8 - Wednesday, May 29, 1985 - North Shore News There’s this report written by scratch-heads in the Department of National Defence, you see, in which it is claimed that women wouldn’t exactly be the right types for front line service. They haven't got the right body build, it says. Or phys- ical staying’ power. And there’s the likelihood that ° the guys and dolls would be kissing instead of killing. As far as body build is concerned, it depends on who you're talking about. It: can be argued, for - in- Stance, that the Second World. War would have been - over much sooner. if ‘Betty - Grable had been up front in- stead of cavorting around on the screen with a bunch of draft. dodgers. There’s nothing, like a case of the hots for. getting. males into action.- . On th other hand, as: they say..-in ‘editorials, some women would: scare the hell out: of the ‘enemy: just by looking ‘at. them..-As . the Great Duke ‘(of Wellington) . said of the British troops .ing . around by Doug Collins Fighting fair HAT? WOMEN aren’t suitable for com- bat duties in the armed forces?! Pop- pycock! Of course they are! Get in there, girls, before I run out of exclamation marks! just before the battle of Waterloo, “By God, sir, I don’t know what they'll do to the French, but they frighten the life out of me!’’ Some ladies would have affrighted the very casques at Agincourt. I was careful _to stay out of harm’s way, for instance, when all those hairy-chested loggers posing as women were parading outside the TV station in protest against little old harmless me. 1! had been foolish enough to say with a smile that if women wanted to be equal with men in all things, they should get themselves to the front in any future war,-where they could be taped by the Rus- sians. . The wenches of whom I speak wouid have done very well on the beaches of Nor- mandy. Or at Dieppe. The -Jerries would have taken off like rabbits, instead of stick- to shoot our cheps- down like rabbits. ‘Yes, using those gals in the attack would definitely diminish the death rate. Come to think of it, it’s Delbrook subdivi sion rejected CONCERNS about an“ in- crease: in. density prompted. North . “Vancouver District Council to reject a subdivi- sion application. es Council had been asked to approve a _fubdivision ” ap- plication "for. lot.. on Delbrook Ave: The proposal would see~the creation of two panhandle lots and one fronting Delbrook. ©. A poll by council: showed five of six neighbors oppos- ed.to the three-lot. subdivi- sion but agreeable to a two- lot subdvision. Ald. Joan Gadsby said she could not “support the ap- ANNUAL May 30-June 1st 10:00am-6:00om ()% OFF Bonsai “plication. ““An increase in (population) density would be out of character with the neighborhood,’’ she said. Gadsby pointed out that the . residents were opposed to the three-lot proposal. Council rejected the ap- plication 6-1 with McMinn opposed at a policy and planning committee meeting May 27. In a report to council, -G.D. Carlson, Asst. Director of Engineering Services, said the subdivider could apply for a two-lot subdivision which could be approved -without further reference to council. pots and tools F angle 1603 LONSDALE AVE., N. VAN 987-6543 downright discouraging to fearn there are still pockets of male chauvinism left in places like the Department of National Defence. I thought they’d ‘all been cleaned out long ago. It was in 1981, 1 think, that they appointed a woman with a degree in French literature as head _ of strategy studies. Progress of that sort is being made all the time. Much remains to be done, though, if we are to benefit fully from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and it is to be hoped that that old warrior Erik Nielsen sees the light as quickly as possible. He would have to admit that it would have been very nice to have had a couple of Bet- see ty Grables along to keep him warm on those raids over Berlin. For in those days, J hear, pilots frequently had their what’'s-it frozen off, even though the flak was hot. Anyway, we can’t have DND men putting out anti- fem propaganda of this sort: “The collective profes- sional judgment of the leadership of the Canadian forces is that its combat ef- fectiveness could weil be jeopardized if women were employed in comhat roles.”’ Haye those fools never heard of Boadecia, Joan of Are (especially as played by Ingrid Bergman), or Maggie Thatcher? Have they forgot- ten that Patty Hearst joined the equal-opportunities Symbonese Nationa) Army after being raped by them? Didn't that perfectly nice lit- tle ‘rich girl turn into a perfectiy nice little bank robber? It is true that men can’t give birth to babies. But they can sure as hell make way for women in war. 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