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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 373993" data-attributes="member: 23">The series’ views towards social attitudes proves interesting. My discomfort with Judy’s attitudes towards, say, couples who live together “without the benefit of marriage” (I have to remind myself she’s approaching this from a legal point of view) is balanced by how equally she treats genders when it comes to matters like unpaid child support (many women seem shocked when the reasonable question of why they haven’t financially contributed to the child who lives with their father or other family members is put to them, which really gets one thinking about imbalances in societal roles). Something I’ve noticed about all series to some degree, but Tribunal Justice in particular, is there isn’t an acquiescence towards what seem almost universally unspoken rules when it comes to trending social issues. As an example, in Episode 49 of Tribunal Justice, which I watched just last night, the judges gave an incredibly hard time to a woman who did what so many on this series do: weaponise gender politics to gain sympathy by fabricating sexual harassment which never occurred. Patricia DiMango likewise shut someone down for playing the &quot;Mom&quot; card to gain sympathy, and Tanya Acker has pulled someone up for unfounded accusations of racism. An episode I watched last night saw a woman who had got a delivery driver sacked for running over her dog when her own video evidence showed her own negligence was the reason (adding insult to injury, the woman who&#039;d maliciously cost a woman her job was the person bringing the case in an attempt to further punish her and assassinate her character). None of the judges bought into the manipulatively emotive pleas, and they were actually sorry that the defendant didn&#039;t have a counter-suit for defamation. In another arena, a rebuttal of these accusations might well go unheard, but not here. It&#039;s incredibly refreshing to see how effectively these allegations are stamped on in 2023.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 373993, member: 23"] The series’ views towards social attitudes proves interesting. My discomfort with Judy’s attitudes towards, say, couples who live together “without the benefit of marriage” (I have to remind myself she’s approaching this from a legal point of view) is balanced by how equally she treats genders when it comes to matters like unpaid child support (many women seem shocked when the reasonable question of why they haven’t financially contributed to the child who lives with their father or other family members is put to them, which really gets one thinking about imbalances in societal roles). Something I’ve noticed about all series to some degree, but [I]Tribunal Justice[/I] in particular, is there isn’t an acquiescence towards what seem almost universally unspoken rules when it comes to trending social issues. As an example, in Episode 49 of [I]Tribunal Justice[/I], which I watched just last night, the judges gave an incredibly hard time to a woman who did what so many on this series do: weaponise gender politics to gain sympathy by fabricating sexual harassment which never occurred. Patricia DiMango likewise shut someone down for playing the "Mom" card to gain sympathy, and Tanya Acker has pulled someone up for unfounded accusations of racism. An episode I watched last night saw a woman who had got a delivery driver sacked for running over her dog when her own video evidence showed her own negligence was the reason (adding insult to injury, the woman who'd maliciously cost a woman her job was the person bringing the case in an attempt to further punish her and assassinate her character). None of the judges bought into the manipulatively emotive pleas, and they were actually sorry that the defendant didn't have a counter-suit for defamation. In another arena, a rebuttal of these accusations might well go unheard, but not here. It's incredibly refreshing to see how effectively these allegations are stamped on in 2023. [/QUOTE]

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