. . . was nice.
I headed down there over the weekend, and I managed to squeeze some city exploring in between the business I had to do. It’s been a number of years since my last visit, and I can’t get over how much the city has changed. Not just the conspicuous absence of a couple of towers. But also how much more patriotic everyone seems. And how clean the city is in general, compared to what I remember from my last time there. Still expensive though. That hasn’t changed.
At any rate, I missed a bunch of news over the weekend, and rather than play catch-up, I’ll post a few links:
Allison, Lynn, and Harry commemorate Yom HaZikaron. Barry has been all over the North Korean train crash story. David weighs in on the abortion debate. And Meryl tries to take back the F-word from the nutbags. (In case you’re wondering, the F-word in question is feminism.)
In other news, seems like the only Habs fan cheering these days is none other than Vinny Lecavalier. *Sigh*.
Thanks for the reference, but you messed up the link for me 🙁
Ouch, that was an angrier emoticon than I felt, it was suppose to be sad, not glowering like that nasty boy above.
How about this: ;(
Oops. All fixed.
Is there a list of emoticons somewhere? I should probably check haloscan, I was hoping to get the emoticon that was shedding tears…
Sorry, but feminism is a dirty word, made so by feminists.
Radical feminism wasn’t a leftwing fringe, it was a form of mainstream fascism, predicated upon the traditional attitude that girls should be treated as “special,” so one must never contradict them.
Anyone who disagreed with their lies — e.g. that all women are right, all the time, and all men are inherently evil — was relentlessly persecuted. At one point, after an article I wrote, leading feminists tried to sue me into silence.
It worked, I’m sad to say. There are some issues no one could fight. Even today, merely asking why a female lawyer who can shout down a cop in court can’t initiate a relationship or pay for a date is likely to ruin a writer’s career.
More…
Meryl, who is so proud of the number of women graduating the Yale law school, perhaps I might ask her — whom do these women marry? Judges? Senior partners?
In fact, as often as not, they marry no one at all. Certainly not the poor schlemazels they pushed aside.
And of course, there’s the embarrassing fact that half of them will no longer be interested in full time careers after the age of 35, but the poor schlemazels they pushed aside will still be pushing brooms.
Scott is wrong. I guess that makes him a nutbag!
Wow…Scott, you sound like Marc Lepine. Unresolved issues maybe?
And of course, there’s the embarrassing fact that half of them will no longer be interested in full time careers after the age of 35
So, women are more likely to become disenchanted with their careers than men?
I’m hardly a feminist (I believe in equality, feminists generally do not), but your above statement was just ludicrous. I would ask if you have anything to back up that claim, but we all know that you don’t.
Knave, wtf? You can’t put all feminists in one basket since they don’t all share the same opinions. In truth, many bitterly disagree with each other on issues ranging from abortion to international relations. You are right that some feminists don’t believe in equality, but many others do. And then, of course, there are differences in how equality is defined.
You can’t put all feminists in one basket since they don’t all share the same opinions
I didn’t say that all feminists were against equality, just the majority.
If you are in favour of affirmative action, then in my books you are against equality. Most feminists believe in affirmative action, ergo…
That’s what I said about different interpretations of equality.