Catcalling??!!

 Doesn't Calgary City Council have more important things to worry about than catcalling??!!  Nenshi -- who will NEVER have to worry about such attention -- and his gang of idiots are debating about passing a bylaw to outlaw catcalling.

Whaaaaaat!!??

Talk about turbo-charged nothingness, this takes the cake.  What is wrong with catcalling?  Frankly, I used to enjoy it when I was young and hot.  Now I am invisible, so don't have to worry about it.  But I do remember touring Italy as a nubile twenty-something and feeling very safe when young men whistled or said, "Ooh la la!"  All they were doing was complimenting me, not lying in wait in some back alley to assault me.  It was out in the open and I loved the attention.  

Now, a few dowdies are wanting to outlaw it.  Get over yourselves.  Please! 

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Another guy who needs to get over himself is the righteous Perry Bellegarde.  Apparently his latest outrage centres around Erin O'Toole's "galling" assertion that Egerton Ryerson began residential schools because he believed in education for all.  OMG!  What an outrage!!  Ryerson actually thought it a good idea to teach natives to read and write!  Wow, what an affront!  Did a blog on another outraged success story, one James Bartleman, (see "The Pudding," March 28, 2017).  Bartleman would never have achieved the success he did without having attended a residential school.

In other countries, people actually pay big money to send their kids to boarding schools to be better educated than the public schools or parents could have achieved.  Bellegarde labelled O'Toole's assertions "political".  Well, duh!  Of course!  And what is Bellegarde if not wholly political?!  And if I have to look at, or listen to, the ridiculous harridan Pam Palmeter one more second I'm going to scream!  Ryerson is actually paying her a salary to crap on Ryerson?!  What!!??  Pamie has one agenda:  Hating "colonialism". 

Sexual abuse happens in all boarding schools and in the case of the natives, it has been revealed that most of the abuse was doled out by other native kids -- not those who ran the places.  So, let's get a grip here, calm down and be grateful for what society had given us.  Was I abused?  Yes.  Did I get over it?  Obviously.  Don't dine out on the past.  Move forward.