The French are fighting sexual harassment

[Quartz]

Paris man jailed for three months for slapping woman’s bottom

@The Guardian

A man who slapped a woman’s bottom on a bus near Paris has been jailed for three months and, in a first under a new law against catcalling, also fined for lewd remarks about her physique.

The man, inebriated when he boarded the rush-hour bus, smacked the 21-year-old on the buttocks and made an insulting comment about her breasts, before a squabble with the bus driver, who jammed the doors shut while police were alerted.

Good work by all concerned.

[Procrustus]

@Quartz

Paris man jailed for three months for slapping woman’s bottom

Good work by all concerned.

If I slapped a stranger on a bus here in Seattle, I expect I’d get a similar sentence. I’m not sure why you (and the Guardian) find this particularly newsworthy.

[Gatopescado]

Didn’t they invent it?

[Flyer]

@Procrustus

If I slapped a stranger on a bus here in Seattle, I expect I’d get a similar sentence. I’m not sure why you (and the Guardian) find this particularly newsworthy.

You may wish to do some research into the stereotypes regarding the French.

[Nava]

@Procrustus

If I slapped a stranger on a bus here in Seattle, I expect I’d get a similar sentence. I’m not sure why you (and the Guardian) find this particularly newsworthy.

Because until very recently, it wouldn’t have been the case; also because, as the quote in the OP indicates, it’s the first case of someone breaking the brand-new shiny law against catcalls. Welcome to the 21st century, we’ve been in it for a while now.

[AK84]

@Procrustus

If I slapped a stranger on a bus here in Seattle, I expect I’d get a similar sentence. I’m not sure why you (and the Guardian) find this particularly newsworthy.

Do you not know the nationality of the OP and the place where the *Guardian *is published.