Misty Roberts, 43, faces sentences of up to 10 and seven years in prison after July 2024 sexual assault at pool party

The former mayor of a Louisiana city has been convicted of raping a 16-year-old boy during a party at her house while she was still in office.

Misty Roberts, 43, faces sentences of up to 10 and seven years in prison after a jury in the municipality of DeRidder on Tuesday found her guilty of two felonies: carnal knowledge of a juvenile – or statutory rape – as well as indecent behavior with a minor.

In October, in an unrelated case, her 40-year-old brother, Brandon Lee Roberts, pleaded guilty to raping two people: an underage girl and a young woman. He subsequently received a 42-year prison sentence.

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    Lots of signs of some internet education and naturalized perspective going on here. “Malagency” is a word I have never seen in all my years of gender studies and social science education, and all the sources I could find for it are fucking posts on Reddit from users who frequently used “left” terminology in pseudo-intellectual “men’s rights” posts and in a Redpill Archive site. In fact, every instance I’ve found of its use is from manosphere subreddits or archives of those subreddits. To anyone else who this term is new to, they used it as a shorthand for “men are blamed for everything,” which they use to launder an argument that depends on men having more agency as true (which positions agency at the individual instead of systemic level) which is, “women are actually hurt by blaming men for everything because it confirms that they have no power.” I’m not even fucking kidding, " For example, feminist theory itself may be described in terms of malagency." (https://www.reddit.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/comments/dtj972/the_framework_cause_of_mens_issues_malagency/). This is a very manipulative kind of terminology that would only work on someone who is completely unfamiliar with feminist theory at all. So, they’re targeting men who already don’t engage with gender studies and create an argument that validates some intuitive observation but misdirects that truth into a distortive construction of how “agency” exists under patriarchy.

    So, that’s incredibly specific and telling. I was going to explain a bit about how you use a lot of naturalized patriarchal values, but I can only reasonably guess that you understand what you’re doing because of how intentional this word choice is and where you clearly have gotten this knowledge.

    I am 100% certain that you do not give a single fuck about young men who are victims of sexual violence. You have even sunk to using their victimization to platform views that reproduce the conditions for that violence to continue. Vile behaviour.