The sex conundrum

The American legal system, the staple for which our rights as citizens of the free world are protected, upheld, and established. Our legal system, a beacon if you will for objectionism, equality, and decency which is to be guarenteed to every citizen whom resides within our country. However, is our legal system really fair in itself? We've had bouts of corruption throughout history, we've had injustices done that haven't been ailed by the court system. One such injustice I bring to you is a sexual conundrum, in our current society does the court system favour the female?

In a case of sexual assault involving man and woman, is the man already assumed guilty? Granted statistics, that women are more likely to be sexually assaulted than her male counterpart, but statistics cannot be applied to each individual case, to do so is both naive and denies the entire court preceeding the objectionism it solely requires. So in this scenario what makes us predisposed to believe the female over the male? Is it the statistics, is it the viability, or perhaps the system tends to believe the female solely because she is female?

Now I bring up the issue of child molestation and statutory rape, when a male is indicted and charged with indecent acts upon a minor the male is looking toward a lengthy jail sentence, aswell as public scrutiny. Now we look a woman who has sex with a minor, usually the sentence for this woman is no less than a slap on the wrist, and the victim is lauded as some type of hero for being so "Lucky" now do we call the female child "Lucky" no we give her sympathy which the majority of people will feel angered. As for the woman she will have the public scrutiny, but she will serve less jail time than her male counterpart.

In civil cases involving child support or the welfare of the child, usually the woman is given priority over the man despite that the man may be at a greater advantage financially, emotionally, or physically in certain cases the woman is usually prefered. Now I ask women are given abortion rights in most states they solely can choose to eliminate the fetus if they deem so, so why shouldn't the man have a choice in the situation? Why can't the man choose not to pay child support if he did not want the child? This was a actual court case, I'm not aware of the turn out at this point but I will see as to what the ruling is.

So I ask are we predisposed to favour women in our legal system? Are men's choices within our society limited in terms of children, sex, and legalities? Is the man considered as a second class citizen just as women we're before The Women's Suffrage Act? Is it possible that by progressing foward in terms of sexual equality, we've forgotten our impartiality?