EDITOR, The Tribune.

I was amazed by the disparaging and chauvinistic comments made by BEC Union chief Paul Maynard with respect to the proposed constitutional amendments on gender equality.

His description of our women’s marriage prospects, be they home grown or foreign, as “clowns, lackluster, shiftless, trifling negroes” is insulting to both Bahamian and foreign men.

Mr Maynard is obviously also in favour of arranged marriages as his assertion that his daughter and granddaughter cannot be trusted to make their own decisions as to whom they would marry further highlights his level of chauvinism.

It would appear that despite their frequent verbal altercations, he and his boss Leslie Miller have much in common after all.

IAN MABON

Nassau,

August 12, 2014