Change Is Always Good But Not Always Desirable
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“Our Constitution contains no right to refuse service to a disfavored group.”
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ALTI am at once cracking up at the absurdity and the accuracy of this!
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ALOK VAID-MENON
Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness 1x03 (2022)
Alok’s book report of The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Dr. Kyla Schuller
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💰💼 In 2022, the average hourly labour costs were estimated to be €30.5 in the EU and €34.3 in the euro area
The lowest hourly labour costs in 🇧🇬 Bulgaria (€8.2) and 🇷🇴 Romania (€9.5), and the highest in 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (€50.7), 🇩🇰 Denmark (€46.8) and 🇧🇪 Belgium (€43.5).
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The Wrath of Becky (2023) dirs. Suzanne Coote, Matt Angel
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As productivity has increased and wages remained stagnant or decreased, this is overdue
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(via Turkish woman allegedly kills abusive husband, becomes social media icon)
“Will women always die? Let some men die too,” Dogan told police. “I killed him for my honor.”
Since it was not included in the article, I thought I would provide a rough translation of her historical defense on court;
“When men wear suits and look down they get their sentences lowered; I dont have a suit, my mom barely managed to find this shirt for me. I won’t lie, there is also the joy of being able to survive that i can’t conceal. I’ve walked the corridors of these courthouses countless times, my face covered in bruises, for a restraining order. I didn’t have any other choice. If he hadn’t died, I was going to. He wasn’t going to tell you he had decided to pimp me out, he wasn’t going to talk about his plans of putting me in the arms of other men, he wasn’t going to tell you about the beatings I endured just because the eggplants were slightly overcooked, because the curtains were dirty, because there were leftover crumbs on the table. He wasn’t going to mention how many times I was hospitalized. There is a picture of me taken in the teahouse. I’ve smiled a bit lopsidedly. Maybe he was going to show you that picture and tell you I looked like a dishonorable woman. He was going to tell you he ‘cleansed my honor’ as if he wasn’t planning to pimp me out. You were going to sentence him to 3-5 years and pardon him because i had dishonored him and see my lopsided smile as provocation and feel sad for him. However, honor is mine Mr. Judge, I won’t leave it to anyone else just because I signed a paper.”
her name is Çilem Doğan and she was sentenced to 15 years for this. the court initially wanted to give her life imprisonment. she was released on bail in june 2016 and has since become a symbol for the movement against femicide and violence against women in Turkey.
