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Volume 23 © Issue 1 * September 9 1998
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Devil's Advocate

nother summer gone by the
Av School begins again

with only memories of the
few months past, and all the
excitement that went with it. Gone
for another year is the PNE (or
Pacific National Exhibition)
undoubtedly the biggest two week
wet dream for pedophiles and child
molesters in the Lower Mainland.

There can be no question that
the seasoned pervert was out in full
force, walking around and drooling
with delight at the little girls walk-
ing around in halter tops with bra
straps showing.

Pre-teen girls wearing pants so
tight, one would swear they were
not cloth but paint slapped on their
legs, with platform shoes and
enough makeup products to pay off
a small country’s debt.

And, even more importantly,
with no parents or responsible
adults anywhere to be found.
Where are the parents? They're off
either working, or enjoying them-
selves with their friends while their
daughters are out pretending they're
supermodels in a world they are not
even close to being able to deal
with. And then no one can believe
it was their daughter that got raped.

Now, this is not to justify some

Qn lacking sex and neutral

JOANNA COLE

have a male friend who is the
[= of rugged masculinity.

He is handsome, intelligent,
athletic, fixes cars and builds things.
He is also an extremely good man,
and he manages to pull it all off

without being an annoying

week. He'd just won an inflatable
hammer in a test of strength and to
say he was happy would be a major
understatement.

For whatever reason, a female
friend of mine mentioned that his
prowess didn't make him seem any
less ‘gender neutral’ Gender
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him because he
brings out the best in them.
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head starts to swell about this glow-
ing description, | will hurt you.)

Like all men, he has his insecuri-
ties and like all men he seems to
really enjoy being macho. Which is
why I’m writing this.

A large group of us were stand-
ing ina line up at the PNE last

Letter

was delighted to read about the
[se garden contest that's

being run through Douglas
College. Keep it up. You're working
locally, I concentrate globally. Both
are needed.

Religions usually are so busy
debating whether chairs should be
allowed in churches for eating on,
attacking other religions like
Archbishop Exner attacking church-
es led by homosexuals, or protest-
ing religious bashing, euthanasia,
homosexuality, abortion and even
contraception that they ignore what
increasing human impact ts doing
to our one and only home—earth.

Diminishing congregations are

term in a very small G section.
gender neutral (adj., n) g. neuter, g.
neutrality. 1. Without gender. ex.
“Gee that paramecium sure has
mastered asexual reproduction” 2.
A sphere of friendship between
women and men. This term is used
by many women in different forms.
ex “you're like a brother.” It stems
from a female belief that some men

okay with environmentalists, unless
churches join their concerns for
stopping human destruction of the
web of life on which we all depend.
Occasionally I see a glimmer of
hope in this lack of religious con-
cern about the environment.
“Religious groups see climate
change as a potential danger to
‘God's world”...A majority of the
Republican-led-Congress has vowed
not to approve the Kyoto agreement
and is fighting what it says are
Clinton'’s...efforts to independently
promote and carry out the agree-
ments provisions... [his is one rea-
son the church groups decided to
publicize their activity on climate

   

Is this your daughter?
pervert’s lifestyle, indeed the oppo-
site, but to point out that if people
don’t start taking some interest in
what their children are doing, the
situation is going to get a lot worse.

Surely there were some in the
crowd who had never thought
about a pre-teen girl before, but
who, after seeing the parade of
flesh before their eyes, may have
second thoughts.

relationships

can only be friends and a male
belief that they cannot only be
friends with women. To counter
this conflict, females attempt to
cultivate female-type friendships
with males, thus creating a friend
who is neither male (wanna go to a
monster truck rally) nor female
(let's go buy shoes).

The fact is, women are great
classifiers. And even friendships
arent safe from this. Men have
friends. Women have best friends,
close friends, acquaintances, the
people they are nice to just in
case...the list goes on. And that’s
just for other females.

Male friends are a whole other
kettle of fish. There are friends,
friends you wish were more, friends
you wish would clue in there will
never be more, friends who will
work in a snap for a dateless event,
friends your parents hassle you
about (both positive and negative)
and the gender neutral friend.
Again, the list goes on.

Every woman is different, so
while I may classify one guy as gen-

change now...faith communities
measure the global economy not
only by what it produces, but also
by its impact on the environ-
ment...Earlier this year, a group of
Jewish and Christian leaders urged
Congress to re-authorize the
Endangered Species Act, which they
likened to Noah's ark. (Christian
Science Monitor, 25 Aug.)
Tragically Canada doesn't even have
such an Act.

The icing on the cake in that
edition of the paper was a letter to
the editor whose headline was “In
eco(ological) debates, include popu-
lation growth” It makes clear we
must stop population growth.

PLT ea =
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Sex has become the next babysit-
ter. Parents dropping their kids off
at the mall to hang out all day
looking like they are about to start
a striptease show on centre stage,
and then come to pick them up
after work. Molesters and rapists
have cars too, and have easy access
to the mall for scouting purposes.

But it would never happen to
your daughter. Just like you'll never
get cancer from smoking, that hap-
pens to somebody else.

Sadly, it will take a tragedy like a
serial rapist on a spree without get-
ting caught to drive some sense into
everyone, and show them that these
things actually do happen when you!

don't give a rat’s ass about how your

    
     
   

children grow up.

der neutral, others may not. The
case in point—my friend at the
PNE. I don’t think he’s gender neu-
tral. My girl friend does.

It’s not that she thinks he’s any
less masculine than I do, or that
he's just like a girl. It’s just as
friendships go, she’s comfortable
with him. She’s not attracted to
him for anything other than his
friendship though, and that is her
qualifier for the gender neutrality
moniker.

The point is, guys, being gender
neutral isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
It’s not always a good thing either,
but sometimes gender neutrality is
the highest compliment a woman
can pay a man. It implies trust and
comfort. The only thing gender
neutrality precludes is a dating rela-
tionship because it would be too
much like kissing your brother. And
that is somewhere no normal
woman wants to go.

Global warming is caused by green-
house gases which are emitted by
the extravagance of the rich and the
desperation of the poor. The latter
have no options but to burn forests
to provide a living for themselves,
thus destroying carbon sinks of the
future and releasing greenhouse
gases in the present. Thus global
warming increases with population
increase and churches must devote
much more effort to save the envi-
ronment.

Ken McLean, Lower Mainlan
Sustainable Population Group,