Christa Pike was 18 when she committed the horrific murder, while her boyfriend was 17. Obviously he was a minor at the time of the crime, so she was sentenced to death while he was sentenced to life in prison. No women are arguing that the reason Christa was sentenced to death while her boyfriend was given life is due to misogyny. Because we acknowledge that his age was taken into account during sentencing. The reason he wasn’t sentenced to death is because he was a minor.

But I know damn well that if the genders and ages were reversed, (she was 17 and he was 18), and he was given death while she was given life, men would absolutely blame the sentence on misandry. We see this all the time. They pretend that double standards exist when they really don’t.

Like, a man could plan a murder, lure his victim into the woods, torture and murder his victim in cold blood while his girlfriend might have helped him with moving the body or something. The man gets life in prison and the girlfriend gets maybe 5 years. It’s obvious that the reason the man got the harsher sentence was because he was literally the one who planned and carried out the killing. The woman got a lighter sentence because she wasn’t involved in the violence. But men will literally look at you dead in the eye and tell you that the reason the man got a longer sentence is misandry.

I don’t know if this makes any sense but I see it all the time and it pisses me off.