Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦I have a brilliant young University of Ottawa student, a former member of the Senate page program, who works part time in my office. This morning, she answered the phone, only to face a torrent of abuse from an Albertan who was furious about Bill C-11. He apparently called me a « dumb c-nt » and she was very shaken. And I realized just how blasé I’ve become about just insults. To me, it was business very much as usual. And I felt guilty my lovely 19-year-old staffer had to be exposed to this.
Maybe feminists of my generation have failed our daughters’ generation. I take abuse and threats for granted. They were part of everyday life in my old job, and so I wasn’t shocked or upset when they happened in my new role. I laugh them off. But I can’t expect my young staffers to be as inured as I am. We have normalized this rhetoric towards women in public life, and I don’t see a way back.
Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦@Paulatics Could there be a way out of a majority of us make the social consequences so severe that bigots/misogynists start thinking first and selecting the more civilized option? #ConsequenceCulture