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32% Of British Women Don't Feel Safe Walking Alone At Night Survey Says
I am a man and don’t feel safe in Britain at night. Because it is not safe for most at night in this country. Society has been eroded in this country since Thatcher to such a degree that many have identifiable psychological problems...we have been divided by gender, race, age, sexuality, economic status etc. In order to be ruled more effectively and it has dehumanised a generation and people don’t see each other as just human (albeit with lovely differences). We have no police force to speak of, education system defunded, no one has connections to each other. No one knows what is expected of them in society anymore and illegitimate career structures look more enticing due to nepotism and cronyism. The people in charge get away with breaking the law so everyone else thinks it is open season. Everyone has been turned against each other to distract from bad business (not all business) and the ones at the top taking everything. Toxic masculinity is rife, and it is the status quo...
You sure you're in the UK and not the US? Sounds very familiar to me (in the US). *sigh*
Load More Replies...Enoch Powell was a racist; his opposition to anti-discrimination legislation was shameful. And if you think the only danger to women comes from minority populations, you’re wearing blinders.
Load More Replies...Cant think of a single woman in America who feels safe walking alone at night. Or maybe at all. I just bought an umbrella with a sword in it so....yeah.
How Search Engines Reinforce Our Beliefs
What Would Happen To Earth If Humans Went Extinct?
I hope this happens but I don't wanna be alive when it does- -please don't downvote me-
Tbh, I wish humans would go extinct. Think of how wonderful the world would be without our pollution.
Good things I'm sure, I've already seen so many videos during this outbreak showing clearer skies & waterways when people weren't ruining them by swimming, boating & dumping stuff in them.
Cleaning The Slate: Difficulties Of Life After Prison
Pretty much. Sadly many people feel like others should be punished forever due to even simple crimes, like theft.
Or carrying a tiny bit of weed if you are black. Seriously, I am not American but the injustice of their racist prison system keeps me up at night!
Load More Replies...Read a thing about some poor dude serving life for a raggedy dime bag he sold in the 70s. True story. And yet I know a doctor namwd Aaron Cottle who molested at least 3 girls in the 80s and 90s and that f****r is still free. Never served a day. The girls?? One dead and the other 2 life long drug addicts.
I don't think he does. The white part is where he puts his name, The red is the background.
Load More Replies...Record Levels Of Plastic Found In Arctic Sea Ice
I find this so heartbreaking. Look at what we have done to this beautiful creation called earth. I despair that it's too late.
Is this caused by people not recycling? I've also heard if plastics aren't perfectly clean at recyling depots they just dump it instead of recycling?
The United States actually recycles very little since China stopped taking it's trash. Our counties have all these fake recycling procedures to make us feel good about ourselves and then most of it is taken to the dump.
Load More Replies...Opinion: In 2008 We Bailed Out Companies, But Not People. Are We About To Do It Again?
I'm still not over my outrage over 2008... I may never get past it. If anyone in the uS didn't see the benefits of a socialist-democratic society (a la many in the EU, for example).... after 2008?.... then they never will.
You keep voting in people who only serve themselves. This is what you voted for . . .
YES! We're paying Trump MILLIONS for rent on rooms & portable toilets for Secret Service to watch him... when "Don duh Con" should be paying for their Service!
-Companies: if we go bankrupt, the country's unemployment will skyrocket and you will be blame -Gov: please, take those billions -People: we need money, we are hungry! -Gov: well, what are you waiting for? Get back to work!
In 2008-09, the banks were bailed out in the incorrect theory that they would lend money to allow business to carry on and prevent the economic collapse of 2009-2014. This proved absurdly unsuccessful, although much of the money was eventually repaid. Eventually, the government spent $4 trillion in asset purchases ("quantitative easing") that made stockholding wildly profitable. This spending resulted in the government holding "assets" so it wasn't "on-budget" even though it amounted to transferring cash from the future to the present in a way that was actually WORSE than debt. This spending was undone by about a trillion from 2017-2019, but was resumed in 2020.
Parenting In The Screen Age
As dangerous as leaving a child near a pool without supervision, love it but it also frightens me
I see this a lot and have to disagree with it. It's grossly exaggerated how parents just throw their kids into the internet. Yes, kids have tablets and smartphones. But for the most part, these too are helpful tools they will need to learn to operate in our increasingly digital world. I grew up with an ancient computer program and learned multiplication and other academic feats waaaay faster than my classmates because it was in the form of computer games, and I'd often feel incentive to play even after my homework was done. There are a lot of dangers (as with any parenting tool/method), but the whole "screen=bad" is overplayed.
