Prominent Canadian Women Press For Gender Neutral Anthem

[The Comrade]

it has literally nothing to do with 'losing your shit'. it's a more accurate and convenient phrase.

why people bitch and moan about minor changes in the english language i will never understand. it's been centuries of people like you that caused our grammar to be so completely f**k.

[Canada_Rocks]

It isn't more "accurate". The reason it is the "Holidays" is because it is Christmas. Calling it Christmas is accurate.

[exploited]

I say Merry Christmas, and I am an adamant atheist. I've yet to encounter anyone who felt awkward or wronged by being wished a Merry Christmas, so I've never understood the need for sensitivity. Now if I was in a synagogue or something, sure, I'd feel inappropriate saying it, but in day to day life, who cares? It's a pleasantry, and anybody who gets worked up over pleasantries is an asshole.

When you start with the culture-neutral expressions, where do you stop? Should I not saying "Have a good Thanksgiving" because it is a holiday based in large part around massacring indigenious people? It all seems kind of ridiculous to me. One of my buddies I used to play hockey with converted to Islam, which I despise as much as I do Christianity, and he sends me cards for Eid Al-Adha, and I appreciate the gesture.

True cultural diversity is acceptance of difference, not avoidance.

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[Darkhorse]

I like Atwood's poetry.

Women are trying to change the anthem because it's something they might actually be able to accomplish. There are certainly bigger issues, but those are largely outside of our control. Those big problems will need to be bred out of society.

It's like the controversy over the Washington Redskins name. There are major problems in Native American communities: poverty, substance abuse, lack of opportunity. Those are frustrating problems that no one has a solution for. So, instead people go after little symbolic things because that is pretty much all they can do. Which is particularly strange in the case of the Redskins because it seems to be mostly the Elizabeth Warrens types who are so opposed to the name.