Dudley Do-Right didn’t dig da Dudettes
Cats: Uncategorized|It’s not surprising that the RCMP spied on women’s groups in the 60s and 70s.
I mean, you wouldn’t expect the “boyz in bluez” of that era to be happy about women’s fight for equality. Women’s equality wasn’t exactly in the best interests of your average Dudley Do-Right. If anything it was just going to be an irritation.
These women were just a bunch of “sweaty uncombed women,” as one Dudley charmingly put it.
No, the real threat wasn’t the women, but the possible infiltration by Trotskyists, male Trotskyists.
The RCMP spied on women’s groups out of fear of Communism, not feminism. They didn’t take women seriously, because they were, well, just women.
The beautiful irony is that it was the women’s movement - not Communism - that created the greatest social change and ferment of the 20th century.
And Dudley Do-Right’s narrow-minded sexist view blinded him to this social revolution in the making. Maybe that myopia made the difference for women in Canada.
Maybe we should all get together and thank the dull-witted Dudley of the day. Had he been more on the ball, he might have been successful in oppressing these “sweating uncombed women.”
August 5th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Excellent post. I’d be willing to bet that between the FBI and the RCMP most every “left wing” group in the last 50 years were infiltrated and spied on.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
hahaha I bet they wish they could find a few Trotskyists right about now!
August 5th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Women trumped Communism! Who would have thought of that?
(Half the population)
Spot on dear.
Doc
August 6th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Dr . Monkey, the irony is that the right wing groups caused more trouble in the past 50 years.
Barbara, There must at least be an indie band called The Trotskytes
Doc, yeah. I wonder what they would have done if they’d known what would happen.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Yeah, how things have changed. Instead of wringing their hands over the potential ‘Communist (or Trotskyist) in the woodpile’ some Dudleys have apparently taken to shedding their frustrations by taking torture and perhaps summary executions to the streets … multiple Tasering of downed ‘purps’ … mysterious and uninvestigated gunshot deaths while in custody … mmmmm … shades of Clockwork Orange.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Oddly enough, I quite by accident ended up rewatching the Trailer Park Boys episode where they kidnap Rita McNeil and force her to help harvest their dope field. I wonder if that was a factor.
August 8th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Hey, GT, you won second prize!
August 8th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Juan, dark by true
Barbara, wuld u believe me if I said that I grew up in the same ‘hood as the area depicted by the TPBz and to me it is not a satire or exaggeration?
Barbara2, gasp! REally?