[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by jammies

Interesting article, however I cringed at "but he has helped elect the last two mayors of Calgary—both visible minorities, one the city’s first Muslim leader, the other the first woman" and almost stopped reading. Women are not a minority, they are a majority.

I know what the writer was trying to say, but deceptive (if inadvertent) verbiage is the kind of insidious distortion of concepts I especially loathe. It is functionally equivalent to the idiots who think pointing out white males are a minority means they must be oppressed.

Ahhhh, being a woman is not what makes Jyoti Gondeck an visible minority.
Granted the sentence is a little poorly worded, but Jyoti is both a woman and a visible minority.