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equality

23/09/2014

Scoffed at the HeForShe Campaign? Right, Let’s Talk

If you haven’t seen it already, the next thing you should do today is watch the entirety of Emma Watson’s UN HeForShe speech. There has been a lot of news articles quoting it, but some of the most interesting parts weren’t cherry-picked as far as I remember, and watching and listening coveys her emotions a Continue reading

DISCUSS., Fuckin’ Idiots, Government and Politics, Internet, September 2014, Videos

Emma Watson, equality, feminism, gender equality, gendered marketing, girls living as boys in Afgahnistan, HeForShe, India acid attacks, Indifferent Ignorance, make up, social constructs, UN
04/02/2013

Gay Marriage and Ice Cream, or Something.

So, the tomorrow House of Commons is going to have a vote on whether everyone should be able to get married. Or rather, whether people who are not already married should be able to get married (let’s not legalise polygamy. Sherlock Holmes has taught us what happens if you join that slippery slope… or is Continue reading

DISCUSS., February 2013, Fuckin’ Idiots, Pure Insanity

equality, fuckin’ idiots, gay marriage, ice cream, Indifferent Ignorance, LGBT, Politics, racist Tory pieces of shit, religion, Tories