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I don't know what media  coverage I'm more sick of reading and watching, the Sex and the City film premiere or the Maxime Bernier, Julie Couillard affair. It's not that I don't have an opinion about the potential breach of Canadian security debacle.  It's just that stories like this, and especially coverage of these stories make me tired. I deliberately wasn't following it when it was only "cleavagegate," but I guess lately it's escalated to a serious national matter.

Christie Blatchford and Sarah Hampson's assessments (in the Globe and Mail) yesterday were frustratingly predictable. Much more refreshing was Antonia Zerbisias's Toronto Star column (she's my friend, I feel compelled to say, but that's besides the point). Even more interesting is David Eddie's take in today's Globe. Women know women and how they operate, good or bad, but we rarely hear what men (political pundits aside) think. If we have to have "life" pieces about this slice of theatre, let's at least balance it out. I get frustrated by all the  male and female bashing by the opposite sex.

Less petty jealousy, more objective thinking please. Plus, I don't know how much the general public cares about the he said, she said drama behind it all.

It doesn't escape my notice that all this is going on at exactly the same time as Sex and the City hype. While generally considered "ground-breaking" at the start, I truly believe the longer that show existed the more it helped create the new gossipy, superficial and over wrought way we now live. Caring about clothes over character.

What I care about is what goes on on Parliament Hill and when the Harper government is finally going to be held accountable by Canadians. As long as we focus on playing sex and the city with 'cleavagegate," and arguing over who left what where, why (booty call or not) and who's idea it was to wear the revealing dress to a formal government event, the more this government gets to do what it wants, when it wants, even though (and by the way) it doesn't have a majority seating.

This is why people, especially young voters,  are so turned off politics and choose not to exercise their coveted civil right and duty come election time.

Move along.