Barbara Kay: Liberal Pink Book ignores 2009 to wallow in old battles

Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:50 PM by NP Editor

With much fanfare, the Liberal Women’s Caucus – 39 female Liberal MPs and senators - has released their 40-page Pink Book, Volume III.

Clearly a great deal of midnight oil was consumed by the Pink Book writers in agonizing lucubrations about what Canadian women really, really want from their government. Keen political social observers nearly fell over in shock at the caucus’ revolutionary recommendation that Canadian women deserve a “compassionate Canada” where women can achieve “economic and social equality.”

Throwing caution to the winds, and with supreme leaderly instincts to the fore, Michael Ignatieff reacted swiftly to the report, unequivocally endorsing the heady challenge. Having decided to – as the spin doctors say – get out ahead of the issue, Mr. Ignatieff delivered a thundering rebuke to the received notion that Conservative Party supporters want a weak, insecure future for all Canadian women, by bravely announcing that the Pink Book is “a clear statement of principle that we want a Canada that provides a strong, secure future for all Canadians.” Take that, Stephen Harper and your anti-female minions.

Barbara Kay: Boy-hating is in

Posted: October 21, 2009, 3:00 PM by NP Editor

Barbara Kay

As my first-born was a boy, I quite reasonably hoped for a girl the second time around. In my technologically antediluvian era, one discovered one’s child’s sex upon delivery. So the long gestational lull was filled with suspense and a good deal of base-covering hypocrisy: “Oh, I don’t care really, as long as it’s healthy” and “Brothers are so cute together!”

Needless to say, when informed I had produced a girl, I gave way to honest emotion and ’fessed up to great joy. I’d realized my tidy fantasy — as the old song goes, “a boy for you and a girl for me.” But had I delivered a second boy, there would still have been joy, and brothers really are cute together...

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My response to this column by Ms. Kay.

Boys will seldom encounter a male teacher in their first 8 years of education and this is not new. I note in other articles in today's paper some people in the education system are sensitive to the differences in learning capabilities between boys and girls and have plans afoot to start addressing this. That is a very good sign.

We are starting to wake up to the fact boys are falling further and further behind because of the gynocracy that rules the marketing, education, justice, divorce, media, and sundry other industries. Yes. I know there are many men leading in these industries but they follow the money or are ruled by political correctness. Western society has the opposite of some Asian cultures and that is we place far greater value on femininity than masculinity. Check on the gender discounts offered in the justice system for penalties of the same crime between men and women amongst many other differences.

In Family Law the man is replaced by the state as the father figure where judges routinely award physical custody of children to mom in a 9-1 ratio and cast dad aside as a visitor but he is necessary as a revenue spigot. As long as he pays he may get to see the children periodically (maybe 14% if he is lucky) but should mom cut him off the judge will do nothing about it. Should dad stop paying the full amount of child support because he got laid off or can't earn as much overtime then the judge and the Debtor Prison Collection agencies in each province will throw him in jail. This can occur without trial and at the whim of bureaucrats in agencies like the Orwellian named "Family Responsibility Office" in Ontario. This is the 21st century and we do throw male debtors in prison. Check to see how many females suffer the same fate.

I'm starting to write my book here about the current Matriarchal society we live in but one only has to look at the education system to view the iceberg's tip. In the USA for every 148 women getting a degree at all levels of undergrad and grad programs only 100 men do the same. The imbalance is far greater for degrees up to the Masters level. This lopsidedness in higher education has been going on for decades and is widening. Throughout history men have been gifted with inventing almost every labour saving and scientific apparatus in existence, men have saved the world from totalitarian despots and millions upon millions have died for it, yet it is still women and children into the lifeboats when a disaster strikes.

The era of Lifeboat Feminism is well entrenched which affirms men are disposable and brutish oafs while females are superior - not equal superior - but ask any one of them to let men and children into the lifeboats and see what answer you get. By the way no real man would ever get into a lifeboat if a woman or child was left behind - just so you know.

Here is the break down of University Degree recipients by gender in the USA this year according to Professor Mark Perry at the University of Michigan.

Associate’s degrees: 167 for women for every 100 for men.

Bachelor’s degrees: 142 for women for every 100 for men.

Master’s degrees: 159 for women for every 100 for men.

Professional degrees: 104 for women for every 100 for men.

Doctoral degrees: 107 for women for every 100 for men.

Degrees at all levels: 148 for women for every 100 for men.

Education Department projections though 2017 show a worsening picture for men with every passing year. Christina Hoff Summers states "It is that men are quickly becoming the second sex in American education."

I would posit it is not quickly becoming so but rather it happened some time ago and is worsening.