[Dan Middleton]

Dispatch website is pay-to-play, unfortunately. I couldn't discern whether this was one of their pieces or picked up from wires - no byline.

[ShadowDancer]

In Michigan, a man who cursed after falling out of a canoe was found guilty in 1999 of violating a century-old state law against cursing in front of women and children

I remember that and I found it incredibly disturbing. My complexion just isn't suited by prison gray.

[SolidSupplySide]

Kohl-Welles, a women’s studies lecturer at the University of Washington, says the law is a relic of a time when men put women on a pedestal and denied them basic rights.

Indeed. It is every woman's constitutional right to be slandered.

[Damifino]

"a relic of a time when men put women on a pedestal"

Too bad, I rather like the notion.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Call me crazy, but I'm not sure I disagree with everything she is saying. For once this is a feminist not wanting simply the positive side of "equal rights". If "equal rights" exist, that means taking some of the bad with the good.

[E Rocc]

Is it still slander if you call someone a "hillary"?

-Eric

[anniegetyourgun]

Sen. Kohl-Welles is neither a strumpet, hussy, or wench. Just your average, run-of-the-mill liberal D who is wrong about almost everything.

[FreePaul]

Sixty or so years ago an uncle in Pennsylvania was fined twenty-five dollars for calling a whore a whore. Seems you couldn't publicly point that out at the time.

I can't believe that this Washington law would be invoked today. If it were it would certainly be shot down as some form of gender discrimination. Repeal it or forget about it. Doesn't seem to make much difference.

[Savage Beast]

I still put women on a pedestal. Men too. I have Todd Beamer and Rachel Scott on a pedestal, and when I meet a stranger, unless I have reason to believe otherwise, I assume that he or she might be as heroic as Todd and Rachel. Their supreme beauty is that they were average people like you and me.

That said, I hope Jeanne succeeds with this because I've called many a woman a wanton strumpet, and some were and some might not have been.