Comments on: May misplays the "sexism" card

By: Rob Fedders

Rob Fedders — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:02:19 +0000

Lol! Bring it on.

I notice there is not a real intellectual rebuttal.. rather, just typical PC fembot insults, as usual, void of any intellectual input. Sigh. Long live MAY! MAY she bring Canada right to into Communism!

Fools!

By: lizziBorden

lizziBorden — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:56:28 +0000

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By: jonA

jonA — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:55:07 +0000

Rob Fedders

What’s the matter, sweetie, are you suffering from premature andropause again?! tsk tsk such “hatred in your voice” hon! Tone it down already. Your mama may hear ya!

By: msakel

msakel — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:51:49 +0000

Some of the macho-men’s vitriolically misogynist comments against May are a bit retro, don’t you think, boys?

Come on, now, we saw last night 4 suits and a lively, informed, intelligent and feisty woman debating and holding her own against the Fascist Father of the almost-Parliament of Canada, Herr Harper!

Elizabeth is a breath of intelligent, voter-magnet air that will give the tired old macho-megalomaniacs in Ottawa a run for their taxpayers’ money!

You go, girl!

By: Ti-Guy

Ti-Guy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:33:40 +0000

she said “men” with such hatred in her voice that it was disgusting.

Calm down, dear.

By: wayne moores

wayne moores — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:55:00 +0000

I wish the rest of Canada could have had a first hand view of her shananigans in Cape Breton 30 years ago when she hung a bunch of farmers and woodsman out to dry in an ill concieved law suit againt a local pulpmill. She fled to Ottawa leaving the locals to clean up the mess

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:59:08 +0000

May in a very strange way is about to experience an old axiom : be careful what you wish for! Now that she has finally managed to finagle her way onto the public stage we are about to experience a newsflash : politicians are chameleons (they have to be). May will have to work on her persona or she will lose the support that right now just comes from the name of her party after all put green in your name and you can probabaly get 5% of the canadian vote right there. She has a terrible habit of cutting people off and if she doesn’t deal with that she will go down in flames. She is canny, articulate and intelligent so I for one am looking forward to the debate and being a conservative myself I am going to watch the dynamics closely as she and hers are obviously going after the Conservative, BQ, NDP and undecided voters right now but you know what they say about politicians. She has already expressed her desire for Dion to be PM so I don’t expect her to target him at all (that will come later if she’s smart)

By: On Inclusion in Televised Leaders’ Debates : Paul McKeever

On Inclusion in Televised Leaders’ Debates : Paul McKeever — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:36:09 +0000

[...] included only the leaders of parties that won seats in the Canadian Parliament back in 2006. May played the “sexism” card – because the consortium decision makers and the other parties [...]

By: Rob Fedders

Rob Fedders — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:36:43 +0000

No, it is not over the top, Dave. Did you actually see and hear her say it, or did you just read it.

She said “men” with such hatred in her voice that it was disgusting.

But hey, nice try at being a feminist apologist.

If sexism is disgusting from males to females, then it is equally disgusting from females to males… because, after all, you do believe in equality, don’t you?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:39:45 +0000

LOL Rob. Your indignation is a little over the top don’t you think?

While her comment may have been misplayed, she *is* the only female candidate and a one off comment like that was clearly designed to remind female voters what it is like to be a women in a mans world.

But hey nice try there to spin it out of all proportion. :)

By: Rob Fedders

Rob Fedders — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:55:03 +0000

Any woman who’s voice drips with such obvious hatred as she gets on national tv and blames “4 men” and then “5 men” has just lost all credibility in my eyes.

Who is really the sexist here? The most sexist notion of all is that only one gender is capable of sexism.

I am so sick of these fembot harpies.

Someone who willing shows such contempt for 50% of the population of the nation is obviously not fit to run for office, let alone speak to the nation.

Show me a politician who talks about women the way that May dissed men. Replace the words “men” with “blacks” or “Jews” and you should quickly see how awful it is to have female politicians running for office who continue to parrot this kind of nonsense.

Pound sand, Elizabeth May. You lost my consideration, and hopefully that of the other 15,000,000 awful Canadian men as well.

By: Dot

Dot — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:47:53 +0000

Especially whiny if you consider that for the 2006 debates, Jim Harris (a male), then leader of the GPC was also turned down largely for the same reasons. The vote for the GPC did not change appreciably between the 2004 and 2006 elections (4.3% to 4.5%) and they had also no members after the 2004 election who had actually sat in parliament as an elected Green.

Does anyone recall Audrey MacLaughlin or Alexa McDonough being denied a spot in the Leader’s debates because they were female?

By: Joan Tintor

Joan Tintor — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:12:00 +0000

I agree. It looked whiny to sling the sexism charge without evidence.

By: Lianne George

Lianne George — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:52:30 +0000

This is a really good point.
It was the responses of the other leaders to Harper’s refusal to play with May that really bothered me. Instead of calling out the PM on what appeared to be a petulant stance, and refusing to allow him to dictate the terms of the debate, Layton and Dion turned around and said, well, if having May means no Harper, than we’ll support the ousting of May. Why not instead invite Harper to make good on his threat and bow out. Have the debate without him. I’d be interested to know whether Harper would ultimately be willing to take this particular issue that far. And if so, why? Certainly not because she’s a girl.

By: The Count

The Count — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:23:33 +0000

Well put, Anne. The strange thing about the “those won’t let me in because I’m a girl” line is not only that it’s innaccurate, but also that it directly undermines the far more appealing “they won’t let me in because I’m a threat” narrative, which speaks to May’s gravitas, credibility, and competence – the very image she needs to cultivate if she ever wants to be elected.

Personally, I think Harper is particularly worried because giving May all that national attention may make things difficult for MacKay in Central Nova. The riding is solidly his, but if the idea that she’s on the level with the other leaders seeps into the public consciousness, that could conceivably change. But what do I know, if there’s one thing I’ve been reminded of a thousand times in the past two days, it’s that we’re all just playing checkers against that wily chess master…