Sexist McGuinty Liberals throwing mud again

This really is pathetic, especially in light of McGuinty's attempt to get more women as Liberal candidates. He should speak out about this and sat his party doesn't want help from people who make sexist remarks if he wants his pledge to be taken seriously.

I'm not sure how the idea that one of the most boring things a woman can do is baking cookies is sexist.

That's how I took it too. I see where it could be problematic, but I have to admit, I laughed at the cartoon as a whole. Looks like Kinsella's on a campaign to try and get pictures of as many of the Ontario Tories with hard-right so-cons as possible.

Sounds good to me. The thought of another "Common Sense Revolution" is terrifying.

Kinsella's Yvette moment, perhaps?

Certainly doesn't help that he says he only took the picture down because his wife told him to. [img]rolleyes.gif" border="0[/img]

[ 03 October 2007: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]

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I could equivocate, I suppose. I could be a spin doctor, and query whether the media organizations which have assigned reporters to the story (the Globe, the Star and the Sun) did so because of my ongoing freelance column gig (media critic at the National Post). Or I could suggest that Cheri di Novo’s outrage relates to the fact that I loudly opposed the political candidacy of a person who had actually smuggled drugs in Bibles (which I did, and still do). Or I could wonder why Lisa MacLeod is upset about what I said, but not at all about her fellow Conservative candidate, Randy Hillier, who opposes support for “Quebec, Native, Arts, Homosexual, Urban and Multi cultures” (that’s what he said). Or I could point out that I have columnized against violent pornography, and anti-women movies, and the terrible prostitution ads found at the back of a certain Toronto media organization’s entertainment weekly (they know who they are). Or I could quote one of my editors at the Post, who emailed this to me an hour ago, when I gave him a head’s-up that I would be a media football tomorrow in the competition: “Kinsella a sexist? Honestly Warren it is beyond absurd. I don't think anyone who knows you would ever believe such tripe.”

Or, you know, I could give some other excuse. But I won’t.

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But you just did [img]rolleyes.gif" border="0[/img]

If he'd actually just apologized without the huge "I could... but I won't even though I just did" prologue his apology might actually look sincere. Instead it's grudging, resentful, whinging, defensive and more than a little pathetic.

Maybe he should have let his wife write it for him?

[ 24 July 2007: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]

He made some good points in that paragraph, Mycroft. Ones I thought of too.

I just can't get past the fact that many supporters of the party she's joined would love to see her in the kitchen, barefoot, pregnant and making cookies where she supposedly belongs.

I'm going to take a wild guess, that she's "not a feminist, but..."

But you're right. It's sexist commentary, and progressives shouldn't be engaging in it. Although my reaction to it is on par with how I'd react if I saw a photo of Phyllis Schlafly speaking at a podium, with a thought-bubble coming out of her head saying, "Gee, I should be at home baking cookies." Because that's what Schlafly preaches for other women.

And that's what social conservatives preach for women too, and that's the company Lisa McLeod is keeping, and those are the type of men she is propping up.

Hm, Kinsella and Raymaker are both bigwigs at "Daisy Consulting".

The question has to be asked. With Daisy Consulting going to bat for the McGuinty Liberals, how can they possibly win?

Perhaps the way to bring down the Harper Tories is to convince them to hire Daisy?

Is the media on it? This should result in demands that the McGuinty Liberals cut themselves off from Daisy - heck Liberal members should be demanding that if they want to avoid any more embarrassment - Kinsella and his entourage are a political train wreck.