42 Replies to “An Open Letter”

  2. So now the ‘committed femi-nazi’ begins to question her biology after the delivery of her child and begins to dispense unsolicited advice to the Justice Ministers wife on how to get dad to change some nappies.
    How quaint…most committed fathers also know how to pick up the vacuum cleaner, scrub the toilets, wash the dishes, change the bed linens, set up the BBQ, fix the plumbing leak, change the dishwasher motor, rewire the chandelier, and change the oil for their vehicle.
    Oh surprise surprise not all men are machines looking to ‘rutting season’; sporting a beer on the couch, in front of the big screen, watching the World Cup.
    Well Leah, maybe it’s not all about YOU…
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  4. Couldn’t read her whole column, got sickened by her sneering tone at sentence two,so am glad someone else had the fortitude to read that piece of award-winning journalism.
    Thanks Kate,and damned good reply!

  5. I could only read a few lines of this insufferable b—-‘s letter. The patronising, smug tones and adolescent jargon were too much for me.
    Put Nazanin and this cow in an octagon cage and let what will happen happen.

  6. Yep…and if I hadn’t come here I still wouldn’t have heard of her.
    So the takeaway from this is her only claim to fame is a popular conservative blogger thinks she’s a moron.
    That reminds me of a story…
    It seems that when he was alive, John Wayne liked to come up to BC to go fishing, and he kept a yacht for just that purpose.
    Anyway there was a rumor on the coast that he was abroad his yacht and heading up the Inside Passage towards Prince Rupert. So one of the local yahoos went charging off in his runabout in search of the Duke. Anyway he found him and proceeded to roar in circles around the Duke’s yacht, generally making an annoying ass of himself, until finally the Duke stepped out of the wheelhouse and called down to him “look you…why don’t you f*** off now?”. So our yahoo immediately went roaring back to Rupert and into the nearest bar, all full of boast and swagger about how the Duke told him to f*** off.
    Just like our yahoo, it seems that there are a great many leftist idiots out there whose only only claim to fame is they’ve managed to make a nuisance of themselves sufficient enough to provoke an angry response.

  7. Isn’t she the dumbass who wrote a “column” which was really just an advert for her selling her house?

  10. Quaint indeed. I know a great many men who, if they didn’t do most of the housework, would have never gotten it done. Leah McLaren = just another entitled, faux-smart princess.

  11. This faux scandal should be put in the same place as the media’s frenzy over Harper’s Wafer-gate scandal…the diaper genie. That wafer-gate ‘scandal’ being the one where I stopped taking the media serious when it came to reporting on Canadian politics.
    IMO, this isn’t a “women’s community” thing; it’s just the same old “Get Harper and the Conservatives” thing. That being said, MacKay does not seem to be very smart when in comes to political messaging. Perhaps he should learn to stick to his knitting, too.
    To modify Kate’s Twitter message – neither the progressive feminists or the religious right speaks for me on women’s issues. Both say really stupid things that women such as myself and my peer group, individuals who have no interest in the culture wars, cannot identify with.

  12. “neither the progressive feminists or the religious right speaks for me on women’s issues”
    The real religious right doesn’t speak to ‘women’s issues’, politically speaking.
    They speak to human issues.
    Dividing men and women into two separate identity groups and pitting them against each other for political purposes is a Leftist thing.
    Identity politics is a Leftist divide and conquer tactic at which they excel.
    There are even people who don’t consider themselves Leftists who think that “women’s issues” are about them instead of advancing the Leftist ideological agenda.

  13. From one of the comments: My wife was forced to carry our child.
    Who forced her, moron.

  15. What a stupid thing to say.
    How does the human race propagate itself?
    Typical leftists- can’t even say the word “science” without grinding their teeth.

  16. …that women such as myself and my peer group

    So they’ve lost the stupid kunt vote.

  17. I remember seeing John Wayne’s yacht in Georgia Strait, off Bowen Island. It was an ex-minesweeper, and was named the Grey Goose, if memory serves me right.

