Male Privilege (Insert Current Year)

Female suffrage inexorably leads to bigger and more coercive government. For confirmation, look no further than the whimsically named Operation Mother's Day in Jefferson County, Arkansas. Fifteen people with outstanding warrants for failure to pay child support were arrested.

Twelve of those arrested were black. You might say that the arrests had a disparate impact on black men, since they comprise 80% of those arrested. I guess #BlackLivesMatter is still too busy anguishing about Mike Brown to care about this over-incarceration.

Media sources helpfully published the names and pictures of those arrested, and the amount each one owes. One person was arrested for falling behind $2,726. Twenty-seven hundred dollars. That is fucking absurd.

That one kind of looks like a woman. So 14 out of the 15 arrested are men. That's some male privilege!

Family court should not have the authority to hold men in contempt of their court orders, and thus to issue warrants for their arrests. If they can't get the money voluntarily, garnish their wages. If they don't have any wages to garnish, leave them alone. There is a generous social safety net for single mothers.

Arresting them is an abuse of power. Why do we arrest people? One reason is to punish them. Another reason is to deter other people from breaking the law. Still another reason is to keep dangerous people separated from the rest of us.

There can be other punishments for failing to pay child support, like loss of visitation. The evidence that these arrests cause people to catch up is slim and anecdotal.

If someone loses their job because they are locked up, doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Everybody should pay their child support, but I can think of one reason why someone wouldn't want to, even if they could. If your ex-wife brings another man into the house with your children, but doesn't marry him, you still have to pay her. I'd tell the bitch to go pound sand.

We have lots of ways to shame people who don't pay their child support. We publish their names, we post their mug-shots, we video tape their perp walks, we call them "deadbeat dads." We chastise them for "not keeping it in their pants," but we never shame women who can't keep their panties on.

Maybe we should. The phrase "entitlement cunt" has a certain truthy ring to it.

Male privilege, 1944