I wonder what the crossover is between "Democrats will force us to eat bugs" and people who loved the all you can eat shrimp at Red Lobster? Sea bugs are still bugs people!!!
"Patriarchy has everything to do with men, but at the same time, nothing at all. In a male-centered society where maleness is associated with power, what’s really being centered is power itself. What’s suppressed is mutual relationality. Patriarchy is intertwined with colonialism, racism, and other oppressive social structures based on hierarchy. It is a fundamental fracturing of our human wholeness."
"In patriarchal societies where masculinity is coded as power and control, men often try to get closer to women through power and control. The range of how this plays out is vast. It could be inconsequential, or it could end a woman’s life. This is why seemingly small comments, gestures, or implications often trigger full-body vigilance. It may also be a reason why so many women in the “Man or Bear” debate chose the bear. "
“One of my favorite writers, Prentis Hemphill, wrote, “Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.” To love myself in patriarchy, I’ve often had to put a lot of distance between myself and men.”
In the latest round of Legault handing out favors to rich people and jobs they're the least qualified to do....bet she pitched him on private hotel hospitals or some bullshit. Things really are not okay in Quebec.
"A hotel magnate has been appointed as chairperson of the board of directors of Santé Québec, one of several pro-business appointments to the agency that will manage the province’s beleaguered health system."
Just to be clear, it's extremely hard for a nation to reverse and heal the damage conservative governments do, particularly when the next government is neoliberal and not actually leftist or worker-oriented in any real way. Canada still hasn't recovered from having Harper in power, this is because it takes a lot of conviction and steadfastness for a politician to actually stand up to the rich and international corporations (and the integrity to be able to pass up oodles of rewards for fucking over workers after leaving office, like cushy positions on the boards of corporations that destroy nature and workers lives...). AND it's because it's much, much easier to tear things down and sell them off than it is to build institutions and social service networks.
How are the Greens doing in England, any chance of them as an option? (Starmer is not going to do anything other than continue to pander to the rich and racist. So sad Labour was subverted from wtihin...again!)
So Biden's government threatening the ICF for doing it's job is just something else. The US has always refused to be responsible to the rest of the world but now Biden is trying to take down the ICF and UN....just like Trump wants and threatens to do. This won't make Trump voters switch to him but it will certainly make it clear that the US is out of control and make it much harder for a lot of America's allies who are already uncomfortable with the moves the US is making.
It's somewhat delightful to have the rest of the world start to realize what a dangerous monster Gina Rinehart is. Art is having a good week in the portraiture division between the blood soaked portrait of King Charles and Vincent Namatjira's not even that unflattering portrait (considering Rinehart's actual face).
Good to see this being clearly spelled out, we really do need to be talking about Netanyahu's corruption and genocidal ideology and not some mythical idea of Israel that is held by many in the Jewish diaspora and which obscures the reality of of what has been going on in Israel (much to the horror of many Israelis).
So all these university shenanigans to avoid accountability about their finances are starting to make me wonder just how corrupt and how regularly abused the relationship between university boards/board members and their investment policies are? I'm now assuming it's a massive ouroboros of wealthy people being highly corrupt (and telling themselves their corruption is actually ethical really). The more elite they are, the worse they are apparently.
I cannot think of anything more depressing and symbolic of the decline of the West than watching two incredibly out of touch, greedily rich, warmongering geriatric White men mumbling and blustering insults sourced from the 1950s at each other onstage. Talk about a sad and tawdry cargo cult performance of pseudo-democracy.
Average White men totally overestimate the power of individuals because they're systemically privileged. Of course, they also just get murdered if they actually blow the whistle on the system in any meaningful way. Most of the rest of us have quite a different relationship to power and the system.
Just so fucking depressing to wake up to more genocide and to know that no amount of going to protests and letter writing is going to get our governments to do the right thing and not be complicit in genocide.
@fifilamoura The situation makes me immensely angry (and feeling helpless), too.
Something moves ... the U.S. put a hold last week on a shipment of U.S.-made weapons to Israel. EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell and EU commissions chief von der Leyen condemn the new call of Israel.
The problem is that Netanyahu doesn't listen to anyone. Probably only his own people can stop and depose him .