  18. No, the religious right has a very vocal wing that dislikes women. Admit it or not, there’s a long tradition of misogyny in most religions and one of the main battles in the culture wars was women’s rights. Christianity is better than most religions but they’re still not as tolerant as secular classical liberals and libertarians. For instance, in my experience even non-feminist women commenters are unwelcome and/or chased off conservative blogs. Enforced conformity is not just a progressive trait.

  19. Max’s response is an extreme but not rare example of the garbage female commenters get from conservative blogs. It’s revealing that the “I like and respect women” crowd around here almost never tell max that his comments are immature and unappreciated. I must therefore assume that it is because you agree or don’t really respect women enough to call him out.

  20. Constant playing the victim is an ugly form of passive aggressive behavior.
    You want to be a victim?
    Try being a white male Protestant these days. Apparently me and my sons are responsible for all the world’s ills.

  23. She was named Wild Goose and was huge. Wayne docked her in Victoria on his way into Georgia Strait. Grey Goose is an overrated vodka much as Leah is an overrated columnist. I have met Mr. McKay and he is a very nice man who has served our country well. He may occasionally pen an ill worded memo. I have not met Leah and do not want to. She always pens absolute drivel and is part of the reason I haven’t read the Mop and Pail in twenty years, though I do like their crossword which I get for free off the internet.

  24. “Admit it or not, there’s a long tradition of misogyny in most religions and one of the main battles in the culture wars was women’s rights.”
    Culture wars, eh? Spoken like a true Leftist.
    “It’s revealing that the “I like and respect women” crowd around here almost never tell max that his comments are immature and unappreciated. I must therefore assume that it is because you agree or don’t really respect women enough to call him out.”
    Max wasn’t talking about women, he was talking about you. Why is it with your type that it’s all about you until you need to represent yourself as “all women”?
    Are some women cunning stunts? Yes.
    Ok, so maybe max should have said, “So they’ve lost the vagina vote.”
    There, much better, eh? Even has some alliteration. Very mature. Poetic even.

  25. It’s hard for you to see my “not all women are stupid kunts, but stupid kunts like LC Bennett are always women” T-shirt in the comments section here. And Kate (who I’m pretty sure is a woman, incidentally) can ask me to leave anytime and I’ll leave.

  26. I think we can can the “religious right” crap. Aside from leftists, who buys it anymore? Do you honestly believe that a handful of evangelical Christians are the biggest impediments or nuisances to women in this country? People like Leah McLaren and the Shafias fit those bills to a T.

  28. I did notice that her Tweet that Kate referenced has her gratuitously dropping the “F”-bomb in the tweet. This blog is getting really racy, edgy even.
    Probably her pain meds speaking there. Hope it doesn’t affect her chances to be appointed to the senate.

  29. Gee LC, next time these blathering idiots in here are ragging on sum extreme lefty, point out that they are Jewish:-)))))
    Hey Ooz, yer the idiot who didn’t even know how to throw out a bloody couch, so you ain’t in much of a position to be critical of any one, just saying!
    and those in here quacking about John Wayne, he was gay and dragging his name in here may just upset some of the religious rite gay bashers!!!!

  30. No, the religious right tends to see women as they act now: exceptionally large children. May I point you to Ms. Leah McLaren to see exactly what I mean. Amanda Marcotte and Jessica Valenti as secondary exhibits.

  31. If I threw the couch in a ditch, and I’m not saying I did, I would have washed the blood out of it first, if it was soaked in blood, which it wasn’t./

  32. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, In 10 years I don’t think I have ever seen you that mad Kate. Carry On. 😉

  33. John Wayne, married 3 times, had some kids, had a few affairs with women, and didn’t care what people did in their bedrooms. But no actual evidence of being gay.

  34. Gay rights activists will eventually claim that anybody who was ever anybody was gay.
    When they get to Gordie Howe,I intend to go postal on these fist-f***ers. (by which I mean I will write them nasty letters which I will send by snail mail)

  35. damn it dmorris, I’m never going to be anybody…
    Nazanin Afshin-Jam Mackay’s response is outstanding, and comprehensive.
    I applaud her.

