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Tuesday, 22 April 2008

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Barry Madison

The vapid attempt to find victimhood oozing from every pore is something the vast majority of people find offensive.

The only appropriate test is whether a child has been denied an opportunity to play an instrument because of gender.

Boys like instruments they can bang; girls don't like heavy instruments. The solution? Genetically design a single sex where everyone has the same tastes and physical characteristics. Nothing short of that would make these people happy.

Denial of opportunity because of sex should never be tolerated. But these efforts have strayed into the land of the absurd, and suggest what's really going on is that some people can't stand the fact that little girls aren't little boys. Instead of celebrating the choices girls (and boys) make, they assume that if girls' choices are different than boys' choices, the girls' choices are inferior, and they can ONLY be accounted for by sexism.

Well, I don't think choosing to play the violen or the flute is inferior to playing the trombone or the drums. To assume otherwise is the most misogynistic kind of thinking imaginable.

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