{"id":35127,"date":"2016-07-02T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35127"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:33:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:33:59","slug":"qotd-they-always-get-their-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/07\/02\/qotd-they-always-get-their-man\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: They always get their man"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s this notion, more and more, that if you’re male, you must be guilty.<\/p>\n

Guilty…of what?<\/p>\n

Not to worry — they’ll find something.<\/p>\n

If you’re a man, some seemingly innocuous thing you’ve done is surely criminal. Not because it is. Because they need something you’ve done to be criminal and because they’ll just call you guilty first and work it out later. Um, maybe.<\/p>\n

Maybe this sounds like paranoid craziness, but, from the news stories I read — and not just those of the hurt feelz crowd on college campuses — it increasingly seems like what it’s like to be male, if you’re one of the unlucky ones.<\/p>\n

Amy Alkon, “We’re Looking A Little Too Hard For Criminals, AKA Men”, Advice Goddess<\/em><\/a>, 2016-06-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s this notion, more and more, that if you’re male, you must be guilty. Guilty…of what? Not to worry — they’ll find something. If you’re a man, some seemingly innocuous thing you’ve done is surely criminal. Not because it is. Because they need something you’ve done to be criminal and because they’ll just call you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,41],"tags":[355,417],"class_list":["post-35127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-media","category-quotations","tag-prejudice","tag-victimlesscrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-98z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35128,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127\/revisions\/35128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}