In a recent BBC interview, Melinda Gates claimed that "the world was built for men". Certainly it was built by men, says Dr David McGrogan. But it's a very distorted view which says men built it only for themselves.
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In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Aviva cracking down on sexism by being sexist, British Airways not taking sides by removing a Jewish sitcom and Tucker Carlson launching a new media network.
Aviva's Chief Executive Amanda Blanc told MPs that no senior "non-diverse" (white male) hire is made at the company without her personal approval – exposing the rotten truth about 'diversity', says Annabel Denham.
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These Op-Ed’s I pen in Newport News Times are my reckoning with loads of travel, plethora of spiritual work, and in-the-trenches journalistic forays dredging unimaginable but potent “land.” I muck around with smalltown newspapers, even when the gig pays zero shekels, because I have a thing for smalltown newspapers staying in business. REALLY. So here […]
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In two years of lies, the pandemic has revealed at least one undeniable truth – we really are living in a “new normal”. They kept telling us “Covid” would usher one in, and for once they weren’t lying. The world is different, and we need to live in it as it is, rather than pretending …
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Austria and Germany travelling back in time In Germany, despite never have any kind of “public health emergency” worthy of the name, Angela Merkel’s …
Bikinis are a mandatory part of female handball players’ dress code. In contrast, male players wear shorts. Similar sexist discrimination prevails almost in all events. Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, a retired professor from the University of Toronto specializing in critiques of the Olympic industry and gender issues in sport, said: “There are sports where the overt sexualization of female bodies is[Read More...]
A particular scene in Paatal Lok, which is a series in Amazon Prime used a racist and a sexist remark on a Khasi woman calling her a “Nepali whore” (in Hindi). This was followed by uproar and petitions from Nepalies across India demanding to mute that particular line followed by an apology for the same[i]. This recent incident further triggers[Read More...]
They talk about it as if they’re doing a garbage, low budget remake of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” but instead of a golden ticket, it’s a $1,200 check. And instead of a magical trip through a fantasy land of candy and orange-faced crooners, it’s a paltry pittance from an orange-faced fascist who held up the delivery in order to ensure brand advertising on each and every check.
I'm not in the music business any longer. I remember when I told my boss I was leaving, I told him the thing I most wanted to never have to have anything to do with was the Grammys. First of all, I was joyful I would never have to be a prop in their TV show any longer. You can't imagine how boring it is to go to that thing year after year. Sure, once is exciting and twice is ok... but year after year after year? Even I have better ways to spend my time. Worse was serving on one of their selection committees, as I did for a few years.
