So in 40 years’ time, will the French socialists be boasting that it’s thanks to their brave and heroic initiative in 2013 that the wearing of trousers by women was finally decriminalised?
They may be in, but they certainly can’t punctuate a sentence. You need a full-stop there, sweethearts, not a comma.
This article, published by BBC News, puts into firm perspective the Labour Party’s ridiculous boast that it is liberal and progressive because 40 years ago it repealed the law against sodomy.
That law had been a dead letter for around a hundred years already, if not more.
Pretty much like the law in France which banned women from wearing trousers, which was only repealed on Monday.
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BBC News, 4 February 2013
PARIS WOMEN FINALLY ALLOWED TO WEAR TROUSERS
The French government has overturned a 200-year-old ban on women wearing trousers.
The Minister of Women’s Rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, said that the ban was incompatible with modern French values and laws.
She said the law, imposed on November 17, 1800, had in effect already been rescinded because of incompatibility.
The move to formally repeal the law followed a parliamentary question asked last year.
According to the law, women needed to have the permission of local police if they wanted to “dress like a man” and wear trousers.
Though it has been ignored for decades, formally it remained on the statute books.
Ms Vallaud-Belkacem said the original law had been intended to prevent women doing certain jobs.
“This order was aimed first of all at limiting the access of women to certain offices or occupations by preventing them from dressing in the manner of men,” she said.
It was modified in 1892 and 1909 to allow women to wear trousers if they were “holding a bicycle handlebar or the reins of a horse”.
During the French Revolution, Parisian women had requested the right to wear trousers and working-class revolutionaries became known as “sans-culottes” for wearing trousers instead of the silk-knee breeches preferred by the bourgeoisie.
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Knowing how low they can stoop, yes.
I wonder if wringer type washing machines are legal in France ?
Le Manglet.
The Labour Party celebrated the 40-year anniversary of the repealing of this law, and at the same time tells us to forget about the past.
Selective memory at its worst.
Maybe Joseph Muscat would consider abolishing an old law forbidding citizens to walk into Valletta barefoot. He could then claim credit for abolishing poverty and raising standards of living.
Doesn’t socialist France have bigger poissons to sautee right now?
Have I been hallucinating or what?
Yesterday evening, on One Radio’s news bulletin at 6:15 (usually it starts at 5:45 but due to a live transmission of a political event, the news started off 30 minutes later than the normal time), it was announced that three businessmen’s assets were frozen.
[Daphne – I’ve deleted the rest of the comment. It is illegal to post information on those garnishee orders, or rather the names of the individuals involved. That is why the media immediately used the story and then equally immediately removed it. Telephone calls from the police, I imagine. This is not done to protect the individuals. It is done to protect the police investigation. I know exactly who they are and what is happening, and have done for the last 10 days or so (because I worked it out for myself by doing a bit of research on the MFSA company registry website, so you’re wrong on that score. ]
Pah! The French. The people who drive on the right, yet still have an archaic (but still very much enforced) regulation that requires that one gives way to traffic coming from the RIGHT (as is the logical practice in countries that drive on the LEFT, like Malta and the UK).
So instead of repealing this regulation, instead they litter the country with “You do not have priority” signs at roundabouts and suchlike where giving way to traffic on the right i.e. those entering the roundabout would cause havoc.
Josephmuscat.com is a francophile? Or a politician?
Neither of the two