Jail Time for French Women who Berate Husbands

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By Carey Roberts

Record cold temperatures are beginning to take their toll on average
citizens around the world. In bone-chilled France, frustrated housewives
have taken to venting their spleens at their husbands - and for good reason.

For decades, effete French men have indulged themselves with aerosol hair
spray for their over-groomed hairpieces, contributing, as we all know, to
the thinning of the ozone layer and melting of the polar ice caps.

Now the debonair men are taking the heat.

Thankfully, the epidemic of shrieking wives has not escaped the attention of
the ever-vigilant French Parliament, which is now considering a ban on the
practice. The law would apply to both married and cohabiting couples.

Support reaches to the highest political levels. Announcing the proposed law
last week, French premier Francois Fillon explained, "The creation of this
offence will allow us to deal with the most insidious situations -
situations that leave no visible scars, but which leave victims torn up
inside."

Repeat perpetrators of "psychological violence" would be subject to
electronic tagging, Fillon warned.

Under the new politeness regime, any use of power and control tactics will
be subject to state intervention. Garden-variety nagging will be passé.
Honey-do lists will be illégal. And women will think twice before inquiring
about amorous liaisons, since false allegations of infidelity will also be
barred.

Soon-to-be-illegal put-downs also include "Vous avez le cervau d'un sandwich
au fromage" (You have the brain of a cheese sandwich) and "T'as une tête a
faire sauter les plaques d'egouts" (You've got a face that would blow off
manhole covers).

Many were delighted with the prospect of re-engineering the prickly French
personality. The French gendarme, weary from tracking down elusive tax
cheats and al-Qaeda operatives, was buoyed by the news. And middle-aged men
mired in stale marriages now have a respectable way out.

The new proposal has its skeptics, of course.

Psychologist Anne Giraud worries that "Squabbling couples will allege all
kinds of things about each other, but they won't necessarily be true."
Psychiatrist Marie-France Hirigoyen is likewise "cautious" because the law
could be easily misused.

Sociologist Piere Bonnet frets, "Next they will be making rudeness a crime,
and the police and courts will be overrun with work." Many wonder how a
procureur, lacking hard evidence of abuse, would prosecute an accused
scofflaw.

And some recall when actress Brigitte Bardot was fined $6,000 for violating
the French hate-crimes law when she made impolitic statements about the
looming influence of radical Islam.

Thanks to the new law, millions of French women will end up spending time
behind bars. But it will be for their own good. And once we put an end to
the spate of psychological violence, we can move on to other pressing
problems like raised eyebrows, annoying grimaces, and unsympathetic stares.



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