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The idea of having a baby fills me with an absolute, vice-like dread... because I'm a feminist
Throughout my life, ever since my earliest memory, I have never even spared a single, solitary thought on the idea that I was in any way unequal to a man. It never crossed my mind that I would not have my own career, be in any way financially dependent on a wallet with testicles. It never occurred to me that a woman could not run the country (I was born under Thatcher), that a woman could not be a boss (my mum was one) that a woman could not shoot, ride and fight like a man (yes, I may have watched a lot of Calamity Jane and Buffy growing up).
Gender inequality? It was a systemic issue to be toppled, sure, but not a lived reality for me.
And yet now, at 31, I find myself wrestling with a belated and thoroughly unpleasant notion.
We are not equal.
Why? Because I'm in that decade, the one where marriage and babies becomes, not a 'one day' concern, but an approaching reality. And yet- should I be lucky enough to have a baby- the idea of having one fills me with an absolute, vicelike dread. Because it may take two to bonk that baby into existence, but after the fun part's over; it's all on me.
Tags: Children, Choices, Environment, Equality, Family, Fear, Life Expectancy, Life Sucks, New World Order, No more Heroes, Nobody Cares, Overpopulation, Parental Burden, Political, Safety
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6 Things White Kids Say About Race That Parents Should Call Out Now
White parents often avoid talking openly about race with white children because of the unfounded fear that it will call attention to differences that kids wouldn't otherwise notice. Some insist their kids are just too young for such conversations.
If parents don't explain why these inequities exist — that they exist because of longstanding systemic racism in this country — children will assume they must be justified or "natural."
We asked experts to share some of the problematic things white kids commonly say and how parents can respond in order to further the conversation and create a teachable moment.
Illinois School Board Member Resigns After Calling Black People 'Animals'
Tags: Awareness, Complaint, Education, Employment, Etiquette, Lifestyle, Neglect, New World Order, Parental Burden, Parental Laziness, Responsibility, Termination, Training, Unruly Child, Words
We Are Living in a Failed State
The virus should have united Americans against a common threat. With different leadership, it might have. Instead, even as it spread from blue to red areas, attitudes broke down along familiar partisan lines. The virus also should have been a great leveler. You don't have to be in the military or in debt to be a target—you just have to be human. But from the start, its effects have been skewed by the inequality that we've tolerated for so long. When tests for the virus were almost impossible to find, the wealthy and connected—the model and reality-TV host Heidi Klum, the entire roster of the Brooklyn Nets, the president's conservative allies—were somehow able to get tested, despite many showing no symptoms. The smattering of individual results did nothing to protect public health. Meanwhile, ordinary people with fevers and chills had to wait in long and possibly infectious lines, only to be turned away because they weren't actually suffocating. An internet joke proposed that the only way to find out whether you had the virus was to sneeze in a rich person's face.
Tags: Americans, Coronavirus, Environment, Exclusivity, Hate, Heartless, Insensitivity, Interference, Mental Health, New World Order, Parental Burden, Parental Crime, Parental Responsibility, Perception, Politics, Poverty, Preference, Preservation, Safety, Supremacy, Threat, Treatment, Unruly Child, Writing
Millennials Don't Stand a Chance
Hello, lost generation.
The Millennials entered the workforce during the worst downturn since the Great Depression. Saddled with debt, unable to accumulate wealth, and stuck in low-benefit, dead-end jobs, they never gained the financial security that their parents, grandparents, or even older siblings enjoyed. They are now entering their peak earning years in the midst of an economic cataclysm more severe than the Great Recession, near guaranteeing that they will be the first generation in modern American history to end up poorer than their parents.
Recessions are not good for anyone, from infants to the elderly. Nor are pandemics. Americans born during this calamity will be more likely to have low birth weights and to be in poor health generally, with lifelong effects. Children will not just endure this trauma—manifested in lost months of schooling, skipped meals, housing volatility, and increased abuse—but will carry it with them. Zoomers graduating into the recession will die sooner because of it, suffering increased incidence of heart disease, lung cancer, liver disease, and drug overdoses in the coming decades; they will also earn less over the course of their lives. The elderly are likely to be the most economically insulated group but are facing the most terrifying health consequences.
