Jerome Johnson
Dear editor:
On Wednesday, April 13, I observed four school buses with pink T-shirts fixed to the front grill. The word “Bully” was inscribed on them.
Later on, we drove by an elementary school, where the kids were having recess. Half the boys wore pink.
This was disheartening and scandalous.
This all started in a Nova Scotia high school, I know. So keep it where it started—in high schools.
And confine “Day of Pink” to juniors and seniors. They’ve made up their minds about most things by there and will be able to vote in a year or so.
Parents and teachers are persuading/pressuring a nine- or 10-year-old boy into wearing pink have, in fact, turned the bully issue back on themselves.
To wear pink is something boys would never do. Boys who are going to grow up and be heterosexuals. And this is natural.
Two scenarios: offer 100 men an expensive free coat. They either could choose the brown, black, or the light pink coat. If there were no women (or creamy-faced politicians) around, they all would choose the black or brown coat. Naturally.
Offer 100 women a very expensive free coat of the same colours. And place them in the 1950s or ’60s. Half of them would choose the pink coat.
How many women would choose the pink coat today? I’ll have to ask the civil liberties union.
But on second thought, I think I’ll echo Rhett Butler in “Gone with the Wind” when he finally told Scarlett: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
Yours truly,
Jerome Johnson
Rainy River, Ont.
