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well women feel pressured under testing situations, so they'll do great in leadership roles -- just give them a bit more time to decide on things.
yes, they extended testing time for all students; but the basis on which to do it was like mythbusters scientific method. (i.e., none whatsoever)
this is the quote that matters:
A document obtained by the Times, under Freedom of Information laws, showed that faculty at the university believed the changes could: 'mitigate the... gender gap that has arisen in recent years, and in any case the exam should be a demonstration of mathematical understanding and not a time trial.'
1. the gender gap isn't real.
2. in the real world, women have the same deadlines as men.
3. If they can't do well on the same test in the same period of time, why would adding a few minutes for both sexes for the test help? the will still do just as bad, just take longer to perform poorly.
4. If they do somehow do better, why limit testing to 190 dollars an hours, give students a working wage --- oh wait I'm confusing my liberal talking points here.
if women want to get paid as much as men here's one thing to try: perform as well or better than your peers at the same role.
here's another: ask for a raise
here's a third: don't leave work for 18 weeks, paid, to have a baby.
This behavior is somewhat common and tolerated in that part of the world.
This is the same part of the world where unescorted women are allowed to be raped. Unescorted children often suffer the same fate. As do unescorted goats (I wish I was making that up).
India also has a really bad problem with orphaned or destitute children living in slums along the rail line being sexually abused/killed. Saw a documentary on it a couple of years ago. ******* awful. Here's a charity working to help them: https://www.railwaychildren.org.uk/what-we-do/
Manchester Art Gallery in the U.K. has removed one of the most recognizable pre-Raphaelite works of art from its walls following an outcry from feminists.
Created in 1896, the Romantic-era painting by John William Waterhouse, titled Hylas and the Nymphs, depicts seven, nude female nymphs in a lily pond seducing a young man to into his demise.
The gallery questioned whether, in today’s political climate, the imagery may be offensive to contemporary audiences, reports The Guardian.
The painting was removed Friday, and the gallery installed a sign letting art-lovers and feminist crusaders alike know that the decision is meant to, ““to prompt conversations about how we display and interpret artworks in Manchester’s public collection.”
Clare Gannaway, speaking to the Guardian, said the decision came in the wake of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, attempting to exposed and end sexual misconduct against women in the entertainment industry.
The painting hung in a section of the gallery with plenty of 19th century female nudes, titled, “In Pursuit of Beauty.”
Gannaway lamented male artists fascination with women’s bodies, and paintings that presented the female body as a “passive decorative art form or a femme fatale,” reports the Guardian.
“For me personally, there is a sense of embarrassment that we haven’t dealt with it sooner. Our attention has been elsewhere … we’ve collectively forgotten to look at this space and think about it properly. We want to do something about it now because we have forgotten about it for so long,” Gannaway said.
Where the painting once hung, gallery-goers have taken to leaving Post-It notes sharing their views on its removal.
In January, the gallery posted a video to Twitter of an obese black man in white face and wearing a woman’s dress parading around the In Pursuit of Beauty room, with the caption “Responding to the artworks on display…”
The gallery has also ordered the removal of postcards featuring Waterhouse’s painting from its gift shop. Waterhouse is one of the best-known artists of his era. His Lady of Shalott postcard is one of Tate Britain’s bestsellers.
According to Cornell university, it's not OK for fat women to have consensual sex.
Cornell frat on probation after a ‘pig roast’ contest to have sex with overweight women
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. February 7 at 4:54 PM
The contestants — all pledges of Cornell’s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity — called their secret, fat-shaming sex game the “pig roast.”
The rules were simple: Would-be brothers allegedly earned points for having sex with overweight women. If there was a tie at the end, the victory went to whoever had slept with the heaviest woman. New members were told not to inform the women about the contest, according to a university report.
In 2017 the university’s Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life, which regulates fraternities and sororities, received reports about the alleged game, sparking an investigation by the university’s fraternity and sorority board that recently concluded.
The fraternity chapter has been put on a two-year probation, and the Ivy League university and the fraternity’s national office denounced the game, the latest example of a Greek organization behaving badly.
The board said the chapter violated university rules about Greek organizations that prohibits “sexually abusive behavior on the part of its members.”
It was unclear how long the contest had been going on or how many people participated.
In a lengthy statement on Facebook announcing the probation, the Cornell chapter of the fraternity said interactions connected to the game “were neither chapter sanctioned activities nor ones that brothers were aware of.”
“We, too, are in disbelief and even more so that these alleged actions may have been taken by those whom we called brothers,” the statement said.
Ryan Lombardi, Cornell’s vice president for student and campus life, called the game “abhorrent,” according to the Daily Sun, Cornell’s student newspaper.
“Behavior that degrades and dehumanizes women contributes to a climate and culture of tolerance for sexual violence,” he said.
The statement outlined corrective measures: The chapter will conduct a “full membership review,” expelling members as necessary. Fraternity brothers will also have to attend “multiple educational programs on the topics of healthy relationships.” Those programs will also be offered to the campus community at large. The fraternity is also getting a live-in adviser.
Zeta Beta Tau joins a growing list of fraternities that have been embarrassed and disciplined after horrific — and at times illegal — behavior.
In October, authorities arrested eight Louisiana State University students and two others on hazing charges related to the death of Maxwell Gruver, a freshman who died after a gathering at a school fraternity, The Washington Post’s Eli Rosenberg reported.
