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Important allyship
Former Saturday Night Live host Dan Levy has called out Shane Gillis over remarks he made about women during his SNL opening monologue this past weekend.
Levy specifically took issue with a portion of Gillis' monologue in which the comedian described going to the gym and observing that "women just dress like whores now."
Responding in an Instagram Reel, Levy said: "Women wearing short shorts at the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists. There's a difference there. By the way, I've seen more men's nipples at the gym than I've ever seen women showing their bodies off."
"But I'm speechless that something like that can exist on live national television. And to be perfectly honest, more men need to be standing up in opposition to it because it's complacency that has created the environment in which women are sexually assaulted and it's a 'conversation' as opposed to a 'crime.'"
"This is not a women's issue, this is an everybody issue. Because the more that men objectify women in the media, the more that other men see them as objects and treat them as objects. They are not objects. They are superior human beings to men, OK? And I'm sorry if this gets me in trouble with the internet, but fuck."
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BREAKING: Three weeks from her election Trump’s DHS just raided the home of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.
The authoritarian interference in our elections continues.
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“Guys, you don’t get it, his humor is just like that. He’s actually an amazing boyfriend 🥰” That man doesn’t see you as a human being. Some men disguise cruelty as humor because making a woman feel small is easier than treating her as an equal.
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When the Guardian went on strike to protest the Observer sale, I became a de facto spokesperson. Later a Tortoise employee I’d never met wrote to me to cancel my 20-year contract. No goodbye & no pay-off. This is how they now take credit for my work..but write me out of the story
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NEW: Ten years on, Prime Minister @andyburnham tells @campbellclaret & @RoryStewartUK that there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote.
FINALLY after years of cover-ups & denials from the highest levels of the UK govt. That in itself deserves an inquiry.
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Let the meltdown begin!🤭
This is what they feared … Harry and Meghan doing engagements that connect with communities and make a real difference.
They really thought that lame Lord Chamberlain letter would stop the Sussexes supporting causes that matter.
Service is universal.🌎
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Like those who opposed JFK in 1960 because he was Catholic…
Like those who opposed Obama in 2008 because he was Black…
Republicans today are attacking Abdul El-Sayed because he is Muslim.
Don’t let bigotry win. Fight back!
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I picked up some double shifts this quarter so I can take Nov. 3rd off. I plan on ferrying seniors in my community to and from the polling stations. I did this last election cycle and the elders were incredibly appreciative.
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Every second…yes, SECOND, not day…that passes, I become more and more convinced that Trump had one primary task: to weaken the United States of America and make it as vulnerable as humanly possible.
There’s been evidence to support that theory for a long, long time.
In my not so humble opinion, I think we moved past it being a theory…years ago.
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I told a guy that 70% of women that suffer from breast cancer are abandoned by their male "partners". He replied that we women would simply have to pick a guy that fits the 30%. To him, the problem totally is NOT the guys abandoning their wives at one of the most BRUTAL moments
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‘The Tiffany Problem’ is a term coined by the author Jo Walton to describe the tension between historical fact and the popular perception of history. No one would believe that a woman in the Middle Ages could be named Tiffany, yet it was a real medieval name.
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You wanted Trump to be President and undermined Ukraine.
Own it.
It is sickening that the USA is now lifting sanctions on Russian fuel, and transparently ridiculous to blame Ukraine for the spike in prices that obviously began with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Putin is murdering innocent Ukrainian civilians every day. The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter. It won’t work and I doubt it will make much difference to the price of fuel.
If we want Russian oil and gas back on the world market then let’s end this war - with a free, sovereign and independent Ukraine.