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WIIITBY FREE PRESS. WEDNE.SDAY, APRI IL 15, 1981, PAGE 9 Y.M.C.A's annual dinner speaker . ... Sabia attacks religion and polities By S. GREENAWAY Free Press Staff Laura Sabla, noted Toron- to Sun columnist and crusader for women's rights, attacked the dogmas surrounding a woman's role in today's society with her special brand of wit and wit- ticism Friday night before th annual Durham YMCA dinner/meeting. The 65-year-old Sabia reminiced about a time bet- ween 1916-1918 when a statute on voting read "no imbicile, idiot or woman may vote." She criticized politics on a federal and municipal scale saying that there are too many men on local councils. "Women could do the job quicker, more efficiently and in fewer words than men," she said. She called politicians "nincompoops", apologizing quickly to the numerous mayors in attendance saying she spoke of those in Ottawa. Strippers robbed during their show Clothes aren't the only Holly Rumble (stage name things strippers are shed- Strawberry) and Donna Sut- ding while they perform. tor (stage name Lady Last Tuesday, while three Knîght) share a dressing of the dancers were putting room at the Spruce Villa. on their show at the Spruce According to a Durham Villa in Whitby, they were Regional Police spokesman stripped of $1,396 in money there were no signs of forced and personal effects by an entry into the room. unknown person. Along with the money and Deborah L. Bell (stage personal effects a diamond name Dianne Davidson), ring was taken. Easter story On Saturday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. the Salvation Ar- my will present "His Fleece was White as Snow," a telling of the Easter story through use of puppets. The production is the work of the Salvation Army's Faith-in-Motion Puppet Team. The show will be held at the Whitby Corps, 122 Kent Street and admission is free. "If we had 75 women in parliament, could you imagine the dispatch with which we could get things done?" Sabia said that the role of women in society should no longer expect them to stay at home, adding that women have to work to survive economically. Part of the problem stems from grade school she said. "We have not been able to change text books in elementary levels where the little girl stays in the kitchen with mommy while daddy goes to earn a living." "I would like to see all those text books burnt at Queen's Park and then start anew," she said. She attacked advertising for lowering a woman's esteem of herself. She said that with all the advertising enforcing this image of a woman the "little ones" are affected. "They show women feeling guilty because they can't control ring around the collar. Who gives a damn? Why doesn't he wash his neck?" Sabia, whose late husband was a doctor, said there was nothing more chauvanistic than the medical profession. She said that no matter how qualified women might be, they are never allowed to perform surgery or do research on more difficult subjects. The only institution which is worse than medicine for CRULEY FunitureG RppLionet WO RIY 39 oNk SA s 668 WHETBYERsArEes.. 8-2081 R chauvanism was the church. Sabla called Pope John Paul IL a "globe trotter" who wanted nothing more than to keep women "barefoot and pregnant." "Women cannot become a priest because they are not God like," she said in- creduously. "Who has ever seen God?" "I would like to think God was a woman." She said the school system today was not geared towar- ds the electronic age which we are now in. Of all the schools she had visited, the majority of the boys knew what they wanted to be when they grew up, while 80 per cent of the girls said they wanted to get married. "They have not been able to see beyond the fact that they are going to get married," she said. Marriage, she said, along with giving birth have always been considered good security for women. "I wonder if men could have babies would things be the same as they are now? They wouldn't have, couldn't have been able to put up with it because they don't have the stamina," she said. "If men could have had babies, abortion would have become a sacrement." She said that the problem of teenage sexuality was reaching epidemic propor- tions, citing reports of 1,000 children becoming pregnant every week and 20,000 I~ ir OUR T V SPO GA 1IROQUO A PRIL 1 v • MOL 1323 KIN 725-4648 teenage abortions last year. Sabia said that the problem stemmed from the fact that most parents are afraid to teach their children about sex and, even then, they are not willing to let anybody else do it. "Mothers don't want their daughters to get spoiled but what they don't realize is that they are getting spoiled anyway." While she admitted that she was not necessarily for abortion the decision to abort should be left up to the mother. Part of the solution, she said, lies in the need for better education on con- traception for children. After the main body of her talk was over she took a few questions from the audience. One lady asked her about her feelings towards Lloyd Axeworthy, minister responsible for the Canadian Council on The Status of Women, whom Sabia called a simple minded but good guy. "The poor guy means well but every time he opens his mouth his foot goes into it," shesaid. When asked who she thought best suited to run the country Sabia replied that it would be a businessman. But, she said, "a person would have to be really brainless to go to Ottawa" and subsequently no businessmen would want anything to do with federal politics. "I would place my money on a man who looks at the bottom line rather than someone who has charisma or someone who wears a rose in his lapel." 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