Gruver and other pledges were quizzed on fraternity history and told to drink if they answered incorrectly.
In December, the New Brunswick chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity at Rutgers University was shut down after members allegedly drugged members of a sorority with Xanax-spiked punch, according to NJ.com and the Daily Targum, Rutgers’s student newspaper.
And last month, a judge held Baruch College’s Pi Delta Psi fraternity directly responsible for the 2013 death of freshman Chun “Michael” Deng, a killing that drew national attention.
Cornell’s Greek organizations have also run into trouble recently.
In September, fraternity Psi Upsilon shut down its Cornell chapter after an alleged assault that authorities said was being investigated as a possible hate crime.
The same month, a fraternity member was accused of chanting “build the wall” near the Latino Living Center.
The incident happened shortly after the Trump administration announced it would phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children, the Daily Sun reported.
Not all fraternities demean their prospective members. Sigma Nu was founded at Virginia Military Institute just after the civil war by three cadets who were bothered by the hazing of underclassmen and specifically the death of a cadet in a hazing event. They explicitly forbid it to this day.
If I respect you enough to want you to be one of my fraternity brethren then why would I willfully demean you? It makes no sense. If they are good and decent guys with humble hearts you don't need to break them down to build them up. If they aren't good and decent guys with humble hearts you don't want them in your fraternity to start with. But I digress...
More evidence to support the theory that my generation is to blame for this...
Actual facebook post made by a person who I went to high school with (we're in our early forties at this point) who is a new mother, and is worried that her precious little angel is going to fall down and bump her head while learning to walk, just like every other human being has throughout all of history, and has decided that the toddler should probably wear a ******* helmet to protect her from the dangers associated with learning how to ******* walk.
Falling down hurts. This is a lesson that pretty much every human has learned on their own since we started walking upright. One of the very first cause-effect relationships that we become aware of as our consciousness is in its formative stages.
As a parent, it sucks to see your child in pain. But learning that if you do certain things (or fail to exercise caution when doing them) it will result in pain and discomfort, well, that's a pretty damned fact to discover. And as a matter of evolutionary biology, we as a species have been fortunate in that most of us discover it while our skulls are still pliable enough to absorb a little bruising without any serious, lasting harm.
Now, there are commercial products available to (and specifically towards) preventing humans from learning that actions have consequences.
This genuinely scares me. It terrifies me far more than the prospect of a nuclear war with North Korea.
More evidence to support the theory that my generation is to blame for this...
Actual facebook post made by a person who I went to high school with (we're in our early forties at this point) who is a new mother, and is worried that her precious little angel is going to fall down and bump her head while learning to walk, just like every other human being has throughout all of history, and has decided that the toddler should probably wear a ******* helmet to protect her from the dangers associated with learning how to ******* walk.
Was it Casey Anthony that wrapped her daughters head in bubble wrap and duct tape? Guess it kept her from falling down and hurting herself forever.
Was it Casey Anthony that wrapped her daughters head in bubble wrap and duct tape? Guess it kept her from falling down and hurting herself forever.
Oooooohhh. He went there.
Yes Joe, I think it would be wholly appropriate to point out the Casey Anthony wrapped her daughter's head in bubble wrap and duct tape to protect her and much the same way and see what sort of response you get.
Was it Casey Anthony that wrapped her daughters head in bubble wrap and duct tape? Guess it kept her from falling down and hurting herself forever.
Classy...
As a father of two young children I know kids fall down and it only really hurts if you see them do it, else they get back up and keep going!
My kid came home from school a week or so back with a big black eye from where he fell into one of the stumps they have in the play yard around the picnic table. I asked him what his teacher said , she said he could have an ice pack or keep playing! That's education right there. Trey's 4. I might not agree with all of the Waldorf stuff but that right there is worth every penny.
A student complaint over a “racially insensitive menu” for a Black History Month meal at New York University has led to firings and an apology from the food service company.
Food is now political.
Following a complaint by Nia Harris, a 19-year-old sophomore at NYU’s College of Arts and Science, NYU President Andrew Hamilton says it was “inexcusably insensitive” for the caterer, Aramark, to feature barbecued ribs, corn bread, collard greens, and fruit-flavored water—all of which were deemed to be stereotypically black.
Despite an explanation from the head cook to Harris that the employees who planned the menu were African Americans, the student—and the school—were not having it.
Following the clarification, Harris fired off a screenshot of the email exchange to Facebook, captioning it with a post that began with the words, “This is what it’s like to be a black student at New York University.”
The email led to Hamilton’s statement condemning the menu, adding that it had been prepared without any input from the university, and that the “error was compounded by the insensitivity of the replies” written by the cook.
Hamilton offered an apology to the student, stating that the school’s dining administrators “will insist that Aramark put in place a mechanism to avoid a repeat of yesterday’s episode, such as consulting the existing student advisory body and campus cultural groups about the menu for special events.”
Aramark capitulated to the complaints and fired the employees responsible for the menu, stating: “We have zero tolerance for any employee who does not adhere to our values or contradicts our longstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.”
All this over soul food proposed and prepared by African American cooks.
So, instead of just enjoying a nice meal, this little ---- went off and got the cooks "I forgot his name" fired. I guess they're just "little people" and don't count, even (especially) if they were trying to do something nice. Way to go! And they think Trump is the monster?!? They think they are the oppressed?!?
NYU certainly missed an opportunity to teach a life lesson to this young ignoramus, didn't they?
WTF?
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