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Old Law Shielding a Woman's Virtue Faces an Updating
NY TImes ^
| January 26, 2005
| SARAH KERSHAW
Posted on 01/25/2005 8:11:20 PM PST by Former Military Chick
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Florida has struck down a law forbidding unmarried women from parachuting on Sundays. Michigan has done away with a law making it illegal to swear in front of women and children. Texas women no longer face 12 months in prison for adjusting their stockings in public. And the ladies of Maine can now legally tickle a man under the chin with a feather duster.
I am sorry but this just gives me the giggles.
To: Former Military Chick
Now, Senate Bill 5148, introduced this month by Senator Jeanne E. Kohl-Welles, a Democrat, would repeal the law, which makes it a misdemeanor to slander any woman older than 12 - other than prostitutes - by uttering "any false or defamatory words or language which shall injure or impair the reputation of any such female for virtue or chastity or which shall expose her to hatred, contempt or ridicule." Uh oh... Stephen the Shark (soundpolitics.com) had better watch what he says about the governor-select, lest he expose her to hatred, contempt, or ridicule.
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posted on
01/25/2005 8:15:29 PM PST
by
supercat
(To call the Constitution a 'living document' is to call a moth-infested overcoat a 'living garment'.)
To: Former Military Chick
But here in Washington, in 2005, it is still illegal, under a 1909 law, to bring a woman's virtue into question publicly, to call her a hussy or a strumpet.
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posted on
01/25/2005 8:16:38 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
To: Former Military Chick
These lawmakers get their knickers in a knot over these petty laws, but don't hesitate to heap more useless laws and regulations on the public. Idiots.
To: Former Military Chick
But here in Washington, in 2005, it is still illegal, under a 1909 law, to bring a woman's virtue into question publicly, to call her a hussy or a strumpet. I would like to invite all Washington Freepers to engage in a bit of civil disobedience.
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posted on
01/25/2005 8:19:12 PM PST
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: Former Military Chick
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posted on
01/25/2005 8:20:43 PM PST
by
ChewedGum
(aka King of Fools)
To: Former Military Chick
I am sorry but this just gives me the giggles. You're not being tickled with a feather duster, are you?
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posted on
01/25/2005 8:23:58 PM PST
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: Former Military Chick
Seattle women have no virtue to insult.
To: Former Military Chick
Let that harlot legislator try what she will!
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posted on
01/25/2005 8:26:53 PM PST
by
jocon307
(Ann Coulter was right)
To: jocon307
it is still illegal, under a 1909 law, to bring a woman's virtue into question publicly, to call her a hussy or a strumpet. \Strum"pet\, n. [OE. strumpet, strompet; cf. OF. stupe debauchery, F. stupe, L. stuprare, stupratum, to debauch, stuprum debauchery, Gael. & Ir. striopach a prostitute.] A prostitute; a harlot. --Shak.
A good word. They should repeal that law, so we can call 'em as we see 'em.
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posted on
01/25/2005 8:31:31 PM PST
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: Former Military Chick
There once was a law in Seattle
Against treating women like cattle
But now it's no more
You can treat them like whores
One more 'victory' in our cultural battle!
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posted on
01/25/2005 8:38:46 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(The Left believes in everything about the First Amendment....except what it actually says!)
To: SC Swamp Fox
Darn, threw my last one out, have one on hand to send?
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posted on
01/25/2005 8:42:12 PM PST
by
Former Military Chick
(For News All Military check out: http://earlybirdnews.blogspot.com/2004/12/todays-early-bird-news.ht)
To: Former Military Chick
some of those laws like the "parachuting law" were passed as joke laws to show how little politicians pay attention to what they are doing. There was even an organization that had this as their life's work.
In FL they even sneaked an "illegal to whistle underwater" law.
So they have to be careful when they draw comparisons without knowing the REAL history of the law.
BTW FL still makes it illegal to impune the chastity of a woman.
To: jocon307
"Let that harlot legislator try what she will!"
Somehow (must be a Freudian slip) it brings to memory an expression which one scoundrel (Vladimir Lenin) once used regarding another (Leon Trotsky): "political prostitute". Now, why does hillary come to mind?
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posted on
01/25/2005 8:57:48 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: supercat
I wouldn't worry about uttering words that expose the Governor-select to hatred, contempt, or ridicule. They're also TRUE, which would be the ultimate defense. Just like calling a slut a slut wouldn't be a crime under current Washington law.
Case dismissed.
By the way, I wonder how Sen. Kohl-Welles feels about contractual set-asides for women-owned business. By her own feminist logic, she should be opposed, since those laws assume women are too weak to compete in the business world.
To: GSlob
with respect to Lenin, Trotsky, or "political prostitute"? ;)
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posted on
01/25/2005 9:29:17 PM PST
by
castle05
(gun control means consistently hitting where you're aiming)
To: castle05
"Political prostitute", of course. Others are just historical peculiarities.
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posted on
01/26/2005 4:37:06 AM PST
by
GSlob
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To: FrankWild
I'd like to pass a law forcing women to wear their hair long, at least as long as the shoulders. No chop jobs. Can't disagree with that one.
Gum
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posted on
01/26/2005 8:29:26 AM PST
by
ChewedGum
(aka King of Fools)
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