The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 7th August 2018
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While the Left has been fiddling about with much gnashing of teeth and tears of concern over the right of two Canadian neo-fascists to speak at an Auckland City council venue – National’s focus has been laser-like at regaining power in 2020.
Ari is a resilient, strong, beautiful, intelligent and kind transgender young woman who has faced many adversaries throughout her transition to her preferred gender. Ari has lived an incredible life resulting in a high level of maturity and an authentic view of the world we live in today. I admire Ari’s strength and transparency so I decided to approach her for an interview!
In her book Everyday Sexism, British author Laura Bates explains how girls and women are shaped by everyday discourse into gendered disadvantage. Whether it be pay, employment, daily life, love, or whatever, the systematic disadvantaging of women takes place all the time in every place that we live. How to explain the ‘inexplicable’ equal pay gap? Women are conditioned to have lower expectations and are much more likely to accept less. They value themselves lower than men do.
The look of terror on John Howard’s face at being photographed with Judith Collins is priceless.
5: The wise-cracking judge in Paul Manafort’s case may be starting to chill out
4: Indonesia: Major earthquake in Lombok kills scores
3: Chilling Testimony in a Tennessee Trial Exposes Lethal Injection as Court-Sanctioned Torture
2: A Slaughter in Silence: How Trump’s “America First” Policy Enabled Ethnic Cleansing in the DRC
1: Far-right protesters ‘ransack socialist bookshop in London’
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Southern and Molyneux were a pair of clowns who could have been easily bowled over, instead the outrage olympics of Twitter turned this molehill into a mountain and Southern and Molyneux were gifted the martyrdom they so desperately seek.
“Alright, alright – I surrender.”
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