Does anyone remember
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james_davis_nicollThe Doonesbury strip where Nicole reports on men the way the news reports on women? What was the date that ran?
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Re: Does anyone remember
Date: 2014-02-19 12:33 am (UTC)Re: Does anyone remember
Date: 2014-02-19 02:42 am (UTC)Re: Does anyone remember
Date: 2014-02-19 04:54 pm (UTC)The sexism is probably not as pervasive (nor accepted) as it was in the '70's but its expression may be more extreme; and there certainly are more and quicker ways of disseminating it.
I remember particularly the appalling treatment of one of our Federal Members of Parliment, Belinda Stronach (by no means a person I had a great deal of regard for) back in her time in the House. Lots of attention was paid to her looks ... to which I said (to myself ... who else would pay attention?) '*sigh*, when is this society ever going to GROW UP?'
Then, when she crossed the floor (i.e. switched political parties), this crowd really went to town. One particularly odious commentator - who, I greatly regret to say, is a relative of mine - wrote a long opinion piece in which she was cast as "Belinda Streetwalker."
Hmmm... I know this fellow to be a devout conservative, in all senses of the word; but I doubt very much that, had he been around in the early 1900's, he would have written such a piece about his hero Winston "Two-time Floozy" Churchill.
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