#equality & stuff

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As the Actress said to the Bishop… #comeoutforlove

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"but I hope that if this next wave of the internet can bring one positive thing, it could be a shift away from having super-dominant cultures that everyone else feels obliged to anthropologically explain themselves to as people become more connected with more distant parts of the world."

To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

Ten years ago now, when I was teaching English in a German high school, I was checking an eighth grade student’s work and underlined an erro

Plus the retweet that I loved (transcription in alt text):

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Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction

I’ve always been aware of being an inconsistent personality. Of having a lot of contradictory voices knocking around my head. As a kid, I was ashamed of it. Other people seemed to feel strongly about themselves, to know exactly who they were. I was never like that. I could never shake the suspicion that everything about me was the consequence of a series of improbable accidents—not least of which was the 400 trillion–to-one accident of my birth. As I saw it, even my strongest feelings and convictions might easily be otherwise, had I been the child of the next family down the hall, or the child of another century, another country, another God. My mind wandered.

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I didn't receive that survey (I assume it was limited to UK members) but the linked document is reassuring in its sincerity, even outlining strategies as to how to do things. The targets are very textbook, but I believe they are representative for the UK.

(Also like... if someone is complaining about Doctor Who has gone too PC/SJW, the BBC are obligated to represent the population of Britain fairly and equally.)

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Gemma Arterton: ‘It’s easier to conform and shut up’

Gemma Arterton knows just how sexist the film world can be. Over lunch, she tells Eva Wiseman she’s fixing her career – then two celebrity fans show up…

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To all those who are saying, “Tolerance goes both ways…” …this isn’t tolerance. If you think this looks like tolerance, you do not know what tolerance looks like. You have confused tolerance with non-tolerance and that is actually a pretty big mistake.

Maureen Johnson

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Humanists ground values in human welfare shaped by human circumstances, interests, and concerns and extended to the global ecosystem and beyond. We are committed to treating each person as having inherent worth and dignity, and to making informed choices in a context of freedom consonant with responsibility.

HUMANISM AND ITS ASPIRATIONS