I imagine you must feel frightened and outraged on behalf of your cousin at the mere possibility that violent, predatory men such as these could end up incarcerated alongside her and her fellow inmates. Have you conveyed your views on this to the authorities in Washington State?
No, I am not frightened or outraged. What she did to her victim is just as bad and maybe worse than what those dudes might do to her. Indeed, I would say that she might deserve it.
I appreciate your honest, and prompt, reply. I realized, even as I wrote my response to your comment, that I might be making unjustified assumptions about your thoughts, feelings, and perspective on the issue addressed in this post. Having said that, and setting aside the particular question of what you believe your cousin may deserve as punishment for her offense(s), which I am not asking you to describe (unless for some reason you want to), do you have a view on the larger question raised in this post of whether, as a matter of policy or practice, men, ones who claim to identify as women, should be allowed to serve their sentences in women's prisons? If you don't want to answer, I respect that. It may not be a fair question to ask you. But the simple fact that you posted a comment here makes me curious to know what your response might be to this post's call to action to try to stop implementation of this policy.
To make things perfectly clear, I agree with you 100% on the larger issue. These creeps do not belong in any womenтАЩs prison or any other female-exclusive environment.
I was only answering your specific question about my feelings regarding my cousin. Her mother, a first cousin to me, passed away a few years ago. One night this girl and her boyfriend, both of whom already had records of violent crime, got into the house and proceeded to beat her motherтАЩs widower husband on the head with some kind of hammer, leaving holes in his skull.
Then they tied him up in the bathroom and cut the phone lines. Took his bank cards and two vehicles, and headed into the city.
He managed to get free using a pair of mustache scissors and walked over to a neighborтАЩs house dripping copious amounts of blood.
Cops rounded up the pair quickly, after which boyfriend sent my cuz a note in jail saying that тАЬIt would have been better if they had killed Bob.тАЭ
She got something like 640 months, and he got a similar sentence in one of WashingtonтАЩs menтАЩs prisons. SheтАЩll be an old bat when she finally gets out. Both are trying to get their sentences reduced on the plea that the jail personnel shouldnтАЩt have read the note (!).
I have zero sympathy for her. But I agree 100% with your post.
She played a pivotal role in my life, as someone who got me back into photography after I had given it up for good. That story is in my Substack: https://kenbarber.substack.com/p/bridezilla
My cousin is in that facility.
I imagine you must feel frightened and outraged on behalf of your cousin at the mere possibility that violent, predatory men such as these could end up incarcerated alongside her and her fellow inmates. Have you conveyed your views on this to the authorities in Washington State?
No, I am not frightened or outraged. What she did to her victim is just as bad and maybe worse than what those dudes might do to her. Indeed, I would say that she might deserve it.
I appreciate your honest, and prompt, reply. I realized, even as I wrote my response to your comment, that I might be making unjustified assumptions about your thoughts, feelings, and perspective on the issue addressed in this post. Having said that, and setting aside the particular question of what you believe your cousin may deserve as punishment for her offense(s), which I am not asking you to describe (unless for some reason you want to), do you have a view on the larger question raised in this post of whether, as a matter of policy or practice, men, ones who claim to identify as women, should be allowed to serve their sentences in women's prisons? If you don't want to answer, I respect that. It may not be a fair question to ask you. But the simple fact that you posted a comment here makes me curious to know what your response might be to this post's call to action to try to stop implementation of this policy.
To make things perfectly clear, I agree with you 100% on the larger issue. These creeps do not belong in any womenтАЩs prison or any other female-exclusive environment.
I was only answering your specific question about my feelings regarding my cousin. Her mother, a first cousin to me, passed away a few years ago. One night this girl and her boyfriend, both of whom already had records of violent crime, got into the house and proceeded to beat her motherтАЩs widower husband on the head with some kind of hammer, leaving holes in his skull.
Then they tied him up in the bathroom and cut the phone lines. Took his bank cards and two vehicles, and headed into the city.
He managed to get free using a pair of mustache scissors and walked over to a neighborтАЩs house dripping copious amounts of blood.
Cops rounded up the pair quickly, after which boyfriend sent my cuz a note in jail saying that тАЬIt would have been better if they had killed Bob.тАЭ
She got something like 640 months, and he got a similar sentence in one of WashingtonтАЩs menтАЩs prisons. SheтАЩll be an old bat when she finally gets out. Both are trying to get their sentences reduced on the plea that the jail personnel shouldnтАЩt have read the note (!).
I have zero sympathy for her. But I agree 100% with your post.
She played a pivotal role in my life, as someone who got me back into photography after I had given it up for good. That story is in my Substack: https://kenbarber.substack.com/p/bridezilla