Among adults the news isn't good, either. And particularly not for those youngish-but-no-longer-young adults who came into this crisis already vulnerable, already fragile, already over-indebted and underpaid. The Millennials were left with scars during the Great Recession that never quite healed, and inherited an economy structured to manufacture precarity for the young and the poor and black and brown, and to perpetuate wealth for the old and the rich and white.
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Religious right groups are masquerading as churches to hide how they spend their money
Increasingly, religious right organizations that don't resemble a church in any sense are declaring themselves to be just that. The reasoning is simple: by doing so, they no longer have to file publicly accessible documents detailing how they spend their money and how much they pay their leaders.
According to Ministry Watch, an independent group that monitors Christian charities, "more tax-exempt organizations that clearly are not churches are claiming the church exception. These organizations are using this exception to keep not only the government, but also donors, from seeing how their money is being spent."
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Latest Data Confirms Anti-Vaxxers Are Winning: Measles Is On the Rise
If you thought that measles episode of The Brady Bunch was hilarious and that measles is just such a cute old-timey virus, then you'll be happy to hear: Measles is back! Thanks to the efforts of down-home anti-vaxxer folk, we're now officially living in a world that has more cases of measles since 1992. Nostalgia for the '90s is out of control! We should have resurrected Nirvana, not measles. RIght?
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Tags: Contagion, Contamination, Disease, Environment, Etiquette, Exclusivity, Health, Inhumanity, Interference, Nature, Neglect, New World Order, No more Heroes, Parental Crime, Preference, Privilege, Protection, Reckless, Religion, Responsibility, Safety, Self Interest, Social Media, Survival, Unity, Unruly Child
The Wing Founder Calls Out Gay Politician for Posting Shirtless Photo
One of the founders of elite women's club The Wing publicly criticized New York City's openly gay City Council Speaker for sharing a picture of a shirtless man on social media.
Audrey Gelman, who co-founded The Wing with Lauren Kassan in 2016, tweeted a screenshot of a recent Instagram post shared by Corey Johnson, who has served on New York's City Council since 2014 and as City Council Speaker since 2018.
Johnson's post, shared just after midnight on Friday, depicts an unidentified man who isn't wearing a shirt. [UPDATE: Johnson is dating the man in the picture, his office confirms.] Gelman tweeted her screenshot of the photo approximately eight hours later, calling out what she perceived to be a sexist double standard.
"Corey Johnson, the NYC Council Speaker, posted this photo on social media at midnight," Gelman wrote. "If a woman elected official did this, they wouldn't have a job in the morning."
Tags: All Rights, Exclusivity, Free Speech, Gay, Hate, Homophobia, Interference, Judgment, LGBTQ, Lifestyle, New World Order, Privilege, Representation, Ridiculous, Tired, Women In Charge
The world wonders what's happened to America
What happens to a country that is an idea, when that idea turns ugly?
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the United States has been the leader of the free world economically, militarily, but also -- as communism and fascism fell by the wayside -- as an idea.
They went too far in Iraq in 2003, got too greedy before 2008, and let Syria down in 2013. But still, the US' obsession with painstakingly transparent self-analysis, allocation of blame and rooting out failure, got it back on top. However much you hate it, the idea seemed to justify its existence.
But this has been a difficult month. Well, a difficult year. Actually, scratch that too: everything since November 2016 has been discombobulating. I recall watching American expats, Europeans, Lebanese aghast in Beirut when Donald Trump won. It seemed to them like the wheels were coming off civilization. But surely, they could not forever, as the idea of the United States was designed to be tamper-proof?
