Thucydides said:Maybe we should just start singing "The Maple Leaf Forever" instead...
Inky said:Only if we use the original Lyrics. The updated version is terrible.
As far as Robinson is concerned, that pride is both false and rooted in ignorance. “I take great exception to people who don’t want wording changes (to the anthem),” said the former deputy director of women personnel for the armed forces. “They are a disgrace to this country. That anthem has to be changed.”
Ritchie, like Robinson, argues that to dismiss concerns about the inclusiveness of the lyrics in the national anthem is to ignore not only their symbolic significance but also their psychological resonance. As it is, they said, O Canada effectively perpetuates attitudes that once denied women the right to vote, run for office, own property or be treated as equals in the workplace. “Until the anthem is changed, women will not be thought of as fully equal participants in the life of Canada,” said Ritchie, who spent her career as a lawyer in the federal justice department and was the first woman appointed as a federal Queen’s Counsel.
mikeninercharlie said:She's a nurse who retired from the CF almost 30 years ago. If you were to ask her, she would tell you that as a result of her fine work in NDHQ women are permitted to fly helicopters....
My thoughts exactly when I saw who was behind this. :Jimmy_D said:Not this shit again
Journeyman said:My thoughts exactly
Strike said:buying girls Barbie dolls and boys matchbox cars
PMedMoe said:Should have had my parents. I had Matchbox cars and Tonka trucks as a kid. :nod:
Strike said:I had My Little Ponie and my neighbour had G.I. Joes. We would have cavalry battles. ;D
PMedMoe said:Should have had my parents. I had Matchbox cars and Tonka trucks as a kid. :nod:
milnews.ca said:Necrothread revived with the latest - more calls for the same....Postmedia News, 9 Nov 11
PMedMoe said:Should have had my parents. I had Matchbox cars and Tonka trucks as a kid. :nod:
Strike said:I had My Little Ponie and my neighbour had G.I. Joes. We would have cavalry battles. ;D
Strike said:I'm pretty sure changing the lyrics in the national anthem won't change a nation's beliefs. Women will always be seen as different until such time as parents stop placing gender specific colours on babies, buying girls Barbie dolls and boys matchbox cars and women stop putting false expectations on themselves that they have to work twice as hard as men to get half the recognition.
:rofl:recceguy said:I had a bag of dead batteries with a note attached saying 'Toy Not Included'
Strike said:I'm pretty sure changing the lyrics in the national anthem won't change a nation's beliefs. Women will always be seen as different until such time as parents stop placing gender specific colours on babies, buying girls Barbie dolls and boys matchbox cars and women stop putting false expectations on themselves that they have to work twice as hard as men to get half the recognition.