement not in their interest.
This reminds me of Lorena Bobbitt - the woman who cut off her husband's penis and threw it into a garbage disposal. Initially, media coverage (e.g., The View) treated the event like a joke and displayed zero sympathy for the victim. It was only after heavy criticism that pundits admitted the severity of the crime.
To be fair, Lorena claimed that her husband was raping her and the courts found her not guilty by way of "temporary insanity." Lorena herself mentioned the "battered woman syndrome" in a later interview, though the validity of that concept is dubious at best.
From child to adulthood, my observation of womens violence is something that lodges in my brain !