https://pamelacross.ca/of-lemons-and-feminism/ Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate Sat, 27 May 2017 21:27:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pamelacross.ca/of-lemons-and-feminism/#comment-12 Sat, 27 May 2017 21:27:24 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=558#comment-12 Oh Pam, I feel so sad and so angry that I won’t live long enough to see women receiving the same respect given to men. Like you I do share my views, but much less often than I did in the past, mostly because I just want to be happy.

]]> https://pamelacross.ca/of-lemons-and-feminism/#comment-11 Fri, 26 May 2017 14:06:17 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=558#comment-11 Wow! It just never stops! I so relate Pam. I remember flying back from Winnipeg in the early 90s, the day after the Lavallee Decision came down from the Supreme Court. The guy beside me was reading a front page Globe and Mail article in which I had commented on the importance of recognizing Battered Women Syndrome. He said to me — “Can you believe it! The Supreme Court has just made it ok for women to kill their husbands!” I so should have set him straight! But for all the reasons you mentioned I just replied, “what will they think of next!” This was worse than remaining silent but I just couldn’t bear to take him on all the way from Winnipeg to Ottawa ! But that was 1990! This is 2017! And it is still hard to confront this enduring and dangerous dismissal of the violence that destroys the right to security for women.

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