What gives? It's usually the homely looking ones who protest wolf calls. Of course, now that France has imported rapers, it may pay to be homely.
Posted on 09/21/2017 10:23:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Wolf-whistling and repeatedly asking for a woman’s telephone number could soon be made illegal as part of a French government crackdown on the longtime scourge of street harassment.
French and foreign women alike will all have stories of being pestered or harassed as they walked down a street in France. One survey that made headlines revealed that 100 percent of all female respondents said they have experienced being harassed on public transport, with half saying they alter their clothes to avoid it.
Now France’s secretary of state for gender equality, Marlène Schiappa, is attempting to address the issue head on and wants to make street harassment a crime. “Women that walk down the street aren’t at everyone’s disposal and their bodies aren’t public property,” Schiappa said.
What exactly constitutes harassment will have to be thrashed out, but it could include the age-old bad habit of wolf-whistling. A working party was tasked on Tuesday to start drawing up legislation that will make it a criminal offense to harass someone in a public place, specifically with the country’s macho culture in mind. The aim is to create a legal definition of street harassment and decide what the penalty will be for offenders. […]
Schiappa added: “We will create a new offense, to define its parameters, the evidence and the sanction — a spoken warning and then a fine.” …
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So, a secretary of state for gender equality?
So, does this mean this feminist prize is going to push for French women to become combat soldiers and fight on the frontlines?
Ooops feminists supposedly want gender equality, but funny how they still don’t care about men being treated like a disposable gender. (more homelessness, more deaths, more suicides, etc)
This is so stupid it is painful to even contemplate. But just think about it for a moment...Liberal Progressives of France will do this but not act to curb illegal immigrant crime.
They going to crack down om m*slims raping women too?
What gives? It's usually the homely looking ones who protest wolf calls. Of course, now that France has imported rapers, it may pay to be homely.
harnessed?
Ha, that’s my spellchecker.
Harrassed/harnessed all true.
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