Scotty

And yet, you clearly don't know anything about it...

There are a lot of social and cultural reasons why women often aren't willing to put the time into work men are. It isn't just that "society" expects them to have and look after kids. It's that, for many of them, they WANT to have and look after kids. That takes time away from work, and makes it very difficult to demonstrate the same dedication those idiot A type personalities do when they throw away their lives and work 14 hours days all the time...

We know from some polls, some of which have been posted previously, that a number of the Canadian Muslim population are Islamists. I have also read that younger Muslims are, in the main, more religious than their immigrant parents. Many of them wear the religious gear their parents rejected out of a political/social statement of their dedication to Allah.

How is my walking naked through a mall hurting you? It might offend you. You might find the sight of me distasteful, right?

Nitpicking doesn't address the point. You cannot walk around naked. Why does the state forbid that? Because it offends people. Right?

I've seen, read and heard enough to make an informed judgement on the lot of women in Muslim countries. But thanks for playing...

How many of them were Muslims?

Maybe if you got your judgement and wisdom out of something other than a comic book it would be better placed to actually judge behavior and opinions...

I find it appalling how utterly uneducated and ignorant so many posters on this forum are about the Nazis, about Fascism, about history, and indeed, about politics, law, economics, or society. Yet we let them post anyway!

Just because a book is translated does not mean it can be understood without wisdom or judgement.

Bullying legislation is one of those nanny state ideas thought up by people long divorced from reality. It's a feel-good waste of time, money and effort. As a columnist pointed out in the paper last week, if McGuinty really cared about doing something about bullying he'd take off the shackles he placed on teachers and administrators and let them establish discipline in the classrooms and schoolyards.

Why does the Left always equate political opinions with morality? It's like you guys assume (without thought) that anything you believe in is CLEARLY for the betterment of society, and so anyone who disagrees for any reason is morally delinquent. It's a brainless, moronic position.

It doesn't. The comparison is inane and intellectually bankrupt.

Men and women are both victims of Hollywood cliches. Yes, women are required to be hot and sexy. Men are required to be hot and macho. You don't recognize it because you don't see that all the big male stars now are "hot" and are required to perform acts of macho violence in the movies to demonstrate how incredibly tough and badass they are. It's just a different kind of sexual cliche.

If you check into the pressures on young men to be 'hot' these days, you'll find they're far higher than they used to be. They're expected to work out now, expected to have the 'right' haircut, to shave their body hair, to have the right jewelery, wear the 'right' clothes. Woe to the guy who doesn't match up on the scale.

Cyber, just because society puts a premium on woman's hotness value doesn't mean women aren't appreciated for anything else. I certainly love when a woman looks hot, but I have a number of female friends, few of them hot. You see, in the end, no matter how hot a woman is, if she can't hold a decent conversation, she and I aren't likely to be friends. And I don't think I'm that different than most men. Yes, we're lookists. Yes, we appreciate hot women. But we're also fathers, husbands, sons and brothers, and we recognize there is more to women than their looks. Btw, most young men are as obsessed with their looks as women are nowadays. The media sexualizes both genders. It's just that women are, to quote one of my female friends, simply more beautiful than men. They have more attractive bodies than men. And no, she's not the least bit into girls. She's a wife and mother of three.

The oath is important as symbolic joining into Canadian society, becoming a Canadian, and, presumably, abandoning what they were before. Is it silly? Perhaps. But perhaps all ceremonies are silly and unnecessary. Humans tend to like them, though.

The state won't let people walk around naked. Why? Why can the state dictate that without argument but not dictate wearing too much?

My boss is a man. His boss is a man. But the boss over HIM is a woman, and HER boss is another woman.

She's a manager making over $100k. She's gone up eight rungs of the ladder since being hired as a clerk about nine years ago. That's almost a promotion a year, and none of it was due to her looks. Btw, one of her bosses is a man, one a woman. The boss over THEM is a woman.

Nobody needs to ignore it, but the comparison with the lot of women in Muslim countries is silly.

Islamists don't believe in any sort of state other than an Islamic one. They don't believe in secular governments, and so will always work to undermine them.

Consumed? You know, a friend of mine put on some weight after having her two kids. She really misses being hot, she says. She misses the way men would look at her when she entered the room, and be so eager to help her with anything she wanted. Don't get the idea most women hate that men think they're attractive...

You don't see the oddity in your telling a woman she's wrong about the condition of women here? Western troops in Afghanistan called women there UMOs, Unidentified Moving Objects. Ie, objectified! That's all they were! Objects! Not people!

It's not jibber jabber to the true immigrants, who really want to be part of this country and it's culture. To them it's one of the highlights of their lives. To any who think it's meaningless jibber-jabber - go home.