Tags: Americans, Causing Hate, Environment, Judgment, Leaders, Misrepresentation, Neglect, New World Order, No more Heroes, Parental Crime, Politics, Privilege, Sad, Stereotype, Supremacy, Threat, Toxic, Training, Violence, World
Man claims discrimination in lawsuit filed over breakfast
A North Carolina man has filed a handwritten lawsuit against a fast food chain, saying he was discriminated against because he had too few hash browns with his breakfast order.
Tags: Court, Discrimination, Environmentalist, Food, New World Order, Race, Treatment, Weird
Patients' Needs, Not Personal Beliefs, Come First in Health Care
Since taking office, the Trump administration has launched a systematic attack on laws that exist to protect all of us from discrimination when we seek basic health care. Today, we're taking them back to court over it.
Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) resurrected a policy that allows health care providers — including hospitals, clinics, and doctors' offices — to use their religious beliefs to withhold critical information and obstruct patient's access to health care. In 2009, the ACLU challenged the original version of the rule. Ten years later, we filed a lawsuit to, once again, preserve access to evidence-based, nonjudgmental health care and ensure that medical standards — not religious belief — guide health care.
The Worst Patients in the World
Tags: Abortion, All Rights, Awareness, Choices, Discrimination, Employment, Environment, Exclusivity, Health, Hostility, Inhumanity, Injury, Insurance, Interference, Judgment, Magic Splatter, Medical, Mental Health, Misrepresentation, New World Order, Parental Burden, Politics, Privilege, Protections, Religion, Treatment, Waste
Why racist politics appeals to white women, explained by American history
"What is wrong with white women?" Moira Donegan asked at the Guardian after last week's midterm elections.
"Why do half of them so consistently vote for Republicans, even as the Republican party morphs into a monstrously ugly organization that is increasingly indistinguishable from a hate group?"
Questions about white women's allegiances came to the fore again this week, when news broke that a white woman senator facing a runoff in Mississippi had made a joke on the campaign trail about attending a "public hanging."
Progressives sometimes expect white women, as a group, to support the interests of people of color of all genders — after all, women know what discrimination feels like.
"Most of us continue to see white women through the lens of gender," explained Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, a history professor at UC Berkeley and the author of the forthcoming book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. "This allows for us to be optimistic about the possibility that their gendered oppression will allow for them to find common cause with other dispossessed groups."
But that common cause has been elusive.
Tags: Americans, Environment, Hate, History, New World Order, No more Heroes, Not Helping, Politics, Privilege, Racism, Representation, Self Interest, Self-hatred, Sexism, Stereotype, Supremacy, Voting, Women
PSYCHOLOGISTS DISCOVER DELUDED PEOPLE AND RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISTS MORE LIKELY TO BELIEVE FAKE NEWS
Scientists have found an overlap between people who believe in fake news and religious fundamentalists, dogmatic people and those who harbor deluded ideas.
Tags: Abuse, Govt, Ignorance, New World Order, Religion, Social Media, Study, Unruly Child
Customers Are Opting 'Out' of In-N-Out After $25,000 Donation to Republican Party
Opponents of the GOP are calling for an In-N-Out boycott after the burger chain donated thousands to the California Republican Party.
According to a public filing on the California Secretary of State's website, the fast food corporation gave $25,000 to the state's Republican Party on Tuesday. However, the news of the donation didn't start to go viral until the filing was tweeted out by Washington, D.C.-based reporter Gabe Schneider the next day.
Tags: Backlash, Finance, Fundraising, Junk Food, Magic Splatter, New World Order, Politics
Republicans admit they'll slash Medicare, Social Security to pay for their tax cuts
Slowly but surely, Republicans that supported the trillion dollar Trump tax bill are revealing their true motivations: slashing Medicare and Social Security.
During a Sunday interview with CNBC's John Harwood, Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) urged entitlement reform as the deficit continues to balloon as a result of the GOP tax cuts.
"I do think we need to deal with some of our spending," Stivers said. "We've got try to figure out how to spend less."
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