"Unreadably Canadian" (National Post columnist Barbara Kay sticks it to the feminists again)

Article here. Excerpt:

'Not torn up enough to make it her subject, alas. Yet Moore claims she was "startled" at the paucity of writing to come out of the tragedy. She notes to Laidlaw that a 1985 Royal Commission report revealed: "A lot of safety practises were ignored. The men weren't trained properly. There weren't enough survival suits. They didn't have a safe exit plan."

And what does Moore do with this treasure-trove of thematic bullion? Something very postmodernly Canadian. The "startled" Moore deflects attention from the tragedy and its male victims to hover solicitously over a surrogate victim, her protagonist, 31-year-old widowed Helen, "a creation rooted in the lives of Moore's own mother and herself."
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Me, me, me and my extraordinary capacity for sadness. Welcome to the unrelenting self-regard of CanLit, where it's all about nobly suffering women or feminized men: men immobilized in situations of physical, psychological or economic impotence (that is when they're not falling through the ice and nearly drowning), rather than demonstrating manly courage in risk-taking or heroic mode.'