Sometimes, it’s hard being a woman in a patriarchal society.

You have to go through life knowing that the world devalues your experiences and vulnerabilities while prioritizing men’s.

You have to put up with men being routinely excused for irresponsible or even criminal behavior while women are held to impossibly high standards. This is especially true in the workplace, and most especially when it comes to sexual behavior.

In essence, you have to go through life knowing that men have it much easier than you, that the world is built “just for them,” and that if any justice ever occurs in your favor it will be noteworthy not for how prevalent that justice is, but for the surprising fact that it happened at all.

And then, there’s statutory rape. Headlines from this article from ABC News in California:

Valley teacher surprised by jail time for sex with student

Surely, given that our patriarchal society privileges men over women (which we – grateful for our enlightened modern indoctrination education – accept unquestioningly), the teacher in question is not a woman.

But she is.

A tearful apology from a former teacher couldn’t convince a Fresno County judge to let her stay free after admitting to sex with a student.

Megan Denman, 30, pleaded guilty to six felony charges just a few months after her arrest. But she wasn’t expecting to serve any jail time.

Only four months for six felony counts of rape. Not one. Not two. Six. What 30 year-old man would get only four months for that many counts of statutory rape and – like Megan Denman – not have to register as a sex offender?

And why was she surprised?

Denman came to court knowing other female teachers in her situation had avoided prison or even jail time.

That belief was based in part on the sentence given to former Washington Union teacher Nadia Diaz less than two months ago for her sexual relationship with a 15-year-old. Diaz got probation and no jail time.

I don’t think I need to ask anyone how a man would have been treated (except a Feminist, of course, who would just blame it all on men anyway).

She was emotional throughout the hearing, and the worst of it came when she found out she wouldn’t be as lucky as her peers.

Yes, the “worst of it” was that she was punished at all. Note her sense of entitlement. Is it open season on underage boys or something? Apparently Megan Denman thinks so. Aren’t we usually lectured by Feminists that it is men who feel not only entitled to sex, but also entitled to rape?

Megan Denman’s already wet eyes filled with tears as a deputy put her in handcuffs for a long trip to the Fresno County jail — a trip her attorney says came as a shock.

“Was Megan ready to go to jail today?” an Action News reporter asked her attorney, Roger Nuttall. “I don’t think so, mainly because I didn’t think she would go to jail today,” Nuttall replied.

The attorney himself – the man in the legal trenches day in and day out – didn’t think she would go to jail despite being convicted of a series of felony criminal behavior. And that, folks, should tell us a lot about which sex truly is the privileged class. Basically, when it comes to getting off easy in the justice system, you can’t get any better than being a white woman.

In [Megan] Denman’s case, she faced as long as 26 years in prison for a lengthy sexual relationship with a student.

Note: the maximum was 26 years, but she only got four months and didn’t have to register as a sex offender. It like she got the least possible sentence she could have been given.

The former social sciences teacher was 28 when it all started. The victim was 16.

By the way, the age of consent in California is 18.

Prosecutor Lara Clinton argued that a sentence of probation would prove a double standard for female teachers.

“I think if we were talking about a 28-year-old man having sex with a 16-year-old student who is a child, his student, that would be pretty repulsive,” she said.

Give the woman (Lara) credit where it is due.

But the victim didn’t want Denman prosecuted, psychiatrists said she’s extremely unlikely to repeat the crime, and she gave the judge an emotional apology.

Let me get this straight: she’s considered extremely unlikely to repeat the crime despite the fact that it occurred six times (that we know of) over a prolonged period of two years? I’d really like to know the names of these psychiatrists.

“I’m very sorry for ther disappointment I’ve cause co-workers, students, myself, my husband,” she [Megan Denman] said. “Every day I live with the guilt and hate that I have for what I’ve done.”

Is she sorry for the guilt that she feels, or the guilt that is thrown at her?

The judge’s final ruling means she’ll carry that guilt to jail.

“Carry that guilt to jail.” Gee, that sounds pretty heavy. Until, of course, we remember that she is going to jail for just four months. And she’ll probably get out earlier than that due to “good behavior.”

Denman is scheduled to get out of jail on April 30. She won’t be able to work as a teacher again, but the judge also ordered she won’t have to register as a sex offender.

So she won’t have to register as a sex offender (as any man would have) and consequently live under a bridge, notify everyone around her whenever she moves close to then, and cut off 75% of her employment prospects. Note: she can still get a job in education, just not as a teacher.

Yes, she’ll “carry that guilt to jail,” but unlike a man that’s where she’ll leave it.

What a joke, folks. A slap on the wrist for a serial rapist solely on the basis of her sex. Any man would have the book thrown at him, be locked away for half his life, and have whatever life he had left obliterated by being registered as a sex offender.

Men and boys are being hit from both sides. Not only do those who advocate traditional notions of gender excuse irresponsible and criminal female behavior, decades of Feminist propaganda have also primed much of the world to simply not give a damn about things like this through the repetition of the lie that men and boys “have it all.”

We’ve got a good reason to be angry, folks. Many reasons, in fact.

And this is one of them.