The judge sounds a little like a Rifle Dropping, Soap Dodger, Six-Weeker, Surrender Monkey. Hmm, slurs against the French are pretty lame, accurate, but lame.
A Paris tribunal has ruled that calling a male hairdresser a "faggot" is not homophobic - "because hair salons regularly employ gay people".
The case relates to an employee at a salon who was fired after failing to turn up for work while sick.
His boss accidentally sent him a text using the slur, so the hairdresser took him to an employment tribunal claiming unfair dismissal.
French Labour Minister Myriam el Khomri called the judgement "shocking".
The text from the salon boss read: "I am not going to keep [the employee]... I don't have a good feeling about this guy. He's a faggot,"
In the reasoning, the tribunal said: "If we put it in the context of the field of hairdressing, the council considers that the term 'faggot' used by a manager cannot be considered as a homophobic insult, because hair salons regularly employ gay people, notably in female hairdressers, and that poses no problem at all." Cont.
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