A man has been convicted of sexism in a public place for the first time under a new law in Belgium.

A court in Brussels fined him €3,000 for insulting a police officer because of her gender, Le Soir reported.

It comes as France prepares to create an offence of street harassment, described as “sexist and sexual outrage”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...42706.html

PARIS — Cat-callers, wolf-whistlers and harassers of the world, beware.

Marlène Schiappa, France’s junior minister for gender equality, is on a mission to hunt you down, by making unwanted public advances to women a punishable offense.

In the midst of a growing backlash against harassers, Schiappa’s initiative aims to put France on the global vanguard of anti-harassment legislation, by defining a practice that’s rarely encoded in law.

It’s an ambitious, if thorny, undertaking that’s part of a wider push by President Emmanuel Macron and the 35-year-old former activist for working moms to combat violence against women not just in France, but across Europe.

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-g...e-offense/

(03-08-2018 07:56 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  A man has been convicted of sexism in a public place for the first time under a new law in Belgium.

A court in Brussels fined him €3,000 for insulting a police officer because of her gender, Le Soir reported.

It comes as France prepares to create an offence of street harassment, described as “sexist and sexual outrage”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...42706.html

PARIS — Cat-callers, wolf-whistlers and harassers of the world, beware.

Marlène Schiappa, France’s junior minister for gender equality, is on a mission to hunt you down, by making unwanted public advances to women a punishable offense.

In the midst of a growing backlash against harassers, Schiappa’s initiative aims to put France on the global vanguard of anti-harassment legislation, by defining a practice that’s rarely encoded in law.

It’s an ambitious, if thorny, undertaking that’s part of a wider push by President Emmanuel Macron and the 35-year-old former activist for working moms to combat violence against women not just in France, but across Europe.

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-g...e-offense/

Just another reason why Europe is going to sh*t. Free speech = gone. Thought crimes codified. Check.

Feminists around the world should be appalled by this.

I am starting to think that the Muslims might have it right. Women stay off of the streets, burqua, need permission to go places.

€3,000...

To put this in perspective, full-time employees receives a gross average salary of 3,300 euros per month. That's the same as a $2,500 fine in the US.

...wondering if he called her the "C" word?? Seems that's the word that would be quickest to get labeled as "insulting".....

(03-08-2018 11:30 AM)Crebman Wrote:  ...wondering if he called her the "C" word?? Seems that's the word that would be quickest to get labeled as "insulting".....

Conservative?

(03-08-2018 11:39 AM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 11:30 AM)Crebman Wrote:  ...wondering if he called her the "C" word?? Seems that's the word that would be quickest to get labeled as "insulting".....

Conservative?

Yeah, went old school with this one.

(03-08-2018 11:39 AM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 11:30 AM)Crebman Wrote:  ...wondering if he called her the "C" word?? Seems that's the word that would be quickest to get labeled as "insulting".....

Conservative?

THAT ^^^deserves 3. LOL