viking wrote:
> I mean this is just about the most blatant, stupid sexism I've seen
> coming down the pike in a month:

You're not kidding.  If I didn't see the link, I might not have
believed that the once proud CBC would print such a thing.  But there
it is.

I was especially suspicious of this being a spoof because a poster
known as Per wrote a nearly identical spoof - back in 1996.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.feminism/msg/a0a3d52e0c1fa299?dmode=source

> http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041210/w121092.html
>
> BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Severe weather caused by global
warming
> can pose greater physical danger to women than men, a Canadian
> attending a UN conference on climate change said Friday.
>
> "For instance, often women don't know how to swim, so in a flood
> situation that can lead to a higher instance of death or injury,"

Well, I'd gladly pay taxes toward a program to give them all snorkels.
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