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Injustice in Italy?

Location: Rome
Reporting: Prof. Krinbring
Date: 05 Sep 2002
Time: 17:13

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MISSAGLIA, Italy (from a Reuters report) - Husband's eyes wandering? Make yourself sexier. At least that's the solution proposed by an Italian mayor -- and a woman mayor at that.

Wives in the northern town of Missaglia had complained to mayor Marta Casiraghi about a young woman who sunbathed topless on her terrace.

They complained that the men in the town of some 7,000 people were spending too much time ogling, so they asked Casiraghi to order the woman to put her clothes back on.

But the mayor, far from sympathizing, told the wives to get sexy if they wanted to keep their men. "The girl was very pretty and was soaking up some sun. Topless sunbathing is largely tolerated and widespread nowadays. There's nothing we can do," Casiraghi told Il Nuovo, a web-based newspaper.

"Instead, I'd advise the wives to play their rival at her own game -- make themselves more beautiful."

Mama mia! The Mayor is right! We applaud this politician’s straightforward “tell it like it is” approach and hope she eventually runs for office in the U.S.of A.


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