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Sunday, March 09, 2008
International Women's Week wrap-up
This past week was International Women's Week, and yesterday, March 8, was International Women's Day. Sure, there`s some awareness - people know that there is an International Women's Day, but I had three people let me know this week that three different days were the auspicious day, and none of them were.
So I thought to myself, with the new feminists falling so far from the tree of the original movement, demanding "equality" through pandering to women and driving it into our minds that we are inferior and can only achieve what men can achieve naturally through cheating the system, how can we revitalize awareness of this week?
Well, there's a pretty swell broad I'd like to introduce you to who really has done a lot for women's rights - her name is Lady Liberty. Yeah, that's right. Fighting for freedom might be the "red-blooded manly" thing to do, but when it comes right down to it, freedom is embodied historically by a chick. So take that, men.
Really, though, there are a lot of women who don't fit into the standard view of women as passive, state-needing "natural socialists" as I read in several places while I was poking around looking for ideas for this post. One blogger tackles "Why libertarian women are so hardcore," and hypothesizes that women who love freedom have a higher "escape velocity" to break free of the social mores of womenfolk.
But really, we don't have to look far to find some women who really deserve celebrating, especially by small-government types.
There are some women who immediately jump to mind when you think of freedom or conservatism. Peter mentioned Ayn Rand, whose books have helped introduce many people to the ideas of libertarianism and conservatism, and who founded a whole philosophy on individualism, rather than following and relying on the collective.
Thatcher is another great example - she was instrumental in turning the tide on a trend of ballooning government and espousing the values of smaller government, lower taxes and freedom.
And if you're looking for symbols of success and strength, we can look at the late Benazir Bhutto, who - regardless of what you think about her time in power - was able to become President of a Muslim state before many Western countries had a female leader. While feminists might point to her as a great role model for women around the world, they seldom mention that she attained the success she did without the social programs, quotas and other systems they insist need to be in place for women to flourish.
The point is, there's no reason to wonder why a post like this is appearing on a libertarian/conservative blog, or for the reaction, "Oh no, not more feminist nonsense," when you hear "International Women's Week." Take the opportunity to think of all the great women in history who have done so much to fight for our freedoms, and who have done so much to fight the stereotype of women the "natural socialists."
If you're interested in learning about more awesome libertarian and conservative broads, check out this page on libertarian women, complete with links to sites for and by liberty ladies, and Rightgrrl!, a site for conservative and free-market loving women.
Posted by Janet Neilson on March 9, 2008 | Permalink
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Excellent post and comments Janet. My vote has always gone to M. Thatcher. She was a great leader by example and a true conservative (Tory). For me the fact that she was a woman is secondary, meaning that I admire her for what she did as opposed to her sex.
The UK has never had anyone equal to her since and I shall not bother commenting on Canada.
Posted by: Alain | 9-Mar-08 4:52:15 PM
Since Toronto Star keeps on censoring opinions that might upset feminazis and they refuse to post my comments I gouess I have to post them here.
From: Karol Karolak
To: Susan Delacourt at Toronto Star.
http://thestar.blogs.com/politics/2008/03/stand-on-bill-c.html
Dear Suzan,
Your journalistic friend Antonia Zerbisias found for herself a new friend in Ms. JJ from BC who publishes on Internet blog named “unrepentant old hippie” full of gratuitous aggression, fury, vulgarities and quite radical comments.
http://unrepentantoldhippie.blogspot.com/2008/03/let-asskicking-begin.html
http://unrepentantoldhippie.blogspot.com/2008/03/oh-oh.html
Ms. JJ from BC also posts her rather radical ideas on birth pangs blog see: http://breadnroses.ca/birthpangs/?p=90
Here is a sample of of her productions:
===International Day of the Unused Uterus===
Posted by jj on April 12th, 2007
We who strive to regulate (if not completely ban) pregnancy would like to announce that this coming Sunday is the International Day of the Unused Uterus.
