tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post4044888779579878520..comments2009-04-09T19:06:51.409-04:00Ben Burdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372169478978720740ben@eagle.caBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-16408441679176456762009-04-04T13:33:00.000-04:002009-04-04T13:33:00.000-04:00You catch on quickly.Wally Keelernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-71667729401902408782009-04-03T15:25:00.000-04:002009-04-03T15:25:00.000-04:00Does this mean the seniors, lawn bowlers,and soccer players have to join the "Y"??????Dougnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-34462717065342824942009-04-03T15:04:00.000-04:002009-04-03T15:04:00.000-04:00Quite a few years ago women were chattel in The West. I&#39;m not willing to sit on my butt and wait for a few hundred years while the rest of the world reaches our civilized level in this regard.<BR/><BR/>I&#39;m considerably more proactive. I do not regard all cultures as equal. They are not. I aggressively support the liberation of women throughout the world to the level enjoyed in The West. If that tramples on cultural norns of this or that culture -- tough. <BR/><BR/>Humanity is better served, social evolution is better served with the participation of all human beings. <BR/><BR/>Retro cultures need to be actively subverted, and the better parts of Western culture proselytized more rogourously. <BR/><BR/>The West has florished, in part, because the max liberation of women. <BR/><BR/>Sorry, I&#39;m not laissez faire about abandoning women in other cultures to their fate. Hundreds of years is way too long. It is a formula of the lazy. Active programs for undermining and subverting many aspects of non-Western cultures need to be implemented now &amp; with rigourWally Keelernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-63040565081093326672009-04-02T19:41:00.000-04:002009-04-02T19:41:00.000-04:00OK so the Town and the Y cooked up the whole plan behind the backs of all of the rest of us, then sprang it on us all done and dusted, wrapped up in a big red bow.<BR/><BR/>WHY? Why the need for secrecy? What are they trying to hide? What is so special about this project that allowing regular townsfolk to participate would only spoil its specialness?<BR/><BR/>This kind of thing just makes me suspicious. There's more going on here than it looks like on the surface, that's for sure. <BR/><BR/>All theories welcome! Wild eyed as well as sensible, bring it on.<BR/><BR/>DJOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-29631478578907687202009-04-02T19:31:00.000-04:002009-04-02T19:31:00.000-04:00What surprised me in the fuss about the proposed law in Afghanistan is the rather naive view that what gets written down and passed into law makes much difference in the daily lives of the people who live there.<BR/><BR/>Making favourable, fair laws is only part of the process of achieving justice, and it seems to me it doesn't happen until the sea change in attitudes has already ocurred. The law just plays catch-up with what is actually happening on the ground.<BR/><BR/>Until not too many years ago the rules right here in Canada stated that women were property of their fathers, then husbands, and couldn't own property in their own names. We're not so far away from that kind of thinking, and methinks it will take a few hundred more years before the entire world is up to speed on that one.<BR/><BR/>DJOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com