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Fixing boys? Why, are they broken?

January 15, 2008 by Brigitte Pellerin Leave a Comment

It’s not just feminists who bother me when they mistake particular women’s difficulties for systematic discrimination. For the most part, Hillary Clinton’s electoral troubles are hers and hers only – and she would have them were she a middle-aged white guy. I used to think the exact same thing back in the day Pauline Marois could not get herself elected at the head of the PQ (she has since become the party’s leader). It’s not your gender, I once wrote in a column. It’s you.

But then, I’m also not wild about those who say society is now hurting boys. See, assuming society does something bad to one gender takes responsibility away from individuals because it encourages them to blame their shortcomings on discrimination instead of blaming themselves. Sitting around feeling sorry for yourself has never been a good idea. Why promote it?

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: how to fix boys, Leonard Sax

ProWomanProLife on the radio

January 14, 2008 by Brigitte Pellerin Leave a Comment

Andrea and I are scheduled to be on Madely in the Morning tomorrow morning at 8:40 a.m. (Eastern). Listen live at www.cfra.com (or AM 580 if you’re in the Ottawa area).

[podcast]https://www.prowomanprolife.org/media/cfra_jan15.mp3[/podcast]

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: CFRA, Media, Steve Madely

I am woman, hear me sob?

January 11, 2008 by Brigitte Pellerin Leave a Comment

A semi-interesting piece in today’s Ottawa Citizen by Susan Riley about Hillary Clinton’s “sudden display of emotion” at a recent campaign event which has reportedly helped her avoid another defeat in New Hampshire.

…no one would portray Hillary — wealthy, well-educated, well-connected and white — as a victim. As an individual, she obviously isn’t; as a woman trying to become president of the United States, however, she faces as daunting and history-shattering a challenge as does Obama — and her odds may be longer. In the New York Times, veteran feminist Gloria Steinem argues that “gender is probably the most restrictive force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen, or who could be in the White House.”

This argument can quickly become futile and self-defeating: who has it tougher in America, black men or women? Both do, in different ways, says Steinem — and, of course, intolerance hurts others, including Jews, Muslims, and, in the case of Republican candidate Mitt Romney, Mormons. But when it comes to winning political office in North America, Steinem argues, it is still hardest for women. The evidence is everywhere — including at 24 Sussex, where Prime Minister Stephen Harper is dining tonight with the 13 provincial leaders, not a woman among them.

Perhaps I am weird. But this endless victimizing really bothers me. So it’s tough for a woman to become president of the United States? I hope so! It ought to be tough for anybody. 

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UPDATE, Jan. 14: Re Judi’s comment – there is a third possibility. Maybe Hillary Clinton is losing (or in danger of same; I’m not counting her out just yet) because people don’t like her, irrespective of her gender.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Hillary Clinton, Ottawa Citizen, Susan Riley

Every now and then, Hollywood makes sense

January 9, 2008 by Brigitte Pellerin Leave a Comment

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Sort of picking up on Andrea’s point, though perhaps with a twist. It’s not always true that beauty and fashion sense go together. If you pay any attention to Mr. Blackwell’s list (and if you don’t, you should start – it’s pure girlie fun), you will notice starlets that make his worst-dressed list very often display way too much skin for no good reason. I don’t mean to sound like a boring old prude, but there’s no way to redeem this outfit. He called Posh’s style “one skinny-mini monstrosity after another”. 

Hear! Hear!

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Hollywood, Mr. Blackwell, Posh Spice, worst-dressed celebrities

The question nobody’s asking

January 5, 2008 by Brigitte Pellerin Leave a Comment

If I weren’t afraid of stale metaphors, I’d say this is where the rubber meets the road.

Some MPs are rallying support for a proposed law that would make it a crime to kill or injure an unborn child after a Winnipeg woman, who was eight months pregnant, was shot to death.

Conservative MP Ken Epp, who recently tabled private member’s bill C-484 called the “Unborn Victims of Crime Act,” said the legislation would create a new offence in the Criminal Code. The bill addresses a “huge gap” in law when a violent act is perpetrated against a woman who has chosen to carry the fetus to term, he said.

“This is a case when the woman has decided to have that child, and that choice has to be protected in law,” Epp said. “I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m pro-life. But this bill goes very narrowly at one issue — where the woman has made the choice to have the child, and that choice is taken away unilaterally, without her consent and usually with violence.”

Seems like a no-brainer. Most people, I think, would agree attacking a pregnant woman is worse than attacking a man or a non-pregnant woman. It’s just one of these things everybody knows. Including, it would appear, the pro-abortion person the newspaper story had to quote.

Carolyn Egan, a spokeswoman for the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, said the usual things about slippery slopes and women’s rights (as if the rights of women who actually want to keep their babies didn’t count), but then, in the words of the newspaper story, she “suggested a more appropriate way of dealing with such a serious crime is for the courts to impose a stiffer sentence for the perpetrator when the victim is pregnant.”

And nobody thought to ask her why. Why impose a stiffer sentence for the perpetrator when the victim is pregnant? Why should the justice system care about a clump of cells that, we insist, is NOT a person?

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, Carolyn Egan, Ken Epp, Unborn Victims of Crime Act

A revolution in Britain?

December 29, 2007 by Brigitte Pellerin Leave a Comment

A story in the Daily Telegraph explains how an overwhelming majority of British GPs do not wish to perform abortions.

Family doctors are threatening a revolt against Government plans to allow them to perform abortions in their surgeries, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Four out of five GPs do not want to carry out terminations even though the idea is being tested in NHS pilot schemes, a survey has revealed.

The findings will throw doubt on Government trials to provide medical abortions – using drugs in the early stage of pregnancy – outside hospitals.

In a survey for The Daily Telegraph that was carried out by Doctors.Net, an online organisation representing GPs in England and Wales, only 14 per cent of the 2,175 GPs who responded were willing to undertake the procedure.

More than three quarters said they were not willing to carry out abortions and 54 per cent of these strongly objected to the idea.

The comments at the bottom of the news story are quite interesting. Most seem strongly against the idea of forcing doctors to abort babies.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: abortion, doctors, Health care

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