Bigot Country
Well... I WAS going to blog about something NICE today to offset my Anti-Conservative entry of yesterday, but then I found this on MyBlahg:
Real Women Don't Discriminate Against Other Women
and I lost my mind.
Because that's exactly what I mean about our Conservative country and our pathetic need to ensure that bigoted organizations are recognized for their views and given lots of time and attention and consideration lest they whine about having their rights taken away because other people are having theirs recognized and then whine some more about not getting their usual prime spots in the Canadian media and on Parliament Hill to have their bigoted say on matters legislative.
Why, in Canada, in 2007, is REAL Women given a seat at the table to promote its blatant, fat-arsed, Conservative bigotry?
Sure. They're a bunch of old lady Reformers and the old men Reformers are now the New Conservative Government of Canada. And sure, we all know all Reformers are just old bigots who now call themselves New Conservatives now and who whine incessantly that they've been shut out of all the decision-making that has gone on since you couldn't beat your wife - legally - with a stick thicker'n your thumb out here in Eastern Canada. Gawd. Who'd believe those old Alberta reformers are now New Conservative Government of Canada Cabinet Ministers. Out and out, in our Central Ontario liberal, gay faces - bigots ready to clean up Ottawa of all that Big L Liberal nonsense and tomfoolery what says homos can marry and women shouldn't have as many babies as God will allow. And because they're so butt-stupid and mormon-lipped - they're prowwwwwwwd of it. (And I'm well aware that many of them hail from good ol' bigoted Ontario. No kidding. I've lived in Belleville: Off Colour Taxis Ain't no one worse that a Southeastern Ontarian waxing bigotophical on women's lip and trudope and immigration: "Bin ta Pearson lately? Ya'd hardly know you were in Canada. Looks like we imported Africa by mistake.")
And that's okay. They're allowed to be bigots. It's a free country (until they turn it into a gulag, anyway). But why are they appearing before Parliamentary Committees? Who didn't get a seat at the table because REAL Women was once again there on behalf of Unreal Women? That's what I'd like to know. Because I'm a taxpayer. And REAL Women is actively campaigning to have this backward shit-for-brains of a government bring in discriminatory legislation, to roll back legislative gains made by women and their pals - the gays - and take us back to a simpler time (for old Conservative bigots, I guess) when women had fewer rights and so did fat-arsed Conservative bigots who don't seem to care about freedom.
That's wrong. I mean, REAL Women old Reformers and their new Conservative bigot friends can think whatever fucked up thing they want to think. But I''m not sure why we're paying to host them while they promote their bigoted views. I don't care who they think they're speaking on behalf of - since they're not promoting social progress and an extension of civil and human rights for all citizens, I'm not sure why they aren't just left holding signs out on the lawn of Parliament Hill: "Roll Back Homo Rights! Less Freedom for Lady Canadians! Make (White) Babies AND (Brown) War!"
And, by the way, why is it that their views are constantly being represented in the media? Other than bigotry, what are they advocating? Taking away choices from people who aren't you isn't any kind of position that should be given any attention by anyone in a position to decide who gets airplay and who doesn't. So why is the media acting as if REAL Women deserves equal time to people who aren't bigots? Almost as if every civil rights gain must be accompanied by an equal and opposite bigoted whine from nasty old Conservative bigots who don't like other people's rights being recognized in law.
People can be bigots. No one is stopping you from believing whatever you want to believe. (Although, watch what you disbelieve if you're a German citizen or we might just deport you to Germany to teach you a lesson in REAL free speech tolerance.) But I think it's fair for non-bigoted citizens to draw the line at REAL Women having a seat at the political table when their agenda is clearly to roll back civil and human rights.
I mean, let's face it, would we tolerate the Ku Klux Klan making a submission to Parliament to the effect that only old white Conservative bigots should be allowed to make laws?
Oh. Wait a minute. I guess we would. Because the Alberta Reform Party is the New Conservative Government of Canada and it's about to be the New Conservative Government of Canada again.
As an end to this rant and a timely aside, a friend of mine used to speculate that Canadians were fooling themselves vis a vis the United States. That not only are we the same, politically - we're the same a few years later.
Well, I look at Bush the Junior and all we know to be true about him and I look at Stephen Harper and all we know to be true about him and I think: She's Right.