I would love to tell you all the horrors my family has gone through because the internet. Frankly I don't think it's talked about enough. Just because things were fine when you were a kid doesn't mean that they are now. Also just because you don't know any kids struggling because of the internet doesn't mean there aren't tons who are living nightmare scenarios.
Load More Replies...Biden Addresses Global Vaccine Shortage
That's just ridiculous- Biden is the President of the UNITED STATES... NOT the WORLD! Plain & Simple - If America would stop helping everyone else with their Wars & Atrocities- we wouldn't be drowning in debt.
America almost always directly or indirectly causes wars and atrocities so keep the self righteous, outrage to yourself.
Load More Replies...So the protein can read test-scores. Okay.
Load More Replies...Framing Britney Spears Exposes The Contradictions Of American Womanhood
Can someone please explain this one? The only thing I know is that her father basically has juristic ownership of her (or something like that) and she's not allowed to do almost anything without his approval
The piece is commenting on the unfair societal pressures Britney faced as a teen and young adult. I’m not sure what the current situation is with her survivorship, but the media really tore her apart in the early 2000s making it impossible for her to make anyone happy. She’s too fat, now she’s too thin, she’s a bad mom, now she’s smothering her child, etc.
Load More Replies...This is about when she wasn't sick as well. It's what all women face. You're a whore if you show your shoulders you're a prude if you don't. You're too fat. You're too skinny. You don't have sex you're a tease you do have sex you're a s**t. You're a bad mom if you don't breastfeed you're also a bad mom if you don't bottle feed. Britney faced this on a larger scale she couldn't do anything right and it made her have a breakdown which a lot of regular women do too from this push and pull.
Load More Replies...How A Neighborhood Coped After A Grisly Homicide
Aunt Jemima Announces New Name, Removes "Racial Stereotypes" From Product
All the while erasing America's first spokesperson who is black and made a fortune off Aunt Jemima. Way to go woke crowd
You do know that the pictures on these bottles (and boxes of rice, etc._) were, until fairly recently, darned near caricatures, and showed African-Americans in clothing of servitude, right?
Load More Replies...I think it's called the Pearl Milling Company which is kind of boring.
Load More Replies...Her family was not happy with the move. https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/family-of-woman-who-portrayed-aunt-jemima-opposes-move-to-rebrand/
But according to her autobiography Gertrude was very prideful of being Aunt Jemima
Load More Replies...They should put their energy in more industrious endeavors. It's getting out of hand. Next thing the woke crowd will be saying "he punched me and I got a white eye."
It’s a direct quote from the company on the reason they took her off the bottle :)
Load More Replies...How Right-Wing Radio Stoked Anger Before The Capitol Siege
BLM is about deaths and unfair treatment of minorities by law enforcement spanning decades/centuries. Jan 6 was about people throwing a temper tantrum because their candidate lost in an election where their side did all they could to suppress minority votes.
People gotta' hate; President, dog next door, mailman, in-laws, God. People who are HATE gotta' hate. NEWS FLASH: Satan doesn't win. With each truth GOD wins. Satan doesn't win.
The difference is that BLM was not created with the intent of violence. A handful of people with no authority within the BLM movement used it as an excuse to riot and took advantage of mob mentality to get that to spread. It's quite different when the leader of a movement is actively promoting rioting and mob mentality...
Load More Replies...then an investigation into this would be a very good idea? get all the details out in the open? why worry, huh?
One police officer died directly as a result of the insurrectionists. Because there was a large violent mob attacking the police, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly who is responsible. But that does not absolve the mob, it simply means it would be hard to make criminal charges stick against any one individual for the crimes committed that day. Another officer committed suicide within the week. Far more officers had serious injuries resulting from the insurrectionists. Including but not limited to: heart attacks, loss of an eye, loss of fingers, spinal injuries, chemical burns, and stab wounds. That doesn't even take into account the PTSD that many of the officers are dealing with. Everyone saw what happened on January 6th, so please stop with this "fake news" nonsense. The people who stormed that building were absolutely trespassing. There was an attempted insurrection and thank God it was unsuccessful. It's horrifying how quickly some are trying to diminish what happened that day.
Load More Replies...And people who are left extremist will never agree because they are blind.Riots happened on both sides...I don't get how someone can find ways to justify victims
Load More Replies...Fixing America's Prison Problem
And getting rid of private and for-profit prisons. And legalizing marihuana. And getting rid of the death sentence. And investing more in social programs, education and prevention. And... I could go on and on here
Load More Replies...Prisons shouldn't be owned and operated by corporations! Recidivism means more money for them, and gruel for food, no rehabilitation programs, and regular violence helps create recidivism. It's disgusting.
The prison problem can be solved by creating secure mental heath treatment facilities for the criminally insane, and leaving prisons for the sane criminals. Then there would be enough room in them to return to actually enforcing the law as we should. It is only enforcement of the law which deters crime.
