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- THE COMPLIMENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES The Spanish President of the Observatory against the genus violence has said that the compliment is an invasion against the privacy of women, so it has to be eliminated, although some people consider it flattering. She explained that compliments are common but noone can make a comment about the women´s physical appearance. There are cities, like Cairo (Egipt) where women wear headphones and earplugs to avoid hearing them. Are compliments the same as rudenesses? A NY Association recorded an actress who was walking in the street for 10 hours and had to stand up with them. Spain had a recently period in which compliments to women were forbidden. While Primo de Rivera´s dictatorship (1923-1930) no compliments could be told to women. You can be punished to a arrest from 5 to 20 days or a penalty payment from 40 to 500 pesetas (the old currency in Spain, now disuse), like the penal code ordered. It is said that many men in disagreement brought small posts with writings such as “you are so beautiful” or “you are a monument” to show and hide them at conveniently. One day a man had one where was written “Good bye Anna, I don’t say anything because I am scared of the 40 (pesetas). Ingenuity has no limits. To what extent do formal compliments are dangerous or disrespectful? Is it fair or is it an exaggeration? What about compliments to men? The Spanish President of the Observatory didn,t tell anything about them…
January 10, 201580
