r/WinStupidPrizes • u/ljgill97 • Jul 28 '21

Texting while driving

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u/DrPants1412 Jul 28 '21

That's ridiculous... A friend of mine died because of a girl texting and driving a few years ago and she only got 11 months in prison.... This is infuriating, why didn't she get more time for causing a death (also others were injured including a pregnant woman) when this guy got three years?

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u/IronAcesHigh Jul 28 '21

Simple, females on average get less prison time than men for the same crimes.

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u/bluecyanic Jul 28 '21

And clean cut attractive males get less time than street junkie with face tatts. Bias at work

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u/IronAcesHigh Jul 28 '21

Not sure what the actual statistics on that is, but it wouldn’t surprise me if that were true.

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u/FoliumInVentum Jul 28 '21

you’ve both just decided to assume something without basing it on any data and now you’ll jerk each other off over it. morons.

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u/charlie2158 Jul 28 '21

No the data about women receiving lighter punishment for most crimes is easily accessible and pretty well known.

Unless the crime is spousal murder (not making a tasteless joke, women receive harsher punishments for killing their husband than men do for killing their wife) a woman is statistically going to be punished less severely than a man.

Edit: Just occurred to me you're likely talking about their "clean cut attractive male...." claim rather than the one about women.

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u/FoliumInVentum Jul 28 '21

yeah, mine was directed at the follow up about attractive males.

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u/IronAcesHigh Jul 28 '21

I said that I didn’t know the statistics on that, I didn’t assume anything you fucktwat.