Militant feminists do a disservice to those of us who are sensible, responsible women, by linking their obvious and vocal idiocy with their gender. For example, a handful of bored lesbians get up in a lather over a reference to "thy sons" in the national anthem, and give the rest of the country the impression of women as frail and insecure in this big bad man's world...
"Language is the power of the ruling class to define reality in its own terms to make invisible all others!" Ruth, 68, a short woman with grey hair and a contagious cackle shouts to the rafters in the empty Senate chamber. "I haven't got the exact quote, but it's like that."
The paraphrased message was delivered by feminist Catholic theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether and Ruth says she took it to heart when she first came across it three decades ago.
That philosophy inspired her quest to render the Canadian national anthem more gender-neutral – an issue that she says has been kicking around for decades – and she suggested the idea to Harper before the holidays. She says he had asked his caucus for low-cost proposals and other bright, shiny objects that could be put on the agenda for the coming months.
Well, maybe Nancy can't handle the pressure of acknowledging that there is still a segment of the community which doesn't have to strap on it's manhood for use, but in the country where I live, there is still plenty of room to let the boys be people too.
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