Telling your wife she's not pretty may soon be an offence

[Jason]

By MUGUNTAN VANAR


KOTA KINABALU: A husband telling his wife that she is no longer pretty in an attempt to humiliate her can be classified as an emotional violence offence if amendments are made to the Domestic Violence Act (DVA)1994.

The plan is to amend the DVA for the inclusion of a clause on emotional violence against women.

Currently, they are only protected only against physical abuse, Women's Development Department director-general Datuk Dr Noorul Ainur Mohd Nur said.

She said on Wednesday that the aim for proposing the amendment was to safeguard women both physically and emotionally.

Dr Noorul said emotional violence was a form of abuse that would deeply scar a woman and lower their self-esteem, dignity and self-confidence.

“It could be a case where her husband tells his wife she is ugly or humiliates her until she feels emotionally pressured,” she told reporters at the end of a seminar on how to curb violence against women at Wisma Wanita here.

She added they were in the process of bringing the proposed amendments to Parliament.

State Community development and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun closed the seminar organised by Sabah Women’s Affairs Department.

Azizah, in her speech, said that there was a need for the law to protect emotional violence against women.

Azizah said there were a total of 99 cases of violence against women in Sabah in the first quarter of 2009 compared to 220 cases during the same period last year which was reported to the police.

picked from thestar.com.my

[reinmuster]

Many husbands gonna have to figure out a replacement for those kind of words very soon. lol!!

[howy_lee]

nabeh den wat if women tellin her friends in joking way eh ur friend look scuky wei and no money no etc..
doesnt this influence our confidence as well our self esteem ?

no pretty say humiliate, praise pretty say we just tryin to get over with it. Whadahell !?

[CAPTAIN JJ]

thats y wife can't blame husband dishonest.....tell the truth then its an offence

[anyon996]

wakaka.. den say 'u r great on bed'
would it be an offense?
=p

[pieris]

then just say" wow..u are so pretty" in sarcastic way.
then no one gets sued. lol

-another example of Sarcasm saving lives...

[orcablue]

(07-10-2009 05:01 PM)pieris Wrote:  then just say" wow..u are so pretty" in sarcastic way.
then no one gets sued. lol

-another example of Sarcasm saving lives...

lol

[muiyee]

I am disapointed at the men in Malaysia do no know how to respect their wife. Name calling, public humiliation, emotional abuse should be recognize. These sort of act only discriminate their partner, how is that call love? Even though if this go forward, it will need psychiatrist to prove the causes of it. And ask yourself, how many women in Msia would do that? Seeing a psychiatrist and sueing husband is still a big no no in Msia society. So the pitiful guys should be safe, poor women who has to go through that in daily basis got nobody care for them. Like the chinese say, discipline ppl kids but don't get involve in ppl relationship.

[anyon996]

err.. no name calling ar?
i dono gals mind about name calling leh..
=,=

[Jason]

Annyonn ...

Gals like guy call them sweet heart, honey, darling, dear dear, ching ai de, .....
So do you learn a new lesson today?