10 months jail for sexist language

NewstalkZB reports:

A cosmetic surgeon from Belgium has been handed a 10-month prison sentence for a lecture in which he complained that women were no longer willing to give sexual favours in exchange for protection and money from men. …

In his 2019 speech at Ghent University, Hoeyberghs called women “hysterical, lazy, weak, stupid” and “dirty creatures, who seek money and protection from men to whom they owe sex”. 

Women served “to satisfy men sexually and perform household chores”, he said, but “don’t want to open their legs anymore”. 

Women could be compared to “animals” with “udders”, the surgeon told his postgraduate audience. 

Specific women, including students in the auditorium, a TV broadcaster, and green activist Greta Thunberg, were targeted with insults. 

Women were “worthless” in the role of doctors, judges, teachers, scientists, journalists, and business executives, Hoeyberghs said. …

Hoeyberghs, who qualified as a cosmetic surgeon in the UK and is a frequent TV commentator in Belgium, was invited to speak by the university.

Hoeyberghs is a pretty reprehensible person and what he said is incredibly offensive. God knows, why he was invited to speak.

But I don’t think he should be going to prison for what he said. The best thing people could do would be to ignore him, not jail him.