Sunday, March 27, 2011

I Don't Think Women Should Be Allowed to Vote

It's just a bunch of "political games" anyway. Just a bunch of bull-shit, partisan crapola. Whattaya got to lose ladies?

Or so stephen harper would say, were he to elaborate on the significance of his absolute contempt for Canada's political scene and the institutions it perpetuates.

The reason I didn't make my thought experiment titled "I don't think men should blah, blah, blah" is because there's enough history of women's exclusion from the political process on top of my status as a white male to make that title seem much more ominous than the thought experiment of excluding men from the political process.

All the reasons that women would resist losing the right to vote, ... all the reasons for the suffragettes' campaigns, for the Black Civil Rights movement, for the heroism and heroinism in the Middle-East today, ... THAT'S democracy. And even if harper were sincere about his views on the allegedly low state of democratic practice, (which he isn't btw), he does nothing to advocate for genuine reforms (because he's happily part of the problem remember).

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