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Women in the show are fairly regularly criminals but never do time

posted a year ago by Sparky (2341)
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'I'd shoot her if she was a man but she's a hoe.' WTF? Women used to be able to get away with anything and everything if this show is any sort of representation of the old west.

[–] Keelai (31973) a year ago

It's not.

[–] liscarkat (16565) 3 months ago

In the old west, men were hanged far, far more than women. I've actually never read of a woman being hanged in that time and place, although I'm sure it must have happened, but there are nearly endless accounts of men getting the rope.