Jealous Husbands
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this is one bizarre law. kinda interesting.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-02-26T133129Z_01_N23288551_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEXICO-HUSBANDS.xml
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican men who display extreme jealousy or avoid sex with their wives could be tried in court and punished under a new law, the special prosecutor for crimes against women told a local newspaper on Friday.
Men who phone their wives every half hour to check up on them, constantly suspect them of infidelity or try to control the way they dress are committing the crime of jealousy, special prosecutor Alicia Elena Perez Duarte told Excelsior newspaper.
Those who stop talking to their wives, avoid sex or try to convince suspicious spouses they are "crazy" even if they are caught red-handed having an affair, are guilty of indifference, she said.
Men found guilty of jealousy or indifference could face up to five years in prison, the newspaper said. Mexico's individual states will determine the punishments, it said.
The progressive new law was passed this month to protect women from domestic violence.
In Mexico, about 75 percent of all murdered women are killed by their husbands, Perez Duarte said.
"If we do not stop this from the beginning, it turns into beatings, and the beatings turn into more beatings and rape, until it gets out of hand, and whoops, she died," she told the paper.
Perez Duarte said the law would be a weapon that women could employ to level the playing field with abusive men.
"Men ought not to feel discriminated against," she told Excelsior.
Perez Duarte said indifference, jealousy or lack of love were crimes against women just as much as physical violence.
"Jealousy produces a particular type of stress in the person that comes up against it," she said. "It is exactly the same. They are wounds, psychological scars identical to physical scars."
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-02-26T133129Z_01_N23288551_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEXICO-HUSBANDS.xml
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican men who display extreme jealousy or avoid sex with their wives could be tried in court and punished under a new law, the special prosecutor for crimes against women told a local newspaper on Friday.
Men who phone their wives every half hour to check up on them, constantly suspect them of infidelity or try to control the way they dress are committing the crime of jealousy, special prosecutor Alicia Elena Perez Duarte told Excelsior newspaper.
Those who stop talking to their wives, avoid sex or try to convince suspicious spouses they are "crazy" even if they are caught red-handed having an affair, are guilty of indifference, she said.
Men found guilty of jealousy or indifference could face up to five years in prison, the newspaper said. Mexico's individual states will determine the punishments, it said.
The progressive new law was passed this month to protect women from domestic violence.
In Mexico, about 75 percent of all murdered women are killed by their husbands, Perez Duarte said.
"If we do not stop this from the beginning, it turns into beatings, and the beatings turn into more beatings and rape, until it gets out of hand, and whoops, she died," she told the paper.
Perez Duarte said the law would be a weapon that women could employ to level the playing field with abusive men.
"Men ought not to feel discriminated against," she told Excelsior.
Perez Duarte said indifference, jealousy or lack of love were crimes against women just as much as physical violence.
"Jealousy produces a particular type of stress in the person that comes up against it," she said. "It is exactly the same. They are wounds, psychological scars identical to physical scars."
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Is this for real?
ummm, it's mexico, so im guessing it'd be the 3 scariest words in the spanish language actually
as far as i can tell this is totally serious.
Hehe...would that be "nuevo ley progresiva"???
Yikes. If indifference ever becomes a crime, I'm in for a world of hurt.
i can't wait to prosecute you
they need to pass this law in the US.....WOOHOO.....all the mens are goin' to prison!
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*proceeds to forward in e-mail to husband*
scary.....but hysterical!
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i just need to say
Due mostly to years of oppression by men. Women broke out and seized the power. It created a thirst that grew. If you think about the 'system' in North America now... consider it like a pendulum, but not just one, many. The only ways women are being oppressed may concern wages, but I'm skeptical of that. The rest is just general discrimination which both genders and all races are victims of in our diverse societies. We may need more progress in terms of careers and politics, but I think we are well on our way to equality. But what else is happening on more of a social level, Chivalry is still a normal demand of women. Men are often still expected to court the woman, buy her objects of affection, create the romantic scene for love, things like Valentines Day is a good example of that. And on the other hand women disregard the negatives of the historical female gender model. It's a take-take-take policy. The legal system caters to women far more than men on issues of Domestic Violence and Child Custody, even though studies consistently show that women are more violent in 11 catagories. Men are accused of "objectifying" women, some 8 million women access internet porn every day! Our society is messed up and it encourages laws like this. Whenever a 'group' speaks-up and fights for their freedom and obtains it, which is a good thing, it goes too far, everyone else is left walking on egg shells and mines.
Real equality should be looked at from a central view. If this law was at all equal it would read men or women, or just people of any sexual orientation. Then women couldn't "avoid sex" either. This is just disgusting, but it's a small part of a larger trend. The child custody battles should disregard gender and look at financial standings, relationship and stability. DV cases should be handled completely differently from what I've seen. It was absolutely disgusting.
I attended a speech a few years back being given by a person who is considered to be the pioneer of target-marketing hispanics.
In his studies of hispanic culture, he discovered, among other things, that the machismo/sexist mindset is deeply ingrained in the minds of hispanics. He cited it as one of the things that was keeping the hispanics from progressing. He said some other nasty shit about hispanics in his speech, but I don't remember most of it. The guy was hispanic himself, so it wasn't like he was being racist.
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