globeandmail.com: ‘Schoolyard bully’ quip sparks furor in House
I’m agreeing with most of the things people are saying about how this is bad and really displays why we can’t be post-feminist (ie. in a society where feminism is no longer relevant, thanks Louisa) quite yet, so I’m not going to repeat it. I’ve rarely heard nice things about Question Period anyways (I used to find it funny that one of Jack Layton’s reasons for encouraging female representation in parliament is because it would improve the language of the House). But anyways… the Globe can say all it wants, but I think the fact that they make photos “Belinda’s men” the second news link on their homepage says something too.
I still disagree with Ms. Stronach’s choice of timing for a party-switch when she did… she could have sat as an independent until the next election (but she was re-elected in her riding anyways, so it’s not too big a deal). However, there are all those things people say about her that you know they wouldn’t say if she was a man – grr… and the idea of post-feminism was so attractive (I thought small-scale maybe, but clearly not). A parliamentarian’s love life can’t be so interesting compared to the idea that our Green Party might actually get a seat somehow. Women need to wrap their head around this too ’cause I remember reporters asking other female MPs what they thought of Stronach when she first showed on the scene (runnning for leadership of the then newly-merged Conservative Party) and all they had to say about her was that she had nice shoes. Geeze.
I like the Globe. It’s well written, especially compared to the Toronto Star or the Montreal Gazette. But they’re right when they say it’s a Toronto-paper. Gang troubles in Montreal? What? News is too expensive. I want the Walrus to bring back its student discount. And I want Question Period to be less pissy.
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In my anthropology class on popular Chinese culture through ethnography and film, we’ve moved onto a unit on the ethnic minorities of China. It’s cool. I’m liking the reading on the Tai Lües of Sipsongpanna and the fact that I can follow it. I brought it home for train-reading at Thanksgiving and it was weird ’cause Mom and I were looking in that Saturday’s Style section of the Globe and Mail and we were looking at spring 2007’s lines of really mod-looking mini-dresses – at least two of which were really pretty and my mom was like ooh, I used to wear that kind of stuff and I was like ooer, I wish I had the legs for that (grumblegrumble) – and she pointed out that one of the dresses/tunics was totally (she didn’t say “totally,” she said whatever a middle-aged Chinese-Canadian woman would say) ripping off Chinese ethnic minorities. And I thought hmm… this is in Italy (or something, some fashion week in a Western European city big with fashion). (more…)
