Sunday, March 11, 2012

Orrite, darlin'?

It's almost traditional - an attractive female walks past a building site and gets admiring calls and whistles from the lads.  Well, perhaps not for much longer, because we've signed up to a European convention which requires us to outlaw any behaviour which "[violates] the dignity of a person" and what the lads are doing would almost certainly potentially fall into that category.  What is not clear is whether it is down to the female concerned to decide whether she feels her dignity has been violated (I know some girls, and indeed ladies of more mature years, who find such attention somewhat flattering) or whether - as I suspect - it will be open to anyone around to decide that their dignity has been violated and to initiate a criminal prosecution.  It's turning into a very intolerant world, isn't it? 

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