Fringe elements
I am very proud to report that our ''left-wing fringe'' group called ''women'' meme is spreading.
Tonight, on his season debut, CBC's Rick Mercer cracked a joke incorporating PM Stephen Harper's ill-considered reference to the Court Challenges program and ''cHarmony'' -- a dating service for Conservatives.
(They date before marriage?)
Our Facebook group is now 3,129 strong -- and the LEAF t-shirts are being shipped out from coast-to-coast.
A couple of weeks ago, two female MPs borrowed our message and wore it into the House of Commons.
Over at the National Post, they're taking cheap and sexist shots at us -- a sure sign of success.
Now, Pale over at A Creative Revolution, one of our group administrators and a co-designer of our t-shirt, is coming at this from the right angle.
The right-wing fringe angle, the one that would limit women's reproductive choices, take back gay rights and only God -- and I mean that ironically -- knows what else given a majority in Parliament.
Watch:
Sorry, but "women" are not a left-wing fringe group. Please stop appropriating my gender for your political purposes.
Posted by: SUZANNE | September 29, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Why did it cause me severe pain to hear John Hagee's voice in that video? I'm sure it was not just his tone.
Posted by: Jim M | September 30, 2009 at 07:15 AM
"REAL" women do not speak for me either. Barefoot and pregnant and compliant isn't the ideal for the majority of women.
Doesn't stop you from appropriating my rights and my voice, now does it?
The real fringe group. "REAL" women.
Posted by: pale | September 30, 2009 at 02:23 PM
Gosh, SUZANNE -- could you buy a sense of humour? Obviously, women are not a fringe group -- that's kind of the point of the snark?
Posted by: skdadl | September 30, 2009 at 05:51 PM
Amen, sister Pale!
Posted by: ...pat. | September 30, 2009 at 06:39 PM
Suzanne,
> "... but "women" are not a left-wing fringe group."
these ones are - "Status of Women, the Court Challenges program, the funding of Montreal’s Divercite festival, LEAF, etc.", cf. the rather longwinded oxymoron:
"not partisan and not an advocacy group but a registered charity that has intervened in many landmark human rights cases"
And if the E&BM persists in her rather charming delusion that they represent women as a whole, well, it IS her blog, after all ....
> "Please stop appropriating my gender for your political purposes."
You sound like you might be amenable to a plea to stop using "gender" in this context, and using "sex" instead. Mmm?
Meanwhile, following the links ....
"Harper’s hubris will catch up to him eventually ...."
Trudeau pere's never did.
Posted by: The Stygian and his Shemitish Dogs | October 01, 2009 at 07:08 AM