AS - Friday, October 19, 1984 - North Shore News

ive me REAL women!

OME PEOPLE

seem to

think there 1s

something strange about me. They’re not say -
ing i’m oa tary, but that I’m anti-woman.

When oo this
teached my sensitive cars ft
was icredulous, and felt like
offering fisticuffs But then it
turned out that those
Spreading such talse news
were ol the female gender,
and no gentleman wants to
put his mutts up to a fads,
even it she gin’t really a lads
There are limits to
Opportunities

Let me state it straight |
hhe women Especially when
they're real women and not
howling harpies Stoularts. |
hke omen, especially when
thes aren't wearing
pantyhose

History is replete with
women whom men could
tollow —for sea, for politics,
or for both

Cleopatra, for instance.

Boadicea, for instance

Boadicea was the lady who
walloped the Roman legions
until She was walloped herself
in the last battle in which the
Bnush wore woad. And
legend has it that she looked
spitty, flying along in a
chariot and waving a sword.

report fiist

equal

her Closest tEricnds have been
murdered already But she
doesn’t fun for cover

She us the best man in Bri
tain A female Churchill
Andit [had avote to give her

get this

Doug Collins

these parts She didn’t vet the
nomination, dammit) But she
should have The lady's a
whiz and always pets my vote
for sshoolboutd

Mary Collins was easily the
best candidate on parade
when the Lory nomination
was held

Mostot the women tn local

and national politics are
worth them salt They have
competed in the market

place and worn

Now let me tell vou what |
don't like

I don't bkhe it when women
get jobs simply fecause
they're women. I'm against
favoritism. particularly,
When tts given fanes names
like affirmative action

You only have to look al
the CBC National News to
see what | mean. It vou'’se
got a big chest, nice teeth and
a good hair-do, yvou’re in) As
I’ve said before, my wander-
ings in the media woods show
me that male CBC reporters
are becoming searcer than the
black- backed three-toed
woodpecker But that's not

to say thal women in the
media can't be as good as
men Barbara Amiel of

Maclean's Magazine is one of

EE mailbox |<| is

WV ratepayer group lauded

Dear Editor

The Ambleside and Dun
darave tntill Study was writ:
ten by statlt as a result of a
resoniny application because
Council felt that betore con-
Sidering individual applica
Hons for rezoning, we should
look at the whole atea and
gel input from the people in
the whole area The A P¢
Passed a motion to the same
effect

P did not tke the report
and together with Adderman
Brokenshire expressed omy
reservations on each and
every Occasion, urging the
ratepayers lo take an interest
nat, Decause i would affect
them to a great extent It was
put out to the public wuth the
promise by the Mayor that
there would be a public
meeting

However. in April betore
the publig had the opportum.

ty to formally provide their
input, the Mayor, without
consultahion, suggested ne
action be taken at this time 7
Niy concerns tyo-fold first
Ino it may eet reactivated at a
later date and secondly.
without any decision having
been made as to approval oF
reyection of the recommenda
tions, we dre proceeding to
consider individual oo rezon
INBS.

The Ambleside Ratepaver
proup which you maligned
has done an excellent job ot
intorming the people in thei
area of the proposals in the
Study and vetting their reac-
tion. These have been etti-
crently compiled with photo-
graphs of structures and they
were quite right in wishing to

present them findings to
Council However. their
report was only handed out

at the meeting and as |

They can be as nutty as
they like, of course, provided
I'm not paying to keep them
in business. Who

some dumb, untriendly ones
making rude noises. I par-
acularly like a group calling

believe the Ratepayer group
deserves the courtesy of hav-
ing Council read their report
and react to it in public, it
was Me. Nol thes, who re
quested that the subject be
put on the agenda at a later
meeting

Your accusation otf
pohtical motivation on the
part of the Ratepayers is
regrettable and does a dis-
service to people such as their
President, who you named
and who isin fact to be com-
mended tor being public
spirited and taking a con-
Structive interest in
Municipal affairs.
Doreen Blackburn
Alderman
West Vancouver

CORRECTION

On Oct Sth &
1984 The

14th,
Bank of

British Columbia
advertisement in

the

wants to themselves Real Women of

Margaret Thatcher, for the best writers in Canada subsidize nonsense hke the Canada. And they seem to North Shore News
Instance. she’d get it. 1 don't tike state- tollowing which appeared in like me, since they have asked should have read 11%

Last week, aS you may Believe it or not, 1 fre- subsidized groups who clavn one of the NSWC~ meto become a member. Not We regret any in-
have heard, some hen-— quently vote for women. Not to represent women. Those newsletters? being a woman, real or other- convenience caused
hearted creatures mas- because they’re women but include the North Shore “We are raped because we wise, I have unfortunately by this error
querading as men came _ because they're better than Women’s Centre, the Van- live in a society that tolerates, had to decline. More on them y
within two minutes of blow- — their male opponents couver Status of Women, perhaps even encourages later, perhaps.
ing her to Kingdom Come. A Margo Furk of West Van, Media Watch, and their rape.”
few hours later she was back for instance. related left-wing and tre- Enough of that. Women
fighting. Her life is on the ] was one of those who quently nutty accomplices — are not the less intelligent and
line every day, and several of

urged her to run for MLA in

across the country

triendly because

there are

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