Licence To Lie For Italian Women

[Ioannis]

Adulterous Italian women can now protect their honour with impunity

Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour.

The court gave its landmark ruling after hearing the case of a 48-year-old woman, convicted of giving false testimony to police by denying she had lent her mobile phone to her lover.

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I thought the men of Italy were macho? their going to let these adulterous women now protect their skankiness with impunity?

[Kernunnos]

Well, this is true for italian men too ... yodel singing

[Menydh]

This can only undermine further the relations between men and women, as men will be in their own right under moral grounds to suspect of all women as cheaters and liars, by definition.

[Weltschmerz]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

This can only undermine further the relations between men and women, as men will be in their own right under moral grounds to suspect of all women as cheaters and liars, by definition.

I agree completely. This sort of thing is definitely sending wrong signals.

[Marcus Marulus]

Isn't this one of the many manifestations of newly emerging pattern of double standards in male-female relationships, a pattern combining some of the worst traits of the old chivalry with the worst ones of the modern feminism?