Comments on: New Brunswick Tory’s Comment was Sexist

By: Martin Street

Martin Street — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:26:31 +0000

I agree that Urquhart was needlessly sexist, using a 1940′s mode of speech for a twenty-first century audience. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that he doesn’t spend a lot of time trying to argue his ideas online, where he long ago would have learned to pre-emptively censor his language to remove terms and phrases that anyone with such experience would redact from their informal language long before hitting the publish button. But some how, even experienced politicians with armies of PR staff seem to fall into these traps every day.

I agree with Jason’s sentiment, but I would use the formulation, “People, we need to…”. But then you sound like Jacques Parizeau, so maybe the whole idea should be defenestrated. Doesn’t change the fact that government spending is based on a pyramid model that is unsustainable if the pyramid becomes inverted. When the sexism tempest in a teapot subsides that real problem will still persist.

(By the way Jonathan, I was away for the last week and have finally got around to continuing our previous two discussion threads, if you’re still interested.)

By: Jonathan McLeod

Jonathan McLeod — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:29:21 +0000

Jason,

That’s a nice straw man you’ve got there. If you’d like to discuss what Mr. Urquhart actually said, let me know.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:39:46 +0000

OMG. Offensive? If he’d gone so far as to say, “‘men and women’ we need more babies or we will never be able to support our future.” , some feminist would have joined the fray and complained that the inclusion of men in the decision was robbing women of their sole right to self determination over their own bodies!

This is political correctness to the extreme. The man has nothing to apologise for.

By: Jonathan McLeod

Jonathan McLeod — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:05:05 +0000

I’d say people from New Brunswick, the National Post, and, well, that may be it.

By: Sideshow Bob

Sideshow Bob — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:52:07 +0000

Who cares what an MLA from NB writes on his facebook page?