Reply #14: are pigs female?

[iverglas]

I thought sows were female. Even if I'd said "sow", I would have simply been using correct nomenclature, anyhow.

Here's somebody needing your attentions:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=190&topic_id=11577&mesg_id=11577

Ooooh ... perhaps you thought I was referring to Gallant's physical characteristics. Given that I don't have a very firm idea of what she looks like, that would have been unlikely.

And I'm sure you could never have figured out that I was using "pig" in the sense that many people who've been around for any of the last 50 or so years might really be expected to recognize, as it is used in expressions like "capitalist pig", "male chauvinist pig", and various other formulations referring to what the Concise Oxford calls more generally "a greedy, dirty, obstinate, sulky or annoying person". Perhaps one might sum it up as "nasty".

I tried to find a picture of her in one of her piggier moments:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20040607/exln_cheryl_gallant_040606/20040607/

The Western Catholic Reporter, in an article on an anti-abortion rally on Parliament Hill last month, quotes Gallant as saying the world was horrified at the murder of American contractor Nicholas Berg. He was beheaded by terrorists, and video of the incident was posted on an al-Qaeda affiliated website.

"She compared the killing to the abortions performed in Canada over 35 years and said it is 'absolutely no different'," the article said.

but we'll just have to settle for text. Perhaps Oxford should add "stupid" to its list of adjectives.

Stephen Harper rose to that occasion, you may recall:

Stephen Harper responded immediately from Calgary, but refused to condemn his MP's remarks.

"Cheryl Gallant is a very strong pro-life MP, and this is the rhetoric that the pro-life movement often uses," Harper told reporters in Calgary. "It's their business. I don't think it's particularly effective in changing public opinion."

Not *his* business, no ma'am.

But wait, there's more:

This is not first controversial remark from Gallant. In April, 2002, she was forced to apologize for a comment she made in the House of Commons, telling Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham to "Ask your boyfriend" about Mideast policy.

The remark was picked up by Commons microphones. After a firestorm of criticism, Gallant released a statement saying the remark "was inappropriate."

No, it was pig-like.

But hey, I'll be glad to call a few Liberal / male MPs pigs too if you like:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060116/elxn_campaign_crossfire_060116/20060116?s_name=election2006&no_ads=

Toronto MP Tom Wappel said in 1994 that homosexuality is "statistically abnormal, physically abnormal and morally immoral."

Toronto MP Jim Karygiannis said last June he might never have become an MP without the help of the anti-abortion group Campaign Life Coalition. "I think in 1988 when I was first elected, Campaign Life probably turned things in my favour."

Pretty sure I could have dug up more damning stuff, but I'm a bit busy and I figure you get the idea.

Notice how Bev Desjarlais isn't an NDP MP anymore?