# Woman Denied French Citizenship for Refusing Handshake

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**Created:** [April 20, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-denied-french-citizenship-for-refusing-handshake/812826 "2018-04-20T22:28:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-denied-french-citizenship-for-refusing-handshake/812826/140 "2018-05-01T14:38:40Z")

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> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#):
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> I’ve been in the business world a good four decades and in every context polite men waited women to extend their hand first. The impolite ones who tried to intimidate women into touching them well, they just gave us advance warning of who we needed to be on guard about.

I’d still like you to explain how, if touching is worse than rape, how all of a sudden it becomes ok simply because you are a homeless person begging for money?

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