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This is typically how the legal system responds to increases in specific kinds of crimes, they adjust the system to more efficiently prosecute that crime.
If you have a better idea for how to combat disproportionate crime statistics without targeting that specific kind of crime, from a legal standpoint, I'm sure the world would love to hear it.
How does making it a hate crime to kill men because of their gender take away from it being a hate crime to kill women because of their gender?
Do you think killing a white person because of their race shouldn't be a hate crime?
You're viewing law and order as symmetrical, it's not like that. Nothing is like that, broadly as a global civilization we respond to imbalanced factors in order to preserve balance the best we can.
If an neighborhood is using more power than other neighborhoods, the power grid will be adjusted to compensate.
If you drink more juice than milk and you don't want to run out of juice, you adjust your buying habits to buy more juice.
While some people probably have killed white people for their race, the problem here isn't symmetrical, more white people have killed people of color for their race in most places than the reverse because of a complex historical context. The law, and all of society broadly, implements laws or other systems to balance imbalances. Hate crimes have been typically perpetuated by one group versus another. Gender-related crimes VASTLY dominate in one direction than the other, and I'm still not hearing a better solution for this fact from the standpoint of law and order.
Does this idea make you feel bad? Seriously, I'm wondering why this is being challenged without an offer of a better idea or solution.
Your offer of a better solution is to charge the act of killing someone because of who they are or what they believe should be a hate crime.
If more men commit hate crimes against women than women committing hate crimes against men, then there will be more men charged with hate crimes than women.
I am not offering anything, I am explaining the reasoning for this law and laws like it, which a lot of people in this post seem to be having a hard time with.
I read this like, five times and and I don't know what you're saying.
And? This is indeed how cause and effect work. Unfortunately temporal anomalies haven't been discovered that can change how things lead to other things.
My point was that anyone who harms someone else based on who they are or what they believe (so long as those beliefs aren't hurting others) should be charged with a hate crime.
The legal system isn't a zero sum game. There's no reason to treat the crimes differently.
Plus, if you want to talk about disparities in the legal system, woman already, on average, get less time than men for the same crimes.
I am sure you don't even see how unhinged and revealing this line is on a topic like this.
But I hope you figure out why you're so miserable feeling that laws attempting to help people suffering imbalanced levels of violence make you have to play this game. I highly recommend learning the emotion/rumination cycle and how it impacts your health. You and a lot of lonely guys in this godforsaken post. I feel bad for women and men alike every time I subject myself to a moronic conversation like this.
My days of talking it out with incel-adjacent, self-insecure men who haven't learned how to stop ruminating are kind of past me. I've done my time, I've helped my share of young dipshits become men who don't feel insecure and persecuted knowing there are special considerations being made for anyone who isn't them. I hope you meet someone and feel better about yourself.
You're making some wildly baseless assumptions about me, buddy.
I'm not the one saying that men being killed for their gender is a less serious crime than it happening to a woman.
Also, you're literally advocating for women to be sentenced less harshly for the exact same crime.
There's certainly a sexist here, but it's definitely not me. You don't combat inequality with more inequality.