maybe now is the time we admit that media impartiality is a myth, and a dangerous one at that. there is absolutely no such thing as unbiased reporting. of anything, at any level, ever. very important we realise this. the arbiter of impartiality is the arbiter of the status quo
anyone else wake up with cold sweats thinking about the ~discourse that's gonna happen when the queen pops off... i preemptively cannot be fucking arsed
sorry but "behaviour hubs" are such an obvious and absolutely hilarious example of a group of management consultants focus-grouping their way to the worst possible solution to a social problem
on a zoom training course for work and i forgot my profile pic is a fucking BEAN and it won't let me remove it mid-zoom :) hello fellow learners, stay calm, i am but a simple bean
@claire_h_e not done this specifically but you could let the ESL learners work in pairs, or give the native speakers a hard time limit? or double points for ESL, but that might feel unfair for the native speakers. maybe double points for ESL learners if they can define the word in English?
easter often gets overlooked as a boring holiday but i think of all the events in the christian religious calendar it was definitely the biggest face crack
let's also not overlook the fact they are effectively (further) criminalising the existence of Romani travellers and not only are most people not even batting an eyelid, the population of little england are rejoicing. i fucking hate it here
once again worth restating that comparing things the british government does to e.g. north korea, venezuela, as opposed to accepting that this is what the british government is, and has always been, is unhelpful. horrible, horrible little plague island to its core
that said... choosing to respond to protest not by hearing or reacting to the issues raised but instead outlawing the act itself is like.. pretty textbook authoritarian and fucking scary lmao. the fact ppl seem be in support of it is even scarier
dont know how else to put this, but as men - we are factually not women. we do not share the same struggle. constantly trying to position ourselves there is harmful. as a male-dominated group, it is still up to us to reflect and have these converstions, and ultimately do better
feel it's high time the gay community had a serious reflection + discussion about our relationship with women. just because we *feel* we don't pose a threat, this doesnt mean that our interactions with and discussions about women aren't tarred with a deep rot of misogyny
aside from the fact that, as men, we will never, ever, not pose a threat to women - we do regularly overstep marks in ways which perhaps straight men don't. we seem to believe we have a free pass - that we're "one of the girls". why would this mean we can blur boundaries anyway?
you ever find it weird that, yes, you take on the mannerisms + linguistic quirks of your friends subconsciously, but this also logically means they do the same with you?? like - what are my mannerisms??? what are they like with other people?? who's accommodating more here?? aaaaa