I wonder whether the judge would consider it "serious" if a woman were to turn around and pound the living fuck out of some asshole like this who grabs her ass in a store. Probably.
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/661931
A Calgary judge has decided that federal legislation that prohibits conditional sentences for sexual assault offences should not be applied to a serial bum pincher.
Provincial court Judge Anne Brown said the objective of legislation was not to include such crimes.
"The Parliamentary intent is to address ... serious violent offences that involve maximum penalties of 10 years or more and are indictable," Brown ruled as she sentenced Francisco Amaya to nine months house arrest and two years probation.
Amaya, who has prior convictions for seven similar incidents, grabbed a stranger's buttocks inside a grocery store on in February of last year.
Now, I don't know that sticking this guy in jail for 10 years would be useful. But I don't like the reasoning behind the judge's decision, that grabbing women's asses isn't really a "serious" sexual assault. No, it's not the same thing as raping her, obviously, but it's serious. Feminists have fought hard to have this sort of behaviour recognized for what it is: assault.
BTW, I love this:
Brown said while Amaya, 30, suffers from mental health issues related to his upbringing in El Salvador [b]and a diagnosis of frotteurism, a condition in which he gets aroused by touching others.[/b]
Oh, he gets aroused by feeling up women's asses? Gosh, how unusual! I've never met a guy before who gets turned on by feeling a woman up!