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‘Boorish troglodytes’ will die off

Dear Editor:

‘*The times they are a’changin’..."’ But one thing that hasn’t changed much is reflected in the responses to Judy Gandossi’s letter objecting to the Sunshine Girl, as s/he has been labelled by one of the earlier editorial wits of the North Shore News.

The thing that hasn’t changed is the trivialization of a person’s feel- ings when she has been subjected to humiliation as a member of an identifiable group, and has ob- jected to it. It makes no difference if the group she belongs to is racial, economic or sexual.

The stereotypes exemplified by the Sunshine Girl are no less ob- Jectionable because they are so widespread, and no more bearable because the “‘group’’ thus iden- tified comprises fully half the world population.

But I take heart from the chang- ing times, and one lesson that was brought home to me in this past week is that sometimes you don’t have to worry about changing those boorish troglodytes who feel so smug about being the sexist misogynists that they so clearly are: like Harold Ballard, they, too, will die off.

We just have to be patient, and the times will change, even if some people don’t.

Teri Rodgers North Vancouver

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