http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/instigator/index.html

I am contacting EVERY good feminist I know whose email address I have or can get -- and making sure that CBC hears our roar!!!!

Just a quick hint - you shouldn't cross-post the same post in more than one forum here. Your post will be seen if you choose one forum for it. I'll close the one in the media forum since this is a great feminism topic.

And I need to add, the implication of date rape in the mention of wine as a way to get BS (hey, great initials) to sleep with him. As if she can't make her own choices, and as if she, like the dude he clobbered, is just another conquest.

I also read this as perhaps if wine didn't work, clobbering her would be okay.

[ 28 September 2006: Message edited by: bigcitygal ]

But I agree with 500_Apples and Michelle, it was a cheap pun quip.....the lowest form of humour.

The cartoon would have been a lot more funny if the joke revolved around the fact no team wanted Tie Domi thus he retired and Belinda being one of the richest women in Canada. Have a take on the "sugar mommy" angle, if you will.

[ 28 September 2006: Message edited by: Lego Guy ]

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Originally posted by Il Morto Qui Parla:

Sorry if that is an unpopular opinion.

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I personnally find the cartoon offensive- it makes a female poltician look bad for nothing. It has sexism written all over it to me.

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On the bright side, this might be a sign that Belinda has gotten bored with politics and taken up a new hobby.

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I really hate it when people use sexuality to put others down- is it becasue they have no other intelligent criticism's ?So far as I can tell, Belinda Stronach is a politican, and that's that. She's been an MP for a while now, I don't believe it's a hobby. Comments like the one above are the oldest form of oppression. Remember when she switched over from the Conservative party, the comments some MP's made ? They where of the same type, equally offensive and certainly unbecoming of an MP. The word mysoginist leaps to mind. To goi further, that type of comments does not belong in a feminist forum, or in any other forum for that matter.

[ 01 October 2006: Message edited by: Pride for Red Dolores ]

There's the larger issue of female sexuality being used as a political tool, which is a dumb idea and totally useless. Notice how the liberals are making Ruby Dhalla one of their most prominent female voices. She, the former beauty queen, not associated with any policies. Meanwhile Stronach is head of the liberal women's caucus, and she too is not associated with any initiatives. Why do the liberals pick these two and not Carolyn Bennet for example? And how did Rona Ambrose become the most important and possibly only important female in Harper's inner circle? The 1990s may have seen prominence for Deborah Grey, Jane Stewart and Alexa McDonough, but that era is seemingly and unfortunately over.

The way I see it, it's irrelevent that Stronach is considered attractive by many. What is relevent is that that's the ONLY thing that almost anybody knows about her, yet we still get the impression she's a major political figure, didn't she make a global 100 ranking? She was not associated with any policies during her leadership run for the CPC other than baking a bigger economic pie, and under Martin she received the vacuous position of minister of democratic renewal.