Whatever. The supposedly "offensive" part, which we heard no fewer than fourteen times lately (sorry, really, I will get over this Olympic high, sometime around, say, Sochi) goes like this:
True patriot love
In all thy sons command
They're looking at changing back to the original lyrics, which went "in all thou dost command"...and were supposedly changed themselves to facilitate enlistment for the First World War. This would be gender-neutral. It would also be pretentious as hell. Thou dost? Who talks like that any more?
(Rocketstar, you might be interested to note that, while our Conservative government is not likely to look at removing the single reference to God--a reference that's lacking in your anthem, by the way--that seems to be a change more people are inclined to consider, at least if you go by the comments to this article.)
I know that, as a man, I should perhaps be a little more sensitive to gender neutrality and all that. But I've seen it carried too far...way too far. "Herstory". "Insbreastution". Yeah, the first time I saw that one, and I'm ashamed to say I've seen it more than once, I had to look at it for a second to figure out what the hell it meant.
Is this really an issue? How many women out there are offended by our national anthem? I couldn't help but notice quite a few joyfully singing it, lately.
You know what this is? It's Harper's sop to political correctness, done while he removes all references to gay rights from our immigration handbook.
When's that damned election, again?
1 comment:
governments are just too f'ed up, it's sad.
Yeah, have to remove the God thing ;o)
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