Margaret Wente thinks women complain too much on Dec. 6, the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. From Wente’s lofty perch she declares those who attach any lesson in equality to the day to be part of a “death cult.” If you don’t mind reading the Globe and Mail website with vomit in your mouth, you can catch her story here.
After cleaning up my keyboard, I posted the following reply:
Dear Margaret,
If someone left of centre says black then you say white. Your predictability is only exceeded by your unoriginality. If only that were your greatest sin.
Worse, you present contradictions as logic, arming the hateful with nonsense stamped with the authority of a Globe and Mail columnist’s byline. In one breath you take exception to women in Canada being portrayed as victims and in the very next you take up the banner for victimized men. Please tell me: shall we pity their higher average salaries or the fact that they are almost never the victims of spousal abuse? Oh the dilemma!
What sickens me most however is how you have baited so many misogynists in to making guttural noises against women in this comment thread. “The day has been hijacked by feminists!” declares one such low life. Indeed, this day, a day on which 14 women were gunned down by a lunatic who believed a movement of women interested in equal treatment was plotting against him, has been “hijacked” by feminists. You have inspired a misogyny that equates feminism with terrorism.
Congratulations, Ms. Wente.
For the record I do have a penis, but I don’t hate myself for it and nor do I ignore that, statistically speaking, my anatomical make-up has conferred advantages to me that women do not enjoy. I don’t personally carry a burden of guilt because of these facts, but also recognize that I enjoy certain unfair advantages, and that despite the many steps we have taken towards equal treatment of people regardless of their sex, the playing field still needs to be leveled considerably more.
