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It's a conscious choice "we're" making as parents, when "we" encourage our little boys to grow up strong💪, but not our little girls.
A choice that can only be interpreted as "I'm OK leaving *one* of you relatively unable to defend themselves in future."
#InternationalWomensDay
If little boys and little girls were taught to pursue physical strength to the same extent, it wouldn't solve anything, but it would certainly make things a damn sight better.
For me, choosing to discriminate in that way, borders on parental neglect.
#InternationalWomensDay
While we must fight evil with all we have, it isn't going anywhere. It hasn't in 5000s years. So wherever there's a power imbalance, there will be those who exploit it.
So I want the mind of every creep to contain the thought "That girl might kick my ass."
#InternationalWomensDay
#HappyWomensDay2019 #InternationalWomansDay
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Given that makeup is academically thought to mimic arousal (blood flow to lips, flush, etc) and the pressure to wear it...
Has our society forced women into a choice between being accused of "not making an effort" and being visually sexualised at work?
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Every time I touch this topic I get a backlash, but I think it's important to point out. The greater expectation on women to wear makeup, objectively lowers the social value of a woman's natural face relative to man's. That's inequality, plain and simple.
The usual counter is "makeup makes me feel good". It shouldn't have to.
Cigarettes make smokers feel better but they aren't happier than non-smokers overall. The bar has simply been moved. The bar for appearance is different for women. That's the problem.
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Does Michael Gove sit in his constituency office, drafting environmental laws, using the scientific expertise he gained from his English Lit degree?
Or does the UK government set the general policy direction and then the unelected civil service drafts the legislative proposals?
Well at the EU level, the Government set the general policy direction of the EU in the @EUCouncil twice every 6 months. And then the Commissioners who they appoint and who need to be individually approved by the directly elected @Europarl_EN, then draft the legislative proposals.
OK well in my view that makes it very difficult to argue that EU legislative proposals are less democratically legitimate than UK legislative proposals.
But that's obviously not the end of the story...
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Which successful economy in the world trades with its closest neighbours on just WTO rules?
I'll wait...
Still waiting...
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