This piece is fictional. It is not actual news, but rather a satirical look at current events.
QUEEN'S PARK -- Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman is under fire for the second time in one week. Not content to alienate the elderly (which apparently only covered 25% of eligible voters in the province), Smitherman has set his sights on a larger group: an entire gender.
"Every month I have to listen to these women complain about menstruation, and the inconvenience feminine hygiene products cause them," the Health Minister said yesterday. "I was thinking I would show them that it's not that bad by spending a day wearing a maxi pad."
Critics suggested that Smitherman was ignoring a large segment of women by limiting himself to a maxi pad. PC leader John Tory had this to say, "Mr. Minister, if you want to truly walk a mile in women's shoes (and really, that would be great... it would definitely help in future smear campaigns), then you should consider the other product: the tampon."
NDP leader Howard Hampton added, "And if you're not sure where to put it, I'm sure some of the female MPPs would be more than happy to make a suggestion."
Ontario Premier and leader of the Liberal Party, Dalton McGuinty, when asked about the Health Minister's behaviour, said, "I've got nothing. This guy is a f**king idiot. I don't know what I was thinking when I appointed him Health Minister."
When asked what his next move would be, Smitherman refused to comment. However, racial and religious groups everywhere are bracing for impact.
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6 comment:
oh. my. goodness....
what the flip is he thinking!!!???
nice post! lol.... I know where he could shove it!
Bwahahahaha!!!
Oh I'll tell him where to put a super sized tampon and then we can discuss dignity.
Nice one SciFiDad
You know, on the upside, you could live in the US where the health minister would ban all feminine hygiene products as Threats to National Security.
That's pretty much the SOP response in the US these days.
(Very funny satire. LOL)
George Smitherman's a jackass.
Let him wear the diaper... but only while spending a week or two living in a "less-desirable" and (needless to say) overcrowded Senior's Care Facility. As a patient.
Hopefully then he will not only get a taste for how THAT feels, but if he has one ounce of intelligence, he will also see how stressed, overworked, and disheartened most of the employees of such facilities are.
What an arse. Maybe we should diaper his head, too.
CGF
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