Michigan criminalises midge seeing with five years in jail or 10k fine

[Jongleterre]

thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/03/michigan-criminalizes-misgendering-with-5-years-in-jail-or-10k-fine/

Misgendering not midge seeing.

It's ok if you see a midge!

You don't wanna see midges in Scotland, wee beasties

I was wondering! I mean yes midges are bleeding annoying when your walking through the woods into a swarm of them. But f or a different country to legislate against seeing them!

😂

the humor typo is the only thing keeping this headline from dragging me into total darkness at the moment. This is such a poorly drafted law with huge potential for misuse. The United States values free speech so much we put it in our constitution. There are caveats, but I can’t see this standing in court.

Bill HB 4474 – passed in the Michigan House on June 20 – could make it a felony to intentionally “intimidate” someone for, among other things, using the wrong pronouns. The bill also extends to a number of “protected classes,” including race or color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or national origin.” By “intimidate,” the House means “a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable individual to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.” However, the bill does not offer an objective definition against which intimidation or harassment can be held. Therefore, it is up to the interpretation of the listener as well as the local prosecutor to determine whether what was said was indeed intimidation.

What could possibly go wrong!

Should we warn him?

Nah! He'll find out eventually if he ever decides to go there!😁

What's the betting it won't work the other way though?

How on earth did we get to the point when calling a man a man gets you more jail time than bashing someone over the head with a brick and stealing their wallet?

It's the people seeing him I'm worried about!

I used to have such a crush on wee Midge.

I can't see this law being constitutional. I'm starting to think gender activism has been infiltrated by actual transphobes. It's just going to breed resentment.

But as Boiled said, what can possibly go wrong?

Bill HB 4474 – passed in the Michigan House on June 20 – could make it a felony to intentionally “intimidate” someone for, among other things, using the wrong pronouns.

The way I'm reading this is that it's a felony to intentionally intimidate someone who has misgendered you - not, as they presumably intend, a felony to deliberately misgender.

Surely they mean BY, among other things, using the wrong pronouns?

I saw some midges yesterday. Thank god I'm not in Michigan 😉😉

I wondered what I had done !

Thing is one small fly looks very like another. Will the midge has to testify, in court (behind screens obv.), that it is a midge and not a fruit fly or a gnat or a blackfly. An entomologist can't identify it, not without looking at it.

Thank you OP for your cock up its brightening my day!

The midges the midges
I'm no gonna kid yeese
The midges are really the limit
With teeth like piranhas
They drive you bananas
When they get under your simmit!

https://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/henderson/singalong/wav/104%20The%20Midges.wav

Welllllll y know fruit flies like a banana. And time flies like an arrow. Hehheh.

Ahem.

Back to OP. Indeed what could go wrong

OMG stooooopid samsung putting huge gaps in. Aaaaarg.

A bad workwoman always blames her tools!

Well I wondered! 😂