A2 - Wednesday, April 27, 1983 - North Shore News

Big Sister is watching

I THINK the war of
the sexes was finished
a long time ago. It
was a stalemate, if
you'll excuse the ex-
pression.

The differences attributed

to sex are vastly exag-
gerated. At bottom, human
psyches are hike flames.

Some burn more brightly
than others. It's the intensity
of the flame, not the form it
takes, that counts.

Is there anyone left
nowadays who would
seriously suggest that men
are automatically “stronger”
than women, given that real
strength is mainly a matter of
will power?

If you don't believe me,
there’s Maggie Thatcher to
prove it. Indira Gandhi too.

I get along quite well with
most women [| meet. For one
thing, I believe in fidelity,
I'm married, and _ so
therefore I'm not a threat to
any woman in the sense that
I'm trying to make out with

her. Conversely, [Tm Mr.
Dull.
Am I liberated? Hey,

twice over! Once, from the
idea that I should hold the
door open for a lady. Se-

strictly
personal

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cond, from the idea that I
shouldn't.

Sex, of course, is a serious
matter. And sexual exploita-
tion is a crime mucho
heinous indeed. I am totally
opposed to it. I swear.

Still, sometimes it’s hard
telling who is_ exploiting
whom and for how much.
Are there victims without

crimes? Are chauvinists
necessarily male?
In my studies I have

observed that in human
mating practices, it is usually
the female who chooses the
male, then beguiles him into
thinking that he has made
the choice.

I might be wrong about
this, but it does seem to me
that women don't do too
badly when it comes to

holding their own. Quite

often I see groups of them:

laughing among themselves.
They must have something
to laugh about.

I mean, life can’t be totally
a matter of being oppressed
by males, can it? Surely
there are moments when
other things happen.

Nevertheless, I'm a
devoted feminist who thinks
Norman Mailer was quite
hysterical when he equated
the women’s movement with
totalitarianism. There’s
nothing inherently evil in the
idea of equal pay for equal
work just as long as the work
is actually equal.

Accordingly, I should
have been delighted to read
in the papers that an old
friend of mine, Sylvia Spr-

Marine Dr. bus to continue

FROM PAGE A1

In summary, Horseshoe
Bay gets a new No. 257 Ex-
press which will leave the
ferry terminal at 6:55 and
7:35 am every weekday mor-
ning travelling via the Upper
Levels Highway and arriving
in downtown Vancouver at
7:40 and 8:40 am respective-
ly

The return express leaves
downtown Vancouver at
4:35 and 5 35 and arrives at
the ferry terminal at 5.18 and
618 pm respectively. The
buses are timed tn particular

for Bowen Island com.
muters
The regular Horseshoe

Bay run via Manne Dnve
will continue

The 251 Upper
Levels ‘Queens and 252 In
glewood buses maintain
their regular routes cxceptin

the evenings when the buses
will continue to Park Royal.

On the 253 Cypress Park
route two weekday evening
tnps have been added. The

254 British Properties run
will have trips directly to and
from downtown Vancouver
in peak hours.

The 250 Dundarave route
replaces the West Bay route.

Housing boom costly

DRASTIC INCREASES in
building permit applications
in North Vancouver District
has forced drastic measures

as council approved
$1,500 worth of staff over-
lume to cope with the

growing paperwork back.
logs.

According to a building
department letter to council,
the surge of house con
struction spurred by lower
imterest rates and govern
ment incentive Money lo

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building department - staff
“trying to cope with (about a
22 per cent increase) in all
permit application
categomes and a 98.5 per
cent increase in residential
permit apphcations.”

Council conceded = the
needs for = staff overtime
especially since its the

contractors who could stand
to lose the $3,000 offered by
the Canadian Home
Stumulathon Plan if house
footings are not in place by
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ing, has received a $50,000
grant from Ottawa to
monitor the media for any
signs of “sexist content”.

One thing’s for sure,
Sylvia’s going to be a busy
girl — oops, did I say that? A
thousand pardons. My God,
now I'll be in the file.

I trust that female sexism

PLEASE GIVE FROM THE HEART

will be monitored equally B.C. HEART
with male sexism. FOUNDATION
References to men as

“hunks” when there is no
mention af perogies will be
duly recorded. And I trust a
report or two will be devoted
to the plight of Bruno
Gerussi as a sex object.

I understand perfectly that
governments like to monitor
the media. All governments,

BATHROOMS BEAUTIFUL

even those that are the
media.
But it takes the breath

away to learn that the feds
are actually funding a
domestic spy network to see
whether us news types have
the correct sex attitudes or
not.

It might be with 1984 com-
ing up I'm paranoid. But |

can't escape this nagging
feeling:
BIG SISTER IS
WATCHING

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