June 13: LETTERS
WELL, HERE we are with our pretty city all decked out for the tourists, our
prime minister is sorting out a new cabinet, there is the Stanley Cup going on and
what is the headline in the Ottawa Sun? "Topless hookers up to new tricks."
Aren't we proud of our newest newspaper in Ottawa. You'd almost think that someone
at the Sun would have enough brains to know that our topless hookers do not deserve
any attention let alone headline status in the newspaper. Does anyone at the Sun
have the ability to see past breasts and why is it that wherever there are bare
breasts there is someone who works for the Sun? I'm sure all of our guests in town
from all over the world are convinced we are all "boobs" like you. It's
embarrassing!
T. Prime
(We'd agree that taken at face value, this issue is ridiculous -- but to parents
who don't want their children to see half-naked women walking around, or shop owners
up against the prospect of topless prostitutes parading outside their business,
it's not so trivial)
TO VANIER from Ottawa: Good for you, that you have the courage and leadership
to not close your eyes to the issue of women going topless. This issue sounds a
lot like the story of the king who had no clothes on. In this story no one wanted
to tell him that he had no clothes on for fear they would lose their head. This
country is pretending that they don't see the indecency of toplessness. Are there
no limits? What will be next? Maybe someone will stand on my lawn very soon and
take a leak and say that it is within his rights to express himself on my lawn in
his own way. Let's get real and set limits and boundaries to our social behavior.
As parents we set boundaries for our children and children respond by knowing and
receiving a security from these boundaries in knowing what is right and what is
wrong. More and more we are entering into a obtuse dimension of social behavior
where we don't know what is right and what is wrong. Whatever feels right at the
moment is considered right. People of this great nation of Canada, don't you realize
this leads to anarchy. To the politicians of this country, please show the guts
to fight one more way to erode the morality of this country just a little more.
The female body was created beautiful and its full beauty is only shown within the
confines of marriage. To flaunt this beauty in any other way is only degrading and
demeaning not only to the women but to God who created us.
Adrien Cornelisse
Leamington
(It's all the fault of that darn snake)