Abortion debate continues
Dear Madame Editor,
I was recently on Fanshawe Online for the first time in a couple of months. (You don't check it a lot when you are on sick leave) Imagine my surprise when I received a scathing e-mail from an “L. Cooney” addressing the lousiness of my article on Feminism on September 26, 2005 - Issue 4 (which he admits he has not read) and the rebuttal letters that were written in the paper the next week.
My article (had he read it) was not about Feminism per se —- it was about the typical stereotyping done by the men in this building if they happen to not pass one of the Fanshawe Live Action Barbies. (I.e. if you are short, don't show that perfectly flat, pierced mid-drift with the fake'n'bake tan. wear comfortable clothes and shoes, etc. then you are labeled a lesbian from day one.) That was the preamble to my story about Dubya Bush appointing another pro-life crony to the Supreme Court, making it more and more dangerous for women to lose their ability to make the choice of what they want to do with THEIR BODIES.
In 2002, I was savagely attacked in an unprovoked manner, having a knife held to my throat, beaten into unconsciousness and a concussion state, and when I did return being awake, he went to start all over again. (This was someone I was visiting who I had known since childhood!) What little energy I had in me, I decided to escape and while doing so he threw me from a second story window down onto a cement sidewalk. I had no clothing on and was in Queens, NY. I had to hail down a car of someone I did not know (who could have been more savage than the one upstairs) who kindly took me to a hospital.
Does that make me a feminist? You are damn right — if I had no choice but carry that child conceived from rape to term because of what some jerk-wad in Ottawa or Washington, DC said what I could or could not do with my body, I would have been furious. No, not furious, frenzied and ready to kill anyone who would have sniggered behind my back making jokes about being an unwed mother.
“L. Cooney” sent this letter to every single person in my department — how he got their email addresses I do not know, as I could not find a major class list including everyone's name at FOL - including those who have completed their co-ops and never have to come back until convocation! But since I can reach a hopefully larger audience with this letter to the editor. You, Mr. Cooney (now movie reviewer here at the Interrobang) should be careful not to run into me. Deep-seeded anger runs deep and it runs long. Perhaps you should check the facts before you tell the students in ENTIRE HOSPITALITY DEPARTMENT how great you are and HOW AWFUL the writers of the Interrobang are. (But now that you are on staff, I am sure that will change everything! Enjoy your free movies as movie critic — I am sure that job is right up your alley!)
Janet Pole
Janet is a Columnist for The Interrobang and Private Citizen as on an extended sick leave from the Hospitality Department
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
I was recently on Fanshawe Online for the first time in a couple of months. (You don't check it a lot when you are on sick leave) Imagine my surprise when I received a scathing e-mail from an “L. Cooney” addressing the lousiness of my article on Feminism on September 26, 2005 - Issue 4 (which he admits he has not read) and the rebuttal letters that were written in the paper the next week.
My article (had he read it) was not about Feminism per se —- it was about the typical stereotyping done by the men in this building if they happen to not pass one of the Fanshawe Live Action Barbies. (I.e. if you are short, don't show that perfectly flat, pierced mid-drift with the fake'n'bake tan. wear comfortable clothes and shoes, etc. then you are labeled a lesbian from day one.) That was the preamble to my story about Dubya Bush appointing another pro-life crony to the Supreme Court, making it more and more dangerous for women to lose their ability to make the choice of what they want to do with THEIR BODIES.
In 2002, I was savagely attacked in an unprovoked manner, having a knife held to my throat, beaten into unconsciousness and a concussion state, and when I did return being awake, he went to start all over again. (This was someone I was visiting who I had known since childhood!) What little energy I had in me, I decided to escape and while doing so he threw me from a second story window down onto a cement sidewalk. I had no clothing on and was in Queens, NY. I had to hail down a car of someone I did not know (who could have been more savage than the one upstairs) who kindly took me to a hospital.
Does that make me a feminist? You are damn right — if I had no choice but carry that child conceived from rape to term because of what some jerk-wad in Ottawa or Washington, DC said what I could or could not do with my body, I would have been furious. No, not furious, frenzied and ready to kill anyone who would have sniggered behind my back making jokes about being an unwed mother.
“L. Cooney” sent this letter to every single person in my department — how he got their email addresses I do not know, as I could not find a major class list including everyone's name at FOL - including those who have completed their co-ops and never have to come back until convocation! But since I can reach a hopefully larger audience with this letter to the editor. You, Mr. Cooney (now movie reviewer here at the Interrobang) should be careful not to run into me. Deep-seeded anger runs deep and it runs long. Perhaps you should check the facts before you tell the students in ENTIRE HOSPITALITY DEPARTMENT how great you are and HOW AWFUL the writers of the Interrobang are. (But now that you are on staff, I am sure that will change everything! Enjoy your free movies as movie critic — I am sure that job is right up your alley!)
Janet Pole
Janet is a Columnist for The Interrobang and Private Citizen as on an extended sick leave from the Hospitality Department
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
