@UNSRVAW How many women will it take? How much harm has to be done? When will people wake up to the fact that incarcerated women deserve and need safety and protection from violent men! #KPSS
It turns out that if you gut CBS news, gut 60 Minutes, promise to gut CNN, cancel Colbert, get $29B in Saudi, Qatari & UAE money, and hold a weird lavish banquet for the President and acting AG in a federal building… you can get your illegal merger approved by the DOJ.
@nuuska@Shari42514246@InterestingSTEM Talking about things that affect us makes us victims? Wow, I never knew that. Thanks for mansplaining it. So helpful.
Taxpayers paid for over $38 billion in subsidies and government contracts for Space X, and Elon Musk gets to be a trillionaire off of our tax dollars.
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@Shari42514246@InterestingSTEM I didn’t know that specific fact but I’m aware of the history. Women were calling it out in the 60s and 70s. Some even before then, for sure. Our entire global society was built around the average male. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez lays this out in stark detail.
That mirrored gazing ball in your garden might have a bird wearing itself ragged against an enemy that doesn't exist.
Male cardinals, robins, mockingbirds, and towhees defend their territory hard, wired to drive off any rival male they see. A reflective ornament hands them one that never backs down.
The bird sees itself in the curved glass, reads it as an intruder sitting in the middle of its nesting territory, and attacks. It can go for hours a day, for weeks, right when it should be feeding a mate and raising chicks. All of it burns energy the family needs, against a rival that never leaves.
Smaller birds can also collide with the sky reflected on a large mirrored surface, the same way they hit windows.
You don't have to toss it. Move it where birds don't patrol, tuck it low in dense foliage so it doesn't read as open sky, or bring it in through the spring breeding season and set it back out after.
The bird thinks it's protecting its family. It's exhausting itself against a threat that's only ever its own reflection.
Women have been saying for years that there is a growing backlash against gender equality, and every time the conversation comes up we’re told we’re imagining it.
Now the United Nations is saying it.
According to a UN report, nearly 1 in 4 countries reported setbacks in women’s rights and gender equality. Hundreds of millions of women and girls are living in conflict zones, violence against women remains widespread, and UN officials are warning about a growing backlash against women’s rights worldwide.
The part that stands out to me isn’t even the statistics. It’s that women have been raising concerns about misogyny, online hostility toward women, violence, and attacks on reproductive rights for years, only to be dismissed as overreacting.
If the UN Secretary-General is warning about the “mainstreaming of misogyny,” maybe it’s time to stop pretending these concerns came out of nowhere.
Do you think women’s rights are genuinely facing setbacks, or do you think organizations like the UN are exaggerating the problem?