If you want to see me devolve into a hysterical, screaming weirdo, all you have to do is ask me about opposite-sex prison guards.
The thought of male corrections officers (or admin staff) in women’s prisons— or female guards in men’s prisons—is so enraging, so outrageous, that I start making insane character assumptions about people who shrug at the concept.
“If a woman can pass the fitness test, the male prison should hire her as a guard,” they say.
To which I must refrain from asking, “Why do you hate women and want them dead?”
I don’t even think male janitors should be allowed in a woman’s prison. Nor female secretaries in men’s prisons. Ever.
Like I said, it’s not exactly a balanced position.
My views on the police force are similarly restrictive, but without the histrionics. It’s mere practicality.
Women are physically inferior to men. And even boys. We cannot beat men in a foot race. We cannot safely disarm a man with a knife.
We cannot do much of anything against an aggressive ma…