Ahhhh, the neverending saga between propaganda and facts. Where there is overwhelming professional and scientific support on one side – and a handful of misogynistic fuckwads on the other, determined to keep women at home with the children they damn well better be having.
And no, I’m not (just) talking about Plan B! This also applies to recent decision to keep Women’s Ski Jumping out of the Olympics. Nevermind that the sport meets all other Olympic-qualifying regs and professionals around the world support the inclusion. Those minute details pale in comparison to some random dude’s opinion that such activity is “not good for the ladies.” Tell me, oh wise one, what exact medical school did you get your degree from (and in what century)? On what studies of the long-term female physiological response to ski-jumping did you base this oppressive paternalistic protective diagnosis?
So much for Canada being my Northern Liberal Utopian Ideal.
This pissed me off SO MUCH. This sort of thing used to be said in the forties – the whole delicate constitution of the ladies, thing, code for “But they have baybeez!” I truly thought we were past that.
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