France to fine men up to €750 for wolf-whistling or making sexual comments to women

[Player Twelve]

https://www.independent.ie/world-new...-36918999.html

Men will be fined for wolf-whistling or making sexual comments towards women in France, as part of new tougher legislation to combat lecherous behaviour.

Those who break the law will face on-the-spot fines of up to €750.

France's president, Emmanuel Macron, said the law was meant to ensure "women are not afraid to be outside."

The country's minister for gender equality, Marlene Schiappa, was previously asked about the difficulty of drawing a line between harassment and flirtation.

She said: "We know very well at what point we start feeling intimidated, unsafe or harassed in the street."

Ms Schiappa had previously called for a change to consent laws, so minors under 15 who have sex with adults over 18 would be presumed not to have given their consent.

However, France's lower parliament stopped short of setting a legal age of sexual consent and instead approved a clause in which relations between an adult and a minor under 15 could be classified as rape if "the victim lacks the ability to consent".

In such cases, it would be classified a "sexual assault" and the maximum prison sentence for that is doubled to 10 years. Rape of children under 15 is punishable by 20 years in prison.

The legislation will also give underage victims of rape an additional 10 years to file complaints, up from 20 years after they turn 18 to 30 years.

Women's rights groups, who pushed for a firm age limit, reacted angrily to the vote.

[Elim Garak]

What a sexist legislature

[Sorshen]

News blog? Give us your pov as a woman.
Can women whistle at men?

[Kraenen]

What happens if this penalizes certain demographics more than others?

[Deleted]

What if I go to France and some fat chick harasses me?

[Azadina]

What happens if this penalizes certain demographics more than others?

It's probably a design feature, rather than a bug.

[Deleted]

https://www.independent.ie/world-new...-36918999.html

Men will be fined for wolf-whistling or making sexual comments towards women in France, as part of new tougher legislation to combat lecherous behaviour.

Those who break the law will face on-the-spot fines of up to €750.

France's president, Emmanuel Macron, said the law was meant to ensure "women are not afraid to be outside."

The country's minister for gender equality, Marlene Schiappa, was previously asked about the difficulty of drawing a line between harassment and flirtation.

She said: "We know very well at what point we start feeling intimidated, unsafe or harassed in the street."

Ms Schiappa had previously called for a change to consent laws, so minors under 15 who have sex with adults over 18 would be presumed not to have given their consent.

However, France's lower parliament stopped short of setting a legal age of sexual consent and instead approved a clause in which relations between an adult and a minor under 15 could be classified as rape if "the victim lacks the ability to consent".

In such cases, it would be classified a "sexual assault" and the maximum prison sentence for that is doubled to 10 years. Rape of children under 15 is punishable by 20 years in prison.

The legislation will also give underage victims of rape an additional 10 years to file complaints, up from 20 years after they turn 18 to 30 years.

Women's rights groups, who pushed for a firm age limit, reacted angrily to the vote.

Oh yeah? You don't know shit, you stupid slut. An abritarily defined feeling should never be enough to fine or prosecute anyone. If a man starts grabbing your ass, then we'll talk about fines. But whistling? Go to a cloister if you wanna be a saint, cunt.

That's directed at the bolded statement by the way, not at the OP.

[Video Games]

I was going to make a witty joke about how it would be fine with doing it to guys there, but french guys are =/

[PaterMDx]

sure, but only if we jail all women in the western world for the crimes they did, and got away with because "muh pussy" and "muh feelings, i killed my 12 children because i had a bad day im a singlemom".

women in germany literaly never go to prison, same in france, you can kill youre own child here and all dandy aslong as you have a stinky cunt.

[THEORACLE64]

What a sexist legislature

The absolutely irony.

[Logwyn]

"Those who break the law will face on-the-spot fines of up to €750.

Who will collect the fine "on the spot"? What no court date? Trial? What if its mistaken identity? What if its a woman that does it to another woman? A woman to a man? What if its someone's parrot from the fourth floor?

[THEORACLE64]

Oh yeah? You don't know shit, you stupid slut. An abritarily defined feeling should never be enough to fine or prosecute anyone. If a man starts grabbing your ass, then we'll talk about fines. But whistling? Go to a cloister if you wanna be a saint, cunt.

That's directed at the bolded statement by the way, not at the OP.

Wow. Here we have an insecure straight male calling a woman a slut.

[Coolthulhu]

I fail to see how a strong, independent woman would in any way be harmed by a wolf-whistle. Yet another proof that political correctness gone crazy results in fascism.

[Independent voter]

Yes, women can whistle at men or make rude comments, we don't mind.

[PaterMDx]

I fail to see how a strong, independent woman would in any way be harmed by a wolf-whistle. Yet another proof that political correctness gone crazy results in fascism.

sad truth is, there are no strong and indipendent women, thats some pr bs.
all women are dependet on something. MEN to be clearly.
even the singlemother wo claims to work hard gets the taxmoney as help mainly collectet from men.

They did the math, the average women who put her child/baby in kindergarden/daycare doesnt even earn enough to compensate for the new costs.
this madness needs to stop.

Women got rights dey didnt deserve, like the voting right.
If men vote for shit, they go to war, if women vote for shit guess what? men die.
women are naturaly more socialist so no wonder that in europe we got nice lefty goverments.
every person who wants to vote should serve first, women too, under the same circumstences.

[elaina]

Not sure the price tag fits the "crime" here. This makes me lol tho becsuse some euro dudes are way too fucking aggressive when it comes to smothering a woman with their advances, lol.

Comments here are pretty disgusting tho

[Kraenen]

sure, but only if we jail all women in the western world for the crimes they did, and got away with because "muh pussy" and "muh feelings, i killed my 12 children because i had a bad day im a singlemom".

women in germany literaly never go to prison, same in france, you can kill youre own child here and all dandy aslong as you have a stinky cunt.

Didn't take long to find a counter-fact http://www.scmp.com/news/world/europ...ies-freezer-10

Are you sure you're thinking straight?

[psiko74]

whats the big deal about whistling at a woman? I wouldn't mind if women whistled at me.

[Sorshen]

Women got rights dey didnt deserve, like the voting right.
If men vote for shit, they go to war, if women vote for shit guess what? men die.
women are naturaly more socialist so no wonder that in europe we got nice lefty goverments.
every person who wants to vote should serve first, women too, under the same circumstences.

Careful with that edge. Pretty sharp.

[united]

Finally. It’s above time certain men paid for being pigs.