12 June 2009

NDP and International Womens' Rights? Only if there are votes in it, innit?

So I was perusing my favourite authoritative newspaper today, and therein was a little ditty about MuammarGaddafi, just a Libyan Dic doin' the best he can.

It would seem that "Gaddy" likes his bodyguards with more than just the usual muscular bumps. He likes them with estrogen. Not only that, he insists that they be virgins. Now isn't that spayshul?

As the NOW points out, "The all female bodyguards, along with their khaki uniforms and red berets, wear lipstick, jewellery, and even high heels - but are trained in armed combat.

All 40 guards are virgins, and he insists they remain so."

So this must be a dilemma for the lefty feminists of the NDP and other such parties (whatever they are). On the one hand, these women aren't being treated like chattel, which the NDP never protests anyway, so they can breathe a sigh of relief over that one - nothing to see here folks; yet, on the other hand, they are dressed like virginistic securo-totty, which would enrage the feministas if it were to happen here.

But there's the rub: it's not happening here, there are no votes in it, and most of all the RIGHT tends to be anti-Gaddafi - so there you have it.

Who in the Canadian media will notice this?

Nooobody!