  37. I’m not just sure what some of your other respondents find offensive about your original comment. Other than suggesting that the criticisms of Mr. MacKay are bottom-of-the-barrel petty nonsense and appear to be mostly contrived (why else would the lawyers’ group have an objection to providing a recording or a transcript of Mr. MacKay’s remarks?), I’d say your comment makes a lot of sense.
    And it makes even more sense when you consider that the Harper government’s next major initiative will be income-splitting for families with children under the age of 18. Quite apart from it being targeted directly at the “middle-class” (or middle-income-earning families, or whatever), income-splitting explicitly promotes a model of family living and child-rearing that feminists and leftists categorically reject. In addition, the income-splitting proposal also goes against the leftist fetish for government-run social arrangements and programs: rather than universal day-care, the income-splitting proposal is an extension of Harper’s efforts to increase household disposable income and to strengthen families (recall 2006 — “I know millions of experts, and their names are mom and dad.”)
    So, yeah, this is a “culture wars” thing intended to “get Harper and the Conservatives”. The criticism of Mr. MacKay seems to me to be nothing more than battle space preparation (which Paul Martin did not do in 2006) in anticipation of the 2015 election, probably cooked-up between the media players involved, Mr. Trudeau’s genius advisors (guffaw) and some partisans in the legal community. Actually, there must be some nervousness there — it certainly appears that the federal budget will be balanced this year and that the Conservatives appear united on bringing this thing in (despite previous media efforts to conjure up divisions in the government on the issue).
    And to your point about the “religious right” not speaking for you, I think that’s the crux of what this is about — it’s designed to make the Conservatives look like a bunch of “religious rightists”, or at least a bunch of throwback reactionaries who want to see women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. So, you try to discredit Conservative policy by making the Conservatives look like folks who do not speak for “today’s women” and their families. Sort of like Joe Biden to the NAACP (I think it was) in 2012: “They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.”
    And I agree with Marc in Calgary’s characterization of Mrs. MacKay’s reponse — I particularly liked the National Enquirer-TMZ poke.

  38. Well, maybe he didn’t say it or at least link it to judicial applications, but I think there is a special bond between mothers and children. If nothing else, breastfeeding over months or years certainly is special!

  39. WOW.Just effing WOW.First off,I do not or would not know Kate if she came up to me tomorrow and smacked me with her cane(or ran over my feet with her wheel chair),however,sincere congrats on telling it like it is.And sorry to hear about your hip :(.
    LC Bennett…yes. What max said was rude,crude,and sociallably unacceptable.However,that is the way the truth is sometimes. Remember,it was not directed at women,but at you. I have no idea on other’s feelings,but when I am on this site,I represent only ONE person,myself. I do not or cannot speak for every guy on here,or any vets on here,or the gay couple I know next door.Just me. However,IMHO getting back to the truth, being told(even if RC&SUA),that is one problem.I am tired of having the left turning the telling of the truth made a social sin.When it gets to the point where I am afraid to tell the truth,and call out the BSers,then please take me out back of the wood shed and beat me with a clue bat.What happens to max is not my descion.Not my blog. And yes this reply is late,but I am totally worn out from watching my nearest and dearest chase our 3 grandaughters around after getting home from work :):) (and I do know how to change diapers and even how to put one safely to sleep in a bureau drawer as we had know crib for her at the time)
    Cheers

  40. This tempest in a teapot is little more than an attempt by the progressives to either outright defeat the government or at least shame the government into appointing more femminazis to the bench.

  41. Well said David.
    It is funny how the 5% of the population that is evangelical Christian gets blamed for everything. Most of the rest of the churches have become Marxists at prayer.
    The actions of this lawyers group in not releasing a transcript reaffirms in my mind that lawyers in general are in the same category as used car salesmen and the vast majority journalists these days.
    Good for Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay for sticking up for her husband, or is that word also offensive these days.

  42. Conservatives should always record every word they speak at events, just for this reason.

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