We’ve got to catch up with the times. Our laws do more harm than good because they’re stuck decades behind us. I am so sick of hearing about how overcrowded prisons and jails are when I know that the majority of people housed in them are causalities from “the war on drugs”. People that had some weed on them, or coke serving five years.
There are no laws for cyber bullying, the way the current law is written a clever lawyer can manipulate it to get someone who bullies a kid into killing themselves off scott-free. Recently, a girl was charged with statutory rape. She was in a consensual relationship with another girl—with a two year age difference. They started when they were 17 and 15—the 15 year-old has homophobic parents and did not want her to be dating a girl so the moment that her girlfriend turned 18 they pressed charges. Now, this 18 year-old, whose only crime was loving someone, is facing 15 years in prison and having to register as a sex offender. The law needs to catch up. This world needs to catch up.
Then I read about a transgender woman who still has her penis, but for all other intents and purposes is female was arrested. That’s fine, if she was doing something wrong arrest her—but this woman was housed with men. This woman with breasts, and full lips, and platinum hair was forced to be housed with men. Safety issue, much?
This world—this world is full of different people and different experiences and one blanket law protects no one. This world needs to catch the hell up.
