I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.
No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
These rights I consider to be human rights but I am one of the lucky ones. My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn’t assume I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influencers were the gender equality ambassadors that made who I am today. They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who are. And we need more of those. And if you still hate the word—it is not the word that is important but the idea and the ambition behind it. Because not all women have been afforded the same rights that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been.
In 1997, Hilary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights. Sadly many of the things she wanted to change are still a reality today.
But what stood out for me the most was that only 30 per cent of her audience were male. How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
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If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.
Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong… It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.
If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are—we can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about. It’s about freedom.
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Hola Ms Raine. Did you need you bag yesterday for the Giants game?
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I really don't understand why not shitting on half the population is such a difficult thing for so many people to understand. Why so threatened by women being equal to men, RWLMs? Liberate your sorry selves and embrace modernity.
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Hola Ms Raine. Did you need you bag yesterday for the Giants game?
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I really don't understand why not shitting on half the population is such a difficult thing for so many people to understand. Why so threatened by women being equal to men, RWLMs? Liberate your sorry selves and embrace modernity.
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Mornin' all..
My hip still hurts from yesterday - from the school bus ride, not the march! Those things are NOT designed for grown adults.
House Administration Committee Chairwoman Candice Miller (R-Mich.) signed a new contract on Friday with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart’s William Burck after David Rivkin, an attorney with Baker & Hostetler, pulled out from the case.
Baker & Hostetler faced pressure “political pressure,†a Republican leadership aide said after taking the lawsuit on, prompting Rivkin to break his contract with House Republicans. A House staffer said the change of firms came after multiple clients of Baker & Hostetler expressed concern that the firm was engaged in what the companies saw as an overtly partisan lawsuit.
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OMG! I'm an idiot!!!!!!!!
RAINE! How did I miss your birthday!!!!!!?????
I'm so sorry!!! Please accepts this puppy pile of hugs
And this awesome Fraggle Rock cake
And my apologies for missing it when the date was staring at me on the calendar. #Iamabadfriend
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OMG! I'm an idiot!!!!!!!!
RAINE! How did I miss your birthday!!!!!!?????
I'm so sorry!!! Please accepts this puppy pile of hugs
And this awesome Fraggle Rock cake
And my apologies for missing it when the date was staring at me on the calendar. #Iamabadfriend
But thank you anyway!
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OUTLOOK!
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OUTLOOK!
Outlook! Slowly I turned... The worst email, contact management and calendar software ever. It does nothing well!
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OUTLOOK!
Outlook! Slowly I turned... The worst email, contact management and calendar software ever. It does nothing well!
It crashes pretty well I'd say.
Such elements have made Watson a target of intense interest, of which the 4chan site “Emma You Are Next†is merely the latest instance. The site includes a countdown clock set to four days from Monday, September 22; an image of Watson wiping away tears; and the message, “Never forget, the biggest to come thus far.â€
The first group of nude photographs hacked from the iCloud by 4chan users included a number of images taken when their subjects were minors. The 4chan site makes no indication of when the photographs of the now 24-year-old Watson it allegedly obtained were taken.
Business Insider is claiming that the site is merely another 4chan hoax, “a prank designed to increase the notoriety of [the] anonymous message board…In the past, 4chan users have tried to convince people to microwave their iPhones, break their Xbox consoles, #EndFathersDay and self-harm for Justin Bieber.â€
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4Chan sucks. Seriously sucks...Such elements have made Watson a target of intense interest, of which the 4chan site “Emma You Are Next†is merely the latest instance. The site includes a countdown clock set to four days from Monday, September 22; an image of Watson wiping away tears; and the message, “Never forget, the biggest to come thus far.â€
The first group of nude photographs hacked from the iCloud by 4chan users included a number of images taken when their subjects were minors. The 4chan site makes no indication of when the photographs of the now 24-year-old Watson it allegedly obtained were taken.
Business Insider is claiming that the site is merely another 4chan hoax, “a prank designed to increase the notoriety of [the] anonymous message board…In the past, 4chan users have tried to convince people to microwave their iPhones, break their Xbox consoles, #EndFathersDay and self-harm for Justin Bieber.â€
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Fuck you 4Chann assholes! FUCK YOU!
Business Insider report is quick to add that this site is likely just a “prank.†You know, just one of those super-funny pranks where garbage people try to intimidate and silence women by threatening to invade their privacy and, as Anne Hathaway put it to a leering, totally out-of-line Matt Lauer, “commodify the sexuality of unwilling participants.â€
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Fuck you 4Chann assholes! FUCK YOU!Business Insider report is quick to add that this site is likely just a “prank.†You know, just one of those super-funny pranks where garbage people try to intimidate and silence women by threatening to invade their privacy and, as Anne Hathaway put it to a leering, totally out-of-line Matt Lauer, “commodify the sexuality of unwilling participants.â€
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Fuck you 4Chann assholes! FUCK YOU!
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The best moment of the march yesterday. Dead silence in the middle of New York City for two minutes, then this AMAZING rolling soundwave just comes crashing at us!
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The best moment of the march yesterday. Dead silence in the middle of New York City for two minutes, then this AMAZING rolling soundwave just comes crashing at us!
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Ah shit.. the follow-up protest today is about to get nasty.
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Yes, Meet the Press could actually get worse and did.
I welcome you you Idiocracy, REAL LIFE.
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Yes, Meet the Press could actually get worse and did.
I welcome you you Idiocracy, REAL LIFE.
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Good day, folks.
Mala, the book of faces reminded me of Raine's birthday so on that it seems more reliable.
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Summer is leaving / now we'll whine about the cold/ how soon we forget