HOLD THE applause please, but some of my best friends are women. However, I would get rid of the Women's Ministry over in Victoria without second thought. Penny Priddy and her gang do not a pretty sight make. If a Women's Ministry, why not a Men's? The reason we have a Women’s Ministry, of course, is that there's a war of the sexes going on to which the NDP enthusiastically sub- scribes. And never mind that both sexes arc getting hurt. Take the pregnant woman in North Van who was featured in an article in The Province. She goes to ‘work every day on the bus and no- one stands up for her. That would never have hap- pened even a few years ago. But times have changed, as the “pro- gressives” never cease reminding us. Vancouver ain’t what she used to be. Nor is the rest of the world. Almost from the time I could walk, my parents made me stand up in the bus for a lady. Or for any older person. That's the way things were. Now, most of the young are ‘slobs and many of their elders are not much better. Some would say there aren’t any ladies left, so why stand up for them? Even the word “lady” is offensive to radical feminists. Besides, a man never knows what the response will be if he does offer his seat to a woman. It’s embarrass- ing to be told “No thanks,” which really means “Screw you.” You can blame the rad-fems for Dou Collins on the 4 other hand that. Daily, men are lectured about the “equality of the sexes.” So why stand up in the bus? Why open a door for a woman? Remember, too, that the man who doesn’t stand up for a woman, whether or not she’s pregnant, may have just been turned down for a job, thanks to the “femates first” policies of government. For every action there’s a reaction. Do I have to remind you of the “sexual harassment” stuff? I have never once patted a woman’s bum in the office. Nor have I seen any- one else do so. But to listen to the professional fems you would think that every man in the working world is a raging sex maniac. Such women fall into two cate- gories: the bitch class and the les- bians. For it is strange but true that the loudest voices in the radical feminist groups are the lesbian ones. The women’s movement is riddled with them. The fellow who doesn’t stand up in the bus for a lady probably knows that. Or thinks, with Professor Doolittle, “Why can’t a woman be like a man?” It’s got so that women can now not only be like men but can be worse than men. A virtual reign of terror exists in the universities, for instance. Horse-voiced harridans complain about professors at the drop of a hat, and while there may be a few who try to take advantage of women, it’s become so danger- ous to even look at a woman that only a lunatic would try it. University administrations are cowardly and biased. That's why there arc now more female students than male. And they collapse before females who claim they have been bothered by men, so that the very threat of a complaint is enough to turn a man into a jelly. As an article in an American inagazine put it recently, “In mat- ters of sexual harassment (in the universities) established processes are totally inadequate. Like the Spanish Inquisition, they are designed to ferret out guilt and mete out punishment, not to seck truth.” The same is true of human rights commissions and other glo- ries of today’s society, especially in B.C. Anything goes, as the Biencoc case proves. A woman’s word is enough. We come back to the matter of not standing up in the bus. It is inexcusable not to give up one’s seat for a pregnant woman. Even other women should do so, if only to shame the men. But that’s where we-are at. West Van Green candidate picked WEST VANCOUVER Green Party members have nominated 44-year- old Horseshoe Bay resident ’Peggy Stortz to stand for the party in the next provincial election. . 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