• MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    Would this be a viable defense for a woman who was receiving clearly unwanted advances from a man and retaliated by assaulting or killing him? No? Then it sounds like we’re applying laws differently based on sex/gender. Either mitigate this for women or don’t permit it for men, preferably the second one.

    If a gay man hits on you and you’re a straight man, take it as a compliment and be upfront that you’re flattered but not interested in men. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      Would this be a viable defense for a woman who was receiving clearly unwanted advances from a man

      YMMV. If the woman is white and the man is black, probably. The other way around? I wouldn’t bank on it.

      If a gay man hits on you and you’re a straight man, take it as a compliment

      As a legal defense, the most nefarious thing about it is that you’ll often have two assailants giving testimony that the now-dead victim can’t refute. So it very well could be the “straight” man aggressing on an out-gay man, the gay man rebuffing the advance, and the “straight” man plus friend killing him in reprisal. If you look into the rash of night club shootings during the '10s, it was not uncommon for closeted or sexually repressed individuals to be involved, after feeling the need to prove their straightness by killing their peers.

      Also very common for abortion clinic bombers and snipers to come out of communities that convince young men they’re being robbed of future spouses and children by insidious far-left feminist institutions.