Weird Laws

This seemed incredible to me but I was downloading an application onto my Ipod Touch called Weird Laws and I found out some amazing things. In Georgia it is against the law to start false rumors. In class we have been looking over stereotypes and some stereotypes can be caused by false rumors and it just amazed me that there was a law prohibiting it. Even with a law prohibiting rumors to be formed it still does not make an impact on people. We have also been discussing how women are degraded and are oppressed and I thought it was interesting to also see that in Kentucky buying a hat without your husband’s permission is prohibited. So women in Kentucky you are not allowed to buy a hat without your husband’s permission, how silly is that. Now let’s focus on the ability for men. In Mississippi, a would–be groom must “prove himself manly” prior to marriage by hunting and killing either six blackbirds or three crows. Now what happens if you a male is handicap? If he cannot shoot a crow or be able to even hold a gun or is blind is he still not consider a man? Is he allowed to be married to the love of his life or does he have to go to another state to be married to avoid this horrible law? In Illinois it is illegal to be broke, so if you unemployed then you were sent to jail. I have found out most recently that this was made a law so when slaves were freed they could not leave without having another job already at hand or without having money in their pocket. It was a way to keep slaves from being free. Theses laws just seem wrong and degrading to me and just really just made my jaw drop when I saw it.