Language law on women needs to go

Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-WA) is sponsoring a bill to repeal an old state law that criminalizes the “slander of women.”
But this isn’t any normal slander law:
The statute prohibits “false or defamatory words or language which shall injure or impair” the virtuous and chaste reputation of any female over 12. The law does say it is OK to slander a “common prostitute.”
Obviously no ones wants to be called a big slut (and no, I’m not going to get into the whole “reclaiming” argument), but Kohl-Welles argues that this law is simply reinforcing the woman-on-a-pedestal stereotype. Not to mention it assumes that a woman’s worth is bound to her virginity. That’s why you can say whatever the fuck you want to a “common prostitute.” Ick.