Interesting piece in Chatelaine. Sometimes the anti-Harper pieces are a little over the top -- but regardless, this is a good read even if a bit salty.
Harper's no ladies man
http://tiny.cc/84jGC James Morton 1100-5255 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario M2N 6P4
Heather Mallick? You want to know what Harper doesn't like? I bet it's "arm's length" groups that were created by lefter leaning governments as ways of forwarding that leftier agenda while firmly attached to tax-payer's teat. Heather is such a far left loon I'm sure she actually believes that crap about her rights being eroded. But it's a load of crap, steaming in the cold morning of the truth: Women are equal in Canada.
The problem with all these little groups is that when they achieve their goal they aren't able to stop. Look at MADD - they have made driving drunk so socially unacceptable that only the very young (stupid) or alcoholics still do it. But they still want more, they play each province against the next saying this province is tougher, you can't let that happen. They seriously want ZERO tolerance. The people who wanted reasonable laws left when they were achieved and the society has been left to the zealots, but zealots who trade on the good name and reasonableness of their predecessors.
And womens' groups are the same. They have achieved equality of opportunity, in fact they have so over achieved that males are in the minority at our universities and do significantly poorer in High school. These womens' groups trot out lies like women only earn 70% of what men do, implying women who do the same job as a man get paid less. Lie! Women choose jobs that pay less and they take more parental leave hence women make less on average than men. If women choose to work in those jobs that's their choice in a equal society, raising their pay to make the outcome equal would be patently unfair to men who don't take leave and work in tougher jobs that pay more. There is no guarantee of equality of outcome in our constitution, but socialists, the hard leftists, believe outcome is the measure and so they lie to achieve their goal. They want a socialist utopia not unlike those other socialist utopias in East Germany and Bulgaria. There, women were truly equal.
Rat said - "They want a socialist utopia not unlike those other socialist utopias in East Germany and Bulgaria. There, women were truly equal."
In a sense, redneck culture is the reactionary past of middle culture: rednecks retain the outmoded ideologies (sexism, racism, homophobia) that middle culture held fifty years earlier. So the middle needs redneck culture to define itself in terms of what it is not and to flatter itself with the evidence of its progress. Yet redneck culture is constantly being absorbed by the middle. At the vanishing point of "real" redneck culture, a simulated redneck culture must emerge in the media to take its place. BTW Rat, do you still have a mullet?
I don't undertstand what you mean by "salty." That's the best column by Mallick I've ever read, and she is exactly right.
Maybe the Rat could explain why women in Canada still get paid less; why women do not have an equal or greater number of elected representatives in Canada; why people like Harper call women leftwing fringe groups and think that women's health means making sure they are good baby machines.
You really make it appear really easy with your presentation however I find this matter to be actually something which I think I would by no means understand. It sort of feels too complex and extremely vast for me. I'm taking a look ahead in your subsequent post, I will try to get the hang of it!
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Heather Mallick? You want to know what Harper doesn't like? I bet it's "arm's length" groups that were created by lefter leaning governments as ways of forwarding that leftier agenda while firmly attached to tax-payer's teat. Heather is such a far left loon I'm sure she actually believes that crap about her rights being eroded. But it's a load of crap, steaming in the cold morning of the truth: Women are equal in Canada.
The problem with all these little groups is that when they achieve their goal they aren't able to stop. Look at MADD - they have made driving drunk so socially unacceptable that only the very young (stupid) or alcoholics still do it. But they still want more, they play each province against the next saying this province is tougher, you can't let that happen. They seriously want ZERO tolerance. The people who wanted reasonable laws left when they were achieved and the society has been left to the zealots, but zealots who trade on the good name and reasonableness of their predecessors.
And womens' groups are the same. They have achieved equality of opportunity, in fact they have so over achieved that males are in the minority at our universities and do significantly poorer in High school. These womens' groups trot out lies like women only earn 70% of what men do, implying women who do the same job as a man get paid less. Lie! Women choose jobs that pay less and they take more parental leave hence women make less on average than men. If women choose to work in those jobs that's their choice in a equal society, raising their pay to make the outcome equal would be patently unfair to men who don't take leave and work in tougher jobs that pay more. There is no guarantee of equality of outcome in our constitution, but socialists, the hard leftists, believe outcome is the measure and so they lie to achieve their goal. They want a socialist utopia not unlike those other socialist utopias in East Germany and Bulgaria. There, women were truly equal.
Rat said - "They want a socialist utopia not unlike those other socialist utopias in East Germany and Bulgaria. There, women were truly equal."
In a sense, redneck culture is the reactionary past of middle culture: rednecks retain the outmoded ideologies (sexism, racism, homophobia) that middle culture held fifty years earlier. So the middle needs redneck culture to define itself in terms of what it is not and to flatter itself with the evidence of its progress. Yet redneck culture is constantly being absorbed by the middle. At the vanishing point of "real" redneck culture, a simulated redneck culture must emerge in the media to take its place. BTW Rat, do you still have a mullet?
My lord.
Reading Heather Mallick is absolutely unbearable. She strikes me as a toy soldier wound too tightly in malice.
At some point one would think she'd want to back up her spewings with a fact or two.
Well, she stirred up some strong feelings!!!
I don't undertstand what you mean by "salty." That's the best column by Mallick I've ever read, and she is exactly right.
Maybe the Rat could explain why women in Canada still get paid less; why women do not have an equal or greater number of elected representatives in Canada; why people like Harper call women leftwing fringe groups and think that women's health means making sure they are good baby machines.
I thought I knew that name.
She wrote the piece "A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention" over two years ago. Google it.
It is rather sad.
You really make it appear really easy with your presentation however
I find this matter to be actually something which
I think I would by no means understand. It sort of feels too complex and extremely vast
for me. I'm taking a look ahead in your subsequent post, I will try to get the hang of it!
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