renaissance poisson

yeah, i had that possibility at the back of my mind, but didn't want to be blatantly classist on a hunch. i have become much more insulated from all of mainstream, including blue collar circles now that i no longer volunteer anywhere, or work outside of the home business; my time spent in supermarket checkout lanes is too short to overhear much, and what i do overhear is just never of this kind. the local newspaper has no such letters. i don't listen to christian or country radio stations. i don't go to bars. but this is very much a blue collar town, and those of my acquaintances who work in blue collar jobs; my landlord, their friends, their kids and kids' friends, our boat builder, and his hires don't hold those attitudes. i wouldn't claim that means no canadians hold them, however, just that those canadians who do don't surface on my radar. it could be, though, that it is overall a less acceptable attitude to have in canada than in the US; that wouldn't surprise me. canada is by no means free from sexism, and "she asked for it" still appears in discussions about college girls who get drunk at frat parties, but for example, i've never ever heard the kind of christian radio station up here that i heard down there. maybe it exists in alberta?

ignoring the mainstream is really good for my blood pressure, but the disadvantage is that i don't have a finger on its pulse, if that pulse doesn't make itself somehow felt on the internet.

these people from whom you hear this sort of crap, are they at all likely to be woken up by a feminist protest? i strongly suspect they're prejudiced against all things feminist anyway, and write such things off as simply more male-bashing.