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Just a casual “pound-me-in-the-ass prison” top comment on HN (no this type of prison isn’t civilized or the mark of a mature criminal justice system or society).

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Totally agree. But tbf you look at modern media and these things are still perpetuated. Just look at violence done on camera and off camera in TV shows and to whom. Which jokes are made and about whom - many don't even notice because it's so acceptable to treat a class, gender, etc a certain way that it doesn't even cross anybody's mind.

To be actually fair, the notion that OP's comment was referring to only men is entirely left to the reader to decide.

Women can be SA'd in prison by other prisoners, and additionally have to contend with the petty humiliations from guards taking unnecessary sexual turns that they wouldn't with men.

The specific turn of phrase used is an idiom stemming from a pop culture reference. I doubt it's meant in a gendered way.

Nor should a description of prison SA be considered an endorsement.

Yes, fair, but also keep in mind that 93% of American prisoners are men and 99% of rapists are men.

The problem is decidedly a male one just because of the demographics.

Obviously a terrible thing either way.

There are sexual predators that do pray on men and the sadistic types probably find their way to prison guards.

You have to figure out how to make Americans stop feeling schadenfreude. They love the idea that these thugs/criminals in prison are being subjected to such conditions. The cruelty is the point.

We simply love to inflict pain and suffering. This is why we circumcise, why we ear crop, tail dock, create animals, put people in solitary, etc.

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