No Slap on the Wrist for Slap on the Bottom

Reuters ^ | Wed, Jan 19, 2005

[BibChr]

The aggressor

Yikes.

Dan

[cvq3842]

oh my

this should be an interesting thread . . .

[Blood of Tyrants]

Clinto has just crossed Italy off his places to visit.

[Cyber Ninja]

How is the poor woman doing?

Has she recovered?

Has she stopped giggling yet?

Have her buttocks stopped jiggling yet?

CB^)

[A. Pole]

Italy goes down the Tube. First the slapping, next will be pinching and in the end Italian men will go to prison for wolf-whistling.

[melbell]

This title is misleading...I thought this was going to be a story about a parent who DIDN'T get in trouble for spanking their kid.

[najida]

As a woman, it is extremely disturbing a male relative pat or 'pop your bottom' and think it is funny. And have other relatives just laugh it off. Anyhow, she should have just run over him with her Lamborghini :)(and I'd hailp!)

[melbell]

"How is the poor woman doing? Has she recovered? Has she stopped giggling yet? Have her buttocks stopped jiggling yet?"

I hear she IS recovering, but she will need YEARS of emotional trauma counseling.

When I was in High School a guy smacked me on the butt so hard that I couldn't walk straight for about 5 minutes. He actually got a running start across the gymnasium and several witnesses informed me later that there was an actual "winding up" that ocurred. My reaction? I found it funny. Turns out I should have been suing him, his parents, and the entire school district, and perhaps the whole state of Georgia. Man...I could have cashed in.

[HamiltonJay]

Ahhh.. the pussification of Europe continues.

[melbell]

We also need some more information:

Did she know the man?
Does she have a tendency to go out in public with no clothes on and think that somehow every man who sees her as a sexual being is a pervert (like those women who get boob jobs and then slap men for looking at them).

These things are all important to determining guilt or innocence.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I guess he wasn't a very attractive man.

Brad Pitt never needs to worry about being prosecuted for this kind of thing. ;)

[MonaMars]

Okay, what if he slapped her on the face instead? Would you condone that? There's no difference, you know, except that some men think they should have the right to slap a woman on the ass, whether it's welcome or not.

[Question_Assumptions]

Italy has a birth rate of, what, 1.2 or 1.3? I suppose by making men scared of women, they are shooting for a sub 1 birth rate? No, I don't support sexual harassment but I also don't support outrageous punishments.

[sully777]

The aggressor, identified only as Ivan P., told the court that the victim was a relative...

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I LOST MY LUNCH RATHER ABRUPTLY.

[TontoKowalski]

A man in northern Italy was fined 300 euros ($392.5) last year for sending a flirtatious text message to a woman.

"If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"

A classic, no doubt, but it must not translate well.

[Steelerfan]

I have to agree. What the guy did was simple battery and would be a crime in the states as well. My only question, which the article doesn't answer, was did he get a greater sentence because the court found this was sexual harassment? I would have a problem with that for the same reason I have a problem with all these hate crime statutes.

[TigersEye]

Okay, what if he slapped her on the face instead? Would you condone that? There's no difference, you know,...

While that may be true in your case ... ;^)

[Larry Lucido]

Bummer!