“I know I’m painting lots of people who aren’t responsible for any of this with a pretty broad brush, but isn’t condemning a nation for distrusting people trying to help them, and blaming that distrust on their traditions, the same thing?”
Archive for November, 2010
“I know, or could guess closer than any other member of my gender who isn’t in a similar situation as me, what is at stake for women. And most importantly what having access to washroom facilities truly means to a person who needs to go. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, things are much different — in ways you can imagine, sure, but it’s the stuff you didn’t consider that really makes you appreciate what certain things truly mean for an individual who isn’t you — on the other side…..”
“I know all too well that a Canadian hospital isn’t a place I want to spend one more second in. I have and will continue to fight the rest of my life to insure that becomes as real as is humanly possible. My point is as bad as my country’s health care system is, it would seem things could be worse…”