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C'mon, touch that kid like a man!

Ohio has proposed mandating that serial sex offenders and pedophiles use pink license plates.

On Wednesday, Cuyahoga Falls Republican Kevin Coughlin introduced legislation in the state Senate that would require the [pink] plates. He says it would be a good method for warning parents and children.

A warning of what? That a sex offender wants to pass you on the highway? Or is somewhere in the vicinity of the Parmatown Mall? I guess you would have to take the bus to interview for childcare jobs.

What bothers me about this isn't the light-Scarlet-Letter vibe, but the assumption that calling sexual predators feminine is more of an insult to pedophiles than it is to, say, women or the terminally fabulous.

(Via Broadsheet at Salon)