The next time people conflate the patriarchy with “men” I am going to bring up the vile pustule that is Judge Jacqueline Hatch to prove that you don’t need a dick to be a dick who punishes women for the crime of not being men.
Recently, a former police officer named Robb Gary Evans was found guilty of sexual assault. Evans, in an attempt to win the award for biggest shithead in Arizona (he’s up against some stiff competition in that state, I’ll tell you what), “drove drunk to a bar, showed his badge at the door to get in sans cover, walked up to a friend of a friend and put his hand up her skirt so he could “run his fingers” across her genitals without consent. When bouncers threw him out, Evans told them he was a cop and could have them arrested”.
It is totally illegal to grab another person’s genitals without their consent. As a cop, Robb Gary Evans should have known that. Of course he should have also known that driving drunk and abusing his authority was illegal too. Regardless of his knowledge that groping an unwilling victim is sexual assault, the asshat did it anyway.
However, after Robb Gary Evans was found guilty of sexual assault, Judge Jacqueline Hatch decided to give him NO JAIL TIME. Why? Because 1) he is such such a nice guy and 2) the victim was in a bar with a vagina so what did the big ol’ whore expect?
I am not fucking kidding you.
Hatch actually said to the woman who was assaulted: “If you wouldn’t have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you,” Hatch told the victim. “I hope you look at what you’ve been through and try to take something positive out of it. You learned a lesson about friendship and you learned a lesson about vulnerability.” Hatch said that the victim was not to blame in the case, but that all women must be vigilant against becoming victims. “When you blame others, you give up your power to change,” Hatch said that her mother used to say.
Okay, so the victim was not to blame but if she hadn’t been in the bar with a vagina she wouldn’t have been vulnerable and she should be more vigilant and she shouldn’t blame others. Huh. That really, REALLY looks like victim blaming to me.
I know when I go to a bar with friends I am always expecting a drunken cop to bully his way into the building and feel my vagina. That’s why I leave my vagina at home. Or at least wear a burka so I won’t arouse his lust (which would be all my fault, not his) and a chastity belt to help him fight off his base urges by preventing his access to my dirty lady box. Better yet, I just stay home, where women belong after sundown. Only skanks and sluts leave the house and go into public spaces so they are totally asking for it if someone paws at their crotch. That is just common sense, people.
After everyone on earth found out what a thunderdouche Judge Hatch had been and a petition to oust her from office got 10,000 signatures, Judge Hatch issued an apology to the victim. I am sure it was completely sincere and written after realizing she was a misogynist (yes, women can be misogynists too) twatwaffle who had verbally assaulted the victim, as opposed to an attempt to get her ass out of the hellfire the public was raining down on her head.
I am also sure that the monkeys flying out of my butt all agree with me.
Just Oh. My. God. Nothing else is coming, my brain has shut down in shock. Regular programming will continue in a while. Oh, my, God!
That thudding noise is me banging my head against the wall.
OMG thank you so much! I am so glad you wrote about this (I did believe you when you said you would) The reason I wanted you to write this so bad is that Arizona cops have a bad rap. I was followed home from school by a cop. Wait, let me clarify.School=University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Home=Phoenix, AZ. Yup, a cop followed me two hours “to make sure I got home safe” my dad got his badge number and lit into him and his boss. However, because he never physically touched me, just pulled me over several times during my trip home nothing came of it. Each time he wanted to know what my plans were for the weekend. At the time I thought my parents overreacted until it clicked. What if I had been going to my apartment in Tucson where I lived alone instead of my parents home…. I’m sure this judge would say it was my fault because no lady should drive home at night!
Ack!!
WTF? It’s her fault because she dared go out? Someone give this woman a slap. What is wrong with people?? She shouldn’t be a judge, she doesn’t even know how to deal with her job *fumes*
We’re kindred spirits! I recently posted a status update about female misogynists, and I even called them “scabrous pustules”!
Well this just gets my panties in a bunch but I better stay home with that because if anyone notices IT WILL BE MY FAULT! So. This butt-swipe issued an apology (sincere my arse) will she get canned? How do we do that? This nonsense makes me want to vomit!
Or we could all go out wearing These and see who has the last laugh?
uh. Warning: x
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LOL!!!
tonight i have to go to an event at work. after dark. uh oh.
Leave your vagina at home under your husband’s protection. We all know how “loose” second grade teachers are.
See, I’d probably be in jail for contempt of court. ‘Cause about the time she said that to me I’d have tied into her right there. I have the right to go anywhere, anytime, without being harassed. Women like that just piss me off.
Sorry, your burqa will definitely provoke his ire, and wearing it will make it your fault if you get beaten by a racist.
It’s such a fucking load of shit. I’m pretty much done being angry though. Doesn’t help. So I’m just using my disgust with it to write. Makes my writing far less interesting though.
I wish I could say I’m surprised but nothing like this surprises me anymore. Infuriates me, yes.