Once again, I hate Margaret Wente.I wasn't going to wade into this; I really wasn't. I was very, very happy that Dr. Morgentaler was inducted into the Order of Canada, for once I actually cared about the Order, and that was that. I didn't want to read about the so-called "controversy," I didn't want to know about the negative comments. I was happy ( Read more... )

The problem with being a feminist is, when you do research to back up your very good claim that the Conservative government is a sexist pig, it gets you so angry. Not because it's a stereotype, but because any right-thinking, rational person with a half-decent brain and good understanding of the concepts of "rights" and "equality" would be - angry ( Read more... )

I think I might love this:The goal, says de Beauvoir, should be to become an independent woman, not a pretty object. Anything less than self-sufficiency makes you a “parasite.” Standing between you and your destiny are men, god, babies, makeup, other women, D. H. Lawrence, the education system, your mother, your father, abortion laws, your boss, ( Read more... )

I read this article in the New York Times on the weekend, and I re-read it this morning, and I still think the author missed the point. So I thought I'd ask you, dear friends list, because a rather large and scary proportion of you are bibliophiles like me ( Read more... )

Oops: Heritage Minister Bev Oda asked Conservative MPs to suggest which events should get money from a new sponsorship program even before rules for the $30-million plan have been established.
What I love about this is that an MP found the letter left behind in the committee room. This, and the accidental leak of the environmental announcements: ( Read more... )

Linda Hirshman has an op-ed in the NY Times about mothers and workAnd the Books section also has an article about the recent raft of "mommy" books, which is less interesting. (The Hirshman is also mostly rehash, but at least has a Point.) Apparently women have feelings about this sort of thing, and like to debate them on discussion boards, but they ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail this morning has an article about Michaëlle Jean that is less than flattering. And also, kind of pointless. It's the kind of fluff piece that would appear next to an analysis prompted by either a scandal or an anniversary, neither of which is really happening. Valpy is usually better than this ( Read more... )

This is why civil unions don't work, despite all the wishing and hoping: Nevertheless, residents who work for companies headquartered in other states, and those whose insurers are based outside New Jersey, have found it difficult if not impossible to sign their partners up for health insurance. Unions and employers whose self-insured plans are ( Read more... )

http://community.livejournal.com/feminist/2865192.html

The most appalling thing to me, aside from the obvious, is the fact that while this thing is everywhere on the feminist Net, there hasn't been a peep in the mainstream media, and we are talking about one of the best universities in Ontario. Imagine if a similar spoof had been written without ( Read more... )

There's a long post coming about exactly why the Conservatives are evil (in case you needed more reasons, which kind of begs the question, what are you doing here?), but here's a quick thing from the CBC:

Toronto area gets $1B for transit

And the thing is, we ... didn't. I mean, it's $962 million, and this is what it covers:

• an expansion of the ( Read more... )