Your point doesn't stand. Worse, you don't seem to understand how American society is constructed, or the history of that society, or the history or role of its legal and political systems re: discrimination. Or even the difference between state actors and private actors. Or get simple issues re: pay such as the expectation gap. Which, since you mention it, doesn't account for the offer gap, or dismal managerial representation, or...yadda yadda yadda. That's a problem, given the extreme nature of your stance.
I pointed out a few very narrow examples of where the law favors women, but where it's doing less and less of that. And we'll pretend those few areas didn't come about in response to women bearing specific risks/harms post-divorce and whatnot. Of course, women are less violent than men (generally; it's changing a bit; too lazy to source stats here) so less jail time follows from the nature of their offenses.
The fact is this: that women (and blacks, and black women) are still so discriminated against so many years after the Reconstruction amendments is precisely because the legal system does not favor them. It was not designed to favor them. It will never favor them. Not fundamentally, not aggressively. Affirmative action is a shitty stopgap measure that survives judicial review by a hair, and a shitton of states don't participate at all. It amounts to a token of a token of a token of reparations for centuries of misconduct. Misconduct which is still ongoing. Narrow example: it's no freak coincidence that between 2010 and 2015 the top ten police departments paid OVER A BILLION DOLLARS to settle misconduct claims--black people are learning to challenge police in court, and are winning huge civil settlements for blatant police misconduct. You'd think that would piss off white people enough to demand police reform, lol.
Areas in which our legal system has been amended (contorted, really) to accommodate an anti-caste view of race and gender-base subjugation feel shaky for precisely that reason. It's like trying to build a tepee on top of a skyscraper. It wasn't designed for that sort of thing. And as you'd expect, this runs contrary to what's more or less been the prevailing philosophy on the Supreme Court for decades. TL;DR: you got it backwards.
For the record, the statement that affirmative action is the only remaining form of "institutionalized racism"--while every other form of that racism are "isolated incidents"--is fucking hilarious. You need to jump out of that news feed and spend some time in the real world with your eyes open. Like, actually open. Not just open to search for confirmation bias.
The funniest thing, actually, is that you white dudes still don't get it. Poor black people and women getting more of the pie isn't enough to trigger the zero-sum game that you feverishly imagine.
Your ACTUAL zero-sum contest is with white elites who enact (grudgingly) and then point out token programs like affirmative action to infuriate you. Meanwhile, they withholding resources and investment and gut our manufacturing industry for decade after decade in order to turn a quick buck. All while calling you cracker and doing you dirty. And you turn up pissed at white elites, right? Nope! You get played and turnt up against black people and women. LOL.
It's been like 150 years since they they started doing this shit (more really), and you fuckers still haven't wised up. It's getting ridiculous. The Romneys and Trumps of the world are your enemy. Not poor-assed black dudes and women who are out there living hand to mouth.
That's a lot of fucking words for Sherdog. My bad.
