In The News: Justin Trudeau's Speech on Feminism (Davos 2016)

[Ana, Our Shared Shelf Moderator]

If I didn't know any better, I would send this link to a Facebook 'friend' and former university colleague of mine. We had a lovely discussion the other day because he was swooning over a short clip of an interview to Ayn Rand titled 'Ayn Rand Smashes Feminism in Three Mins' (whoa, that's fast), and he mentioned how this whole parity governments thing seemed to him like total nonsense. In his opinion, 'there was no need to have an equal number of men and women', 'women had to earn their place just like men did' and, by advocating for this kind of stuff, feminism was less about the noble fight for equality and more about a group of crybabies who are no longer strong females but whiny, weak creatures reclaiming special privileges from the state. The horror!

[Katelyn, Our Shared Shelf Moderator]

Ugh, Ana. He seems to be assuming that the women appointed were not qualified. That's a misogynistic assumption!

Justin Trudeau is a DREAM BOAT. His cabinet is also racially diverse. I just adore him.

[Meaghan]

I love that he's my Prime Minister. If you had seen the last few weeks of the election campaign.......yeah. We're not getting into that.