Liberal gender equality can reduce to demanding equal right to be shot by guards.

Evidence

Miller’s position was that guards should be instructed to shoot at women just as they were instructed to shoot at men. She argued that parity for women and men prisoners should consist in their equal right to be fired upon by guards. … Although Miller did not succeed in preventing the inmate from participating in the commencement, in addition to her cap and gown, the prisoner was made to wear leg chains and handcuffs during the ceremony. This is indeed a bizarre example of feminist demands for equality within the prison system. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 201

Categorization

• SEED: The absurdist reductio — ‘equal right to be shot’ — is a sharp rhetorical device for essay on formal equality’s dead end.
• XREF: connects to: Formalistic equality with male prisons makes women’s prisons more repressive, not less. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 197; Civil-liberties-versus-security framing normalizes sacrificing minority rights.

Related

• Formalistic equality with male prisons makes women’s prisons more repressive, not less. (similarity 0.83)
• Men’s prisons are gendered institutions, not the norm against which women’s prisons are judged (similarity 0.81)
• Early prisons held mostly men because women lacked rights to lose (similarity 0.79)
• Male prisons functioning as the punishment norm drives women’s conditions toward greater repression. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Civil-liberties-versus-security framing normalizes sacrificing minority rights. #expands (0.65)