Sometimes male anger at ‘women getting special treatment’ reminds me of a gorilla experiment. One gorilla gets a banana every hour. The females next to him get one every four hours. Then someone decides to be fairer and gives the females a banana every two hours instead. The original gorilla? He flips out. He's still getting his banana every hour, but it feels like a loss because his advantage shrank. That's how a lot of men react to basic fairness for women: not as justice, but as theft.
Normalize telling boys the stories of what women in the family went through. Boys seem to hear "grandma makes the best turkey" while daughters hear "grandma was married at 14."
Tell the boys the cost of their favorite meals, too.
Which makes it so disappointing that Emma Watson tried to both sides the Gaza genocide by repeating the propaganda that armed resistance against the occupation is terrorism and falsely equating it to the IDF. Even saying 50,000 Palestinians died which was not only a shamefully incorrect figure but she refused to say they were killed by Israel. An embarrassing activist that enabled the dehumanisation of Palestinians and has remained silent since.
Ridiculous of the British Museum to remove the word 'Palestine" from its displays, when it has a greater antiquity than the word "British". The first reference to Palestine is on the Egyptian monument of Medinet Habu in 1186BCE. The first reference to Britain is the 4th century BC when it appears in the work of the Greek traveler Pytheas of Massalia.
My cousin said his girl always says no when he asks her if she needs anything.
I'm like bro, you can NEVER ask an independent woman if there's anything she needs you to do for her. Her answer will ALWAYS be NO (even if there is), because her pride and her self-reliance is ALL she knows. So if you want to do something for her, you have to just DO IT. It will show your initiative, and it will make her more comfortable with the idea of depending on you.
Thomas Massie: "I am sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to Rape Island… How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when there are rich men in handcuffs being perp-walked to the jail."