Where Are The Female Drivers In Formula One?
Official drivers: Leilla Lomardi, Williams, Giovanna Amanti, Brabham. Test drivers: Sussie Wolff, Williams. Tatiana Calderón, Alfa Romero. BTW, this can be like the tweet of Burger King in march 8: Woman belong to the kitchen. Mentioning there are more male chefs than woman. maybe woman don't want to be F1 drivers.
I feel like women might not get as much support, training, and other things that might help them become the drivers. But idk.
Load More Replies...You've got the Force sisters in NASCAR, but I can't think of any women in Formula One.
Wasn't she in NASCAR? Did she drive F1, too?
Load More Replies...Spying Eyes: The Future Of Surveillance
This is low-key one of my worst nightmares. The fbi watching my every move
It's unlikely you're that important. They can't keep tabs on hundreds of thousands of random people 'just in case' or because they've nothing better to do.
Load More Replies...Surveillance is often paid for and agreed to by those being watched...
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Finding Peace On Nun Twitter
The holy trinity of the USA: Gun, Thoughts and Prayer
Load More Replies...Transgender Issues: Who Should Compete In Women's Sports?
I really hate this topic cause I don't know were I stand. A biological man is stronger/faster naturally than a biological woman, giving a trans woman an unfair advantage. This shouldn't prevent them from doing sports, but do we put them with men or women? And making a trans sports would be ridiculous. There is too much to consider, and its too much to give an answer that would be beneficial.
This summer we will (probably) have the Tokyo Summer Olympics. Laurel Hubbard will be competing for New Zealand in weight lifting. She used to compete in weightlifting as Gavin Hubbard. Hubbard set men's junior records in New Zealand in categories: snatch 135 kg, clean & jerk 170 kg, total 300 kg. I can only imagine how the other competitors, women who trained all their lives to get the maximum out of their bodies, feel to go up against someone who grew so much bigger and stronger because of their biology. LH-60b7e82574dcc.jpg
My problem is some trans women think it's okay to compete against women. Knowing fully they have an advantage and will win. They argue it's unfair for them to not be able to compete with other biological women. When in all reality it is unfair to the biological women. I just don't understand how they don't see that. They know they just don't care and that is just wrong. I'm not trying to upset anyone. Just stating facts and hope trans people realize we aren't shutting them out. We just don't want it to be unfair. Yet I think they like to make it out like we are being prejudice. But that's just not true at all. It's specifically about fairness.
Load More Replies...If allowed to compete, eventually it will be all trans and no biological females. Am i wrong
Obviously transgender female is female. There’s no question about that. The big issue is in the winnings and titles etc. A person who came into this world as a male, at birth, will have a distinct strength and cardio advantage over a person born female (hence the reason for gender divided sports). The fastest female born woman will never beat the fastest male born male. Transgender does not hinder the male born gifts. So if your transgender female child who is now female runs track and is not top 10 for her school then no harm no foul. If a male born female is one of the fastest Runners out there, then now it’s a definite issue for fairness. This person if competing in male sports would have a run for their money. But if they run under female they sweep all the prizes without a challenge. The prizes for winning races are a lot of money. That’s where fairness is at question.
So the culture demands that people can choose their gender, and everyone is a awful jerk if they disagree with that. Except for sports. In sports we have to recognize that men can't really be women and women can't really be men. So make up your minds you weirdos. I'm going with basic science.
I know I'm late to this but I'm pretty sure trans people have to have a certain amount of the hormone they're taking to compete against/with people that are their gender. E.g a trans woman has to have a certain amount of estrogen to compete against/with other women
isn't that what taking hormones helps with?? I'm a little bit confused on this topic, could someone enlighten me?
I'm kinda confused at this topic. Because they say. Men and women have a big differences but they want to have an equal rights in sports because they can do what the man can do too??
Are you really that confused? Or are you just not interested in thinking about what "equal rights" really means? Honestly - I'd prefer if they would simply compete against each other, no gender-separation. Make mixed-teams for team-sports, let women battle against men in tennis, hockey, golf.... See where it gets everyone.
Load More Replies...Another "what's wrong with today's society" post but this time bp changed the title
This is the same material that is always posted on BP. The only one that is different is the arrow one. That's clever. But all of these are a regurgitation of previous posts.
So simple but effective, I would love to see you do some work about your hope regarding the futur :)
Another "what's wrong with today's society" post but this time bp changed the title
This is the same material that is always posted on BP. The only one that is different is the arrow one. That's clever. But all of these are a regurgitation of previous posts.
So simple but effective, I would love to see you do some work about your hope regarding the futur :)