For too long the Unused Uterus has been ignored, with all the attention lavished on the uterus who’s used as an incubator. It is our goal that the Unused Uterus be given the same recognition as the used uterus. The Unused Uterus isn’t just an internal organ stuffed into a woman’s body, to be abused by non-stop baby-making. She is an entity unto herself — she feels pain, she poops and pees. Don’t women coo and fuss over the Unused Uterus? Don’t women protect the Unused Uterus from invasion with things like diaphragms and foam? Don’t women pamper the Unused Uterus with more “feminine hygiene products” than women whose uteruses are constantly fetafied? This can only mean one thing: the Unused Uterus is not a blob or a clump of cells or a hunk of tissue, she is a citizen of the world, and she must have the same rights as any other citizen.
To commemorate the International Day of the Unused Uterus, there will be candlelight vigils at maternity wards around the world. Demonstrators will symbolically shut their vaginas by applying an X made of duct tape to the crotch of their pants. (Heavy denim recommended.)
Please take part in the International Day of the Unused Uterus: she is counting on you to speak up for her!
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Since it seems to me that Ms. JJ intention is to ban all pregnancies and it also seems to me that your journalistic friend Antonia Zerbisias agrees wholeheartedly with Ms. JJ on this very issue I have decided expand on this idea and I wrote the following:
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Antonia,
You wrote quote, "On Wednesday evening, the Harper government -- aided and abetted by Liberal leader Stephane Dion's inability to lead - voted to take this country one step closer to robbing women of their reproductive rights."
Do you mean to say that Canadian women in will no longer be allowed to become pregnant?? Do you mean to say that Harper's government decided to force all women to have abortions???
Antonia this is terrible, this is even worse than what Communist Government of China used to do when they had one child policy.
I know that there is this gender war in Canada and I know that women use their ability to carry pregnancy and deliver children as ultimate weapon in their quest of total domination of Canadian men.
I know that it is patently unfair to Canadian men and infertile women of Canada that they cannot get pregnant and give birth to children they would like to have. I know that Canadian men are very upset about custody rulings in Family Courts of Canada that automatically grant custody of children to women on premise that children are their personal property (extra limbs of some sort and extension of women’s bodies) but banning all women from having children just to enforce gender equality and level playing field seems to me as an extremely harsh measure.
I know that Conservatives are trying to cut government spending and such extreme measure would allow them to realise great many savings and eliminate costs of daycare, education and so on but at what cost??
Besides, how are they planning on sustaining Canadian population?? Are they going to increase immigration to Canada fivefold to over a million people a year?? What about immigrants with children are they going to be let into the country?? That would be unfair to the rest of us.
Antonia, I think that I have a better idea why not ban all abortions and enact a law that men upon providing proof of paternity will automatically get custody of children that they sired.
In this way women would be relived from having to bear full responsibility for their poor choices of sexual partners, and be free to seek better ones, nine months of pregnancy and childbirth is not that harsh punishment for a poor choice and night full of fun. Men would become much more responsible for their sexual behaviour as they would risk that a cute little baby would be delivered to their door nine months after they “scored”. Old hags that had their asses scraped so many times that they no longer are able to get pregnant will have many cute babies with uncertain parentage to choose from and adopt without spending a fortune on it and having children stolen from poor single mothers that are trying to find for themselves reason for their own existence.
All that nonsense of deadbeat dads would disappear overnight and we would scrap Family Responsibility Office and Family Courts. Divorce rates would plummet as women who truly love their children will sacrifice their freedom to find new and better partner for company of their own kids.
Antonia, this is much better deal than forced gender equality without kids, you better talk to Harper about that.
Cheers,
Karol Karolak P. Eng
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Dear Suzan, what do you think about this very important issue???
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March 06, 2008
Stand on Bill C-484 casts pall on (otherwise elegant) party
Yesterday, I got an email message from the Star's formidable columnist and blogger, Antonia Zerbisias, asking when the House of Commons would be voting on a private member's bill known as Bill C-484, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (injuring or causing the death of an unborn child while committing an offence).
Antonia, bless her, has been keeping her eyes on this bill, while the rest of us in the Ottawa bureau have been keeping focused on the other developing problems for Harper's Conservatives. There are worries out there that this bill is an opening of the door to entrenching rights of the unborn - which could reopen the abortion debate in Canada.
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Posted by: Karol Karolak | 9-Mar-08 9:20:59 PM
I love the "escape velocity" theory of why female converts to liberty are so radical. I think it also applies to reformed statist as well.
Posted by: Matthew Johnston | 9-Mar-08 11:35:40 PM
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