The predictable attempt to elevate this into an attack on all women, or indeed to portray any criticism of a female politician as sexist slander, is gender-baiting, pure and simple. So perhaps it's best to have this out now. Either female politicians are the equals of their male counterparts, able to dish it out and take it, or they are not. But let's stop pretending that Sheila Copps or Carolyn Parrish or Alexa McDonough or Deb Grey -- or Belinda Stronach -- are some sort of hothouse flowers, who can be trusted to battle terrorists and murderers but swoon at a little rough language.
The NDP are all over this, of course:
Judy Wasylycia-Leis, another New Democrat MP, said Spector's comments were an affront to not only Stronach, but to women throughout Canada.
"What he has done is absolutely unforgivable," she said.
"It hurts women everywhere, and there is no place for that kind of language and that kind of attitude in our society today."
You ignorant little privledged though-police commie bitch. Why don't you set an example by having the NDP dismiss who has used the phrase "testosterone poisoning" and deratives?
