Senator seeks repeal of law against ‘slander of a woman’

[seriousstan]

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Go ahead — call state Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles a scurvy wench, a wanton strumpet, a shameless hussy.

She probably won’t like it, but she doesn’t want you to be prosecuted for it.

The Seattle Democrat is sponsoring a bill to repeal a 1909 state law that makes "slander of a woman" a crime.

Kohl-Welles, a women’s studies lecturer at the University of Washington, says the law is a relic of a time when men put women on a pedestal and denied them basic rights
http://www.dispatch.com/national-story.php?story=dispatch/2005/01/25/20050125-A7-02.html&chck=t

[Squatch]

1. Caution...slippery slope ahead.

What's next? Make it legal for strippers to come closer than 4 feet to customers?

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Law: Strippers may not come closer than four feet to any customer.

Country: United States


City: Spokane County

Citation: Source: The Spokesman Review (August 11, 2002)

[Gman]

2. Let's go back through the old freeper archives

and find out how many should be prosecuted for slandering Gregoire.

[sarcasmo]

3. Squatch you have obviously never been to a strip club, LMFAO.

If the stripper didn't come withing four feet of the customer there would be no strip clubs. As for this law, it needs to stay because it yet again is a form of hate and fear.

[Squatch]

4. Oh, I've been to my fair share...

Frankly, some of those strippers NEED to stay 4 feet away. :puke:

[seriousstan]

5. My brother and I once paid a stripper to "leave it on".

During a flight holdover in Atlanta.

[central scrutinizer]

6. sounds like she has "the vapors"

that scourge of women in earlier times.

[TahitiNut]

7. Hysterical.

:evilgrin: