/r/Equality
This is a subreddit for discussion and conversation concerning the topics of equality in all subjects (such as racial equality, age equality et cetera) but mainly focusing on sex/gender equality.
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There's a glass ceiling in the US. I'm a decently accomplished entrepreneur in the country I belong to. I want to get into Silicon Valley, checked a program that can help, applied, the team had a look at my credentials, I give our deck and more details. I follow-up through mail for more than 2 months, requesting them for a decision. I tried, again, and again with few more applications, and this keeps on happening for 8 months after various inflection points in my startup, whereas other applicants who are white people and just starting out with a startup idea from being a college student get in the program with little to no experience, nor team, nor traction in their ventures.
This accelerator program expected warm intros. I finally get an intro with great difficulty. This accelerator program's team then replies since they've created a social media image that their program is all about helping people. Now I get a message from their team, I ask him for a brief call anytime he's available, follow-up for 3 weeks. Again they ghosted me for 2 months and I never get a reply. What really disappoints me is how they've created an online image that their entire team is kind and helpful, but the reality is just cold, rude and discriminating.
It feels like a club, a club in which I am not allowed to enter despite being eligible, and this doesn't let me sleep at night. Is the entire US like this ?
I am no stranger to feeling terrible, but for the first time in my adult life I feel discriminated for who I am. I feel so let down and am totally broken from within due to this incident and mind you I have a fairly thick skin due to the struggles I've been through personally in my journey, but this broke my core đ
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They don't do this in China. They don't do this is Russia. They don't do this in Iran -- but the GOP (now known as MAGA) will take religious crackpottery to a new level and if given the opportunity will monitor the pregnancy of all American women. Forget about your right to privacy, the Christo-fascists will decree you must submit to multiple vaginal examinations in order to maintain complete control over women and their bodies.
First, their aim is to outlaw contraception, but if their efforts should fail their back-up plan is even more odious. Again, if Republicans are voted into office they will track the menstrual cycles of our wives, sisters, and daughters to determine if a woman had an perfectly legal, medically needed abortion, and then bring charges against her.
This is madness, this is MAGA, and this is what will happen if you vote for any Republican, anywhere in America!
Read this report -- italics mine.
In a new, wide-ranging interview with Time magazine, former president Donald Trump said he would be fine with states tracking peopleâs pregnancies in order to prosecute those who have abortions past a given stateâs gestational limit. âI think they might do that,â Trump said in response to the question of whether states âshould monitor womenâs pregnancies so they can know if theyâve gotten an abortion after the ban.â âAgain, youâll have to speak to the individual states,â he said.
When the reporter asked whether Trump would be comfortable with states prosecuting women for having abortions â a throwback to the notorious 2016 campaign moment when he received backlash for saying women should face âsome sort of punishmentâ for illegal abortions â he said, âItâs irrelevant whether Iâm comfortable or not. Itâs totally irrelevant because the states are going to make those decisions.â
The answer went viral on X, where several journalists, politicians, and influential Democrats compared the notion of pregnancy tracking to the plot of The Handmaidâs Tale. But this is not some far-fetched scenario. Itâs already happened in recent years, both under the first Trump administration and in Missouri.
News of the Trump administrationâs pregnancy tracking first surfaced in late 2017 when four teenage migrants sued the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) for keeping a weekly spreadsheet of information about the pregnancies of minors in its custody, including the gestational age of the fetus, whether the pregnancy arose from consensual sex, and whether each girl had requested an abortion. While a federal judge forbade the agency from trying to interfere with pregnant minors getting abortions in March 2018, Vice reported the following year that the agency continued to maintain the database despite the court order.
Later in 2019, the director of Missouriâs state health department admitted during a legal battle over the license for the stateâs last remaining Planned Parenthood clinic that he had directed an investigator to compile a spreadsheet monitoring patientsâ period. The purpose of the database, according to the Kansas City Star, was to try to identify patients whoâd had âfailed abortionsâ as the state attempted to shut down abortion clinics. The subject line of the email circulated among health-department staffers, which was found through legal discovery, read, âDuplicate ITOPs [Induced Termination of Pregnancy] with last normal menses date.â
Both the Missouri and ORR revelations occurred years before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. But the threat of similar surveillance looms large post-Dobbs. Democratic state legislators in Virginia, a purple state that allows abortions up to 26 weeks and where the issue often swings elections, tried to preemptively block a pregnancy-tracking situation in 2023 by passing a bill that would ban search warrants from obtaining peopleâs menstrual data. Democrats were responding to a new threat flagged by privacy experts that law enforcement could seize data from period-tracking apps to prosecute women for having abortions. But Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, reportedly thwarted that measure from becoming law. The same year, the Florida High School Athletic Administrationâs board of directors voted to remove questions about high-school girlsâ menstrual histories from a questionnaire students had to fill out in order to participate in sports after weeks of controversy about how the information could be used under Governor Ron DeSantisâs anti-abortion and anti-trans agenda...
https://www.thecut.com/article/trump-time-interview-pregnancy-tracking.html
(This is to get back to the bear shit)
Cat: May scratch you, may hiss at you. But if you feed it and leave it alone, you might even get to pet it
Woman: Will never leave you alone whatever you do, gets mad at you multiple times every day. But she loves and cares for you
Hello people,
More and more, people on social media openly talk about men as if a group of dangerous creatures and predators. People openly talk about how mens' rights should be taken from them.
I am aware that many men take advantage of being who they are, but we all are not all this. There are so many genuinely good-hearted men who try to make the world a better place for everyone.
Today I came across a popular IG page which openly says that the male population should be limited to 10%. They agree on an opinion of an activist that openly supported this view.
There is no room for such opinion in our modern society.
Could you please report their comment and their story sharing the same opinion?
It can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzq4u-6h8g_/
The more we report and limit such posts, the safer this world will be for everyone.
Thank you.
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In the past Trump has sunk to limitless depths to at least demean black voters when he wasn't trying to disenfranchise them altogether. He has aligned himself with every racist, white supremacist and pro-Nazi group while enjoying the support of the GOP and MAGA cabal in a never ending battle to keep blacks from the polls.
Now, in a move beyond shameless, he is pandering to the same voters he so viciously slandered. Trump will lie about any subject at any time, and then when it seems convenient will contradict himself without a blush or stammer, and now is actually seeking support from the very same people he frequently disparages.
You can't make this stuff up.
Look at this -- Italics mine.
Trump supporters target Black voters with bigoted radio ads.
An organization allied with Donald Trump is relying on ads chock-full of right-wing lies and propaganda to deter Black voters from casting ballots for President Biden.
April 29, 2024, 4:03 PM EDT
By Ja'han Jones
Donald Trump and his allies are trying to appeal to Black voters with overpriced sneakers, fried chicken, past-their-prime rappers and, now, some plain old bigotry to boot. In recent months, Trump-allied groups have begun running radio ads targeting voters in largely Black areas that push a raft of offensive claims as they seek to undermine support for President Joe Biden. The ads were highlighted by sports journalist Jemele Hill over the weekend during her coverage of the NFL draft in Detroit.
"Donât know if people have heard these ads Trumpâs campaign is running on urban radio but they are WILD,â Hill wrote, âas in wildly filled with massive misinformation, sprinkled in with some bigotry.â
Hill didn't share an example, but a similar-sounding ad called âOur Communitiesâ was launched by the pro-Trump organization MAGA Inc. in March and schedule for airtime in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The ad is chock-full of MAGA misinformation. In it, a narrator claims that Biden is âletting Mexican cartels pump drugs and fentanyl into our streets,â that heâs âbusing rapists and murderers into our communities,â and that the âcrooks in Congress are handing our tax dollars to illegals.â
Itâs hard to choose where to start with the corrections.
Trump has promoted racist generalizations of Mexican immigrants as drug-dealers, killers and rapists from the moment he publicly launched his first campaign bid in 2015, despite that data shows immigrants tend to commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens. Thereâs certainly no evidence the Biden administration is letting cartels âpump drugsâ into American streets. In fact, thereâs ample evidence to the contrary. And despite zero-sum rhetoric about immigrants receiving jobs, privileges and welfare benefits over American citizens, these claims keep being proven false.
The ad also pushed anti-trans bigotry, underscoring a phenomenon I've highlighted in the past: Trump and his minions trying to spread their anti-trans agenda through Black communities. The narrator claims Trump will âprotect our daughtersâ sports teamsâ from âmen competing against womenâ and âstop the sexualization of our children.â Experts who oversee womenâs sports have said trans peopleâs involvement doesnât rank anywhere near their industriesâ top issues. And letâs just say that Trump is an unusual choice when making the case against sexualizing children.
The ad is an obvious attempt to indoctrinate Black voters with a MAGA worldview. But it was so packed with bigoted propaganda, it felt like it needed a disclaimer at the end like a prescription drug ad. Perhaps a fast-talking narrator at the end could note that side effects of electing Trump include attacks on Black election workers, installation of judges whoâve gutted Black voting rights, accusations against largely Black cities of election fraud, vows to shield police accused of violent misconduct, open association with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, a full-on assault on Black history in schools, and routine public attacks on Black women.
Ja'han Jones
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-black-voters-radio-ads-biden-rcna149854
Women always complain that men have more privileges than women but they forget that they can have sex toys, wear male/female clothes, make-up, etc etc.
As for work, women don't go into the high paying jobs on average. Women earn more than men in the Porn industry, Only fans, modelling, etc
Today I had such an infuriating conversation with a man I used to like. It was almost like he was purposely hitting such a sexist sore spot to hurt me. And for a moment I thought he couldn't possibly understand what it is like to be a woman, to be so constantly sexualized and seen as a toy. The more I thought about it the more I realized how wrong that was. He knows almost exactly what it's like, being a man and being seen as a protector and provider...a lot of men are used as nothing more than emotionless tools. We have everything we need to understand each other....the pain of being nothing more than an object. So why can't we? I often get so angry at all the men that made me feel this way, that treated me so poorly...I resent men..how can I ever trust that I won't be disrespected. When he says sexist things...I can feel the hurt and resentment towards women ....we made each other this way and will we always be stuck in a cycle of resentment and disrespect? How...do we break this..
Bodybuilders always were the Hogan pendant over their bulging chests, but do they actually know that Jesus Christ talks about helping and caring for others ?
Eating 4 times what a normal human being eats ain't be caring for others when there's only food for 1,5 times the world's population.
Neither is helping their roid-caused lack of patience.
But I guess only their good-life-advice insta captions count towards the Lord's final day judgment.
If people arenât getting hired because of race, wouldnât all persons of that race struggle to get good jobs? Wouldnât it be better to spend money building up those communities, changing to a winning culture and fixing this once and for all? At least then it wouldnât been forced and those people could would feel truly accepted in the new role.
What is the final goal? Does anyone know? There has been a lot of talk about this but no has said what needs to happen for us to all be equal.
I always notice that when there is a conversation about porn, female pornstars are encouraged to make it. They are told that if they need money that they should make as much porn as they want and it should not be seen as a problem. However, women also claim that a man should not watch the porn, which doesn't make sense to me. For example, if a girl wants to have an onlyfans, people would tell that girl's boyfriend to not be insecure if she ends up making one, especially since she is getting paid. However, if that boyfriend ends up watching porn or even subscribing to a different girl's onlyfans, he is shamed for it? Why is this?
So I've been struggling to understand both of this stereotypes but all I think is that they are the same, so would you mind educate me what is Sex Stereotypes and Sexual Stereotypes? It would be a big help if you could also give an example, thankies âșïžâșïž
Curious as to what folks believe this movement emphasizes, the goals and how to approach it. What I really do not understand is the lack of tie in to inputs that lead to outcomes. Hard work results in better outcomes than those that do not. Effective preparation and strategy coupled with hard work leads to better outcomes than just hard work alone. This makes sense to me. But as I stated, Iâm just trying to understand the movement in detail and how achieving that goal would work.
The modern world of academic publishing has become a minefield of bad incentives, especially for new and non-wealthy researchers. This article gives some background, offers some ideas, and speaks with a bunch of academics to get their thoughts.
https://americandreaming.substack.com/p/publish-and-impoverish
Equality is a lie change my mind, I'm a 20 year old male.
Thereâs nothing complex about bigotry
âHeâs a complicated guy.â
That was Bill Maherâs response when reputed business and technology journalist Kara Swisher recited the list of petulant insults that multi-billionaire tech tycoon Elon Musk directed her way in response to coverage he deemed insufficiently reverent.
âOh, okay. Sure, why not?â, Swisher shot back. âHow about heâs just not a complicated guy? Heâs just a jerk.â
Maherâs rebuttal is as illustrative as it is nonsensical.
âI can easily prove heâs a complicated guy. Because yesterday I saw on the news somebody who was paralyzed, who was giddy with happiness, because he was being able to play video games with his mind.âMORE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Hi!
I've recently become an equality, diversity and inclusion lead where I work, a lab in the NHS, and as you can imagine that doesn't really come with a budget or anything.
I've spent the last couple of mornings looking for any online communities or forums to discuss and help develop content with other people in similar positions, because I'm very aware that while I identify with some minority identities I don't want to neglect or do badly subjects like race, culture, disabilities I don't know more about, so on and so fourth.
So to summarise; Are there any spaces online like this, either for free resource/idea/event sharing, or for open discussion with others? If I set up a subreddit would anyone be interested? Or is there a better platform?
Equally, if this is the wrong place for asking this I'm sorry, and very open to suggestions for where to go instead. As far as I could tell this was the best place to ask.
The term 'man cold' offends me mildly. But I'm having trouble articulating why.
New to the sub but what are people's thoughts on the topic?
I think that at the root of the term it's poking fun at men in the same way 90s sitcoms always made dads out to be idiots for the sake of the comedy?