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Jerks are off the hook
IT is no longer a crime to be a total sleazeball in South Korea. PhewII know many guys will be breathing a sigh of reliefat this news.
Until now, any male who pretended to be a sincere, marriageable person in a bid to get a woman he was trying to seduce to drop her guard, and other things, could be hauled off to jail.
For 56 years. South Korean women having been going to the police station to
say: "My vile, evil boyfriend led me to believe that he was going to marry me so I let him have his wicked way. Then he changed his mind." The man would be locked up for two years.
But a team of nine judges in South Korea recently decided that this son of sleazy seduction technique was not a crime, but just the sort of thing guys do. In most of the rest of the world, such men are not jailed, but allowed to get on with their lives, with their only punishment to be labeled jerks, sleazeballs, cads, bounders, etc.
The judges' final verdict, with six for and three against, read: "The government should refrain from interfering in men's sexual activities of tempting women in an unharmful manner." Court spokesman Noh Hee-bum told reporters that men who think they have been
harmed by this law could ask for state compensation. "Excuse me, I've been traumatized by having been called a total sleazeball by loads of women, can I have a very large amount of money please?"
The odd thing is that women's groups in South Korea have approved the change.
I asked women at the bar why they thought this was. "Men are sleazeballs," a feminist said. "Women know this. We'd rather handle it ourselves than have the law try to handle it for us. It's too condescending to have judges sort it out."
I felt I had to defend the male sex. "Not all men are sleazeballs," I said.
"Oh yeah?" she said. "Then how come the most popular sportsman in the world isTigerWoods?"
There's no answer to that.
So what should a woman do if she has
been seduced and then abandoned? Well, in some organisations, "being dropped by a jerk" is counted as an official illness.
At Hime and Co, a Japanese cosmetics company, women aged 20 to 29 get two days off if they tell the human resources department that they have been traumatized by the unhappy ending of a love affair. They are then granted 48 hours off work to weep, eat chocolate and leave obscene messages on the guy's phone. Women aged 30 or more get three days.
A similar scheme is running at a firm in Shanghai. Gu Jun, professor of sociol ogy at Shanghai University, told the Chinese press that such a move helps build a harmonious culture. I'm not sure that the guys would agree.
Meanwhile, there should be a temporary drop in the number of predatory
jerks preying on women around the world. If they have got any sense, they'll all be in South Korea, trying to see if they can get compensation. If Elin Nordegren
is reading this and wondering where her husband Tiger is, try Seoul.
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