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No turf wars, no sexism: Meet the queer Gen Z women giving billiards a rebrand in L.A.

LA Times

In the summer of 2023, Alix Max, new to town with a cigarette in their mouth, was shooting pool on the patio of 4100 Bar in Silver Lake. For her, the intention of “Please Be Nice” is to make pool accessible to young women: “It’s a community cheering for each other and seeing each other get good. It expedites people’s …

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1 week ago

Lorraine O’Grady, groundbreaking conceptual artist, dies at 90

LA Times

Lorraine O’Grady, pictured at a New York event in 2019, believed in taking “calculated risk” with her art. Though O’Grady didn’t turn to art until she was in her 40s, she was motivated by “the desire to produce work in service of her own ideas,” according to her website. “O’Grady has stated that art ‘is the primary discipline where an …

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2 weeks ago

Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros

Wired

The glow of the tech bros’ halo is dimming and, in 2025, the computing industry’s sheen of glamor will continue to fade too. For example, in 2023, tech bros mobbed the Grace Hopper Celebration, the world’s largest conference for women and nonbinary tech workers. As Big Tech continues to deliver empty promises instead of solutions to social ills—while dodging taxes, …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

The gender conundrum

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: In early October, lieutenant general Rajeev Puri of the Indian Army wrote a five-page letter to his senior, general officer commanding-in-chief lieutenant general Ram Chander Tiwari, appraising the work of eight women colonels under his authority. It was not even two years ago that the Indian Army allowed women officers to be promoted to the rank of colonel, and …

Gender Conundrum

3 weeks, 5 days ago

The stories behind Merkel's most iconic images: From staring down a stubborn Trump to her 'Sound of Music' moment with Obama and viral selfie with a Syrian

Daily Mail

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel released her new memoir Freedom yesterday, in which she shares various anecdotes about her political career - from encounters with world leaders to the sexism she faced during her 16 years in power. Merkel holds a beer mug after her speech at the Trudering fest on May 28, 2017 in Munich, Germany Auf wiedersehen: Merkel …

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4 weeks ago

I’m a Celeb viewers divided as Jane Moore accuses Barry McGuigan and Danny Jones of ‘sexism’

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Jones then suggested Moore be on washing up, saying: “I think we have to put …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Unions are meant to protect, not bully us

Daily Mail

Trade unions supposedly exist to improve people’s employment conditions. Details of the PM's membership of the union emerged in the list of ministers' interests published this month GMB head Gary Smith has been accused of harassing and bullying female staff members in the union They also raise further questions about Sir Keir Starmer’s judgment, for he still belongs to the …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

With Musk, Hegseth and more, Trump's team looks like revenge of the bros

LA Times

President Trump is interviewed at the White House in 2017 by Fox host Pete Hegseth, whom he tapped to head the Pentagon for his second term. It’s bad enough that men such as Elon Musk, Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are believed by so many people to be unqualified for the jobs President-elect Donald Trump wants …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Boss of Labour-backing union accused of bullying and harassing women

The Telegraph

The boss of one of Labour’s biggest union backers has been accused of harassing and bullying women. The newspaper also reported that Mr Smith was secretly recorded warning a female employee who brought a sexual harassment complaint against another official: “We’ve got better lawyers than you.” During the conversation, he allegedly admitted that the male official was “a scumbag who …

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1 month ago

Violence against women starts with disrespect — that’s why the persistence of sexism in advertising is so serious

ABC

Campaign Brief, an advertising and marketing trade publication in Australia, recently featured a double-page spread of Australia’s top advertising creatives. Ensuring that Yet, Inclusive and progressive representations of gender in advertising are needed to accelerate progress towards gender equality, as identified in the federal government’s “Working for Women: A Strategy for Gender Equality”. The Advertising Council of Australia’s “Create Space …

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1 month ago

The View's Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin clash over politics ... leading Whoopi Goldberg to intervene

Daily Mail

The View panelists Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin clashed Monday over politics on the ABC series, with Whoopi Goldberg simmering things down as the conversation grew tense. Hostin said she disagreed with Maher's opinion that Democrats were deceptively playing up racism as a factor in Trump's defeat of Harris, saying that it did play a role, in addition to …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Eamonn Holmes takes shocking swipe at GB News co-star's appearance as sexism debate takes personal turn - and she warns 'back off!'

Daily Mail

Eamonn Holmes took a shocking swipe at his GB News co-star Isabel Webster as they discussed Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova recently being criticised over her appearance. However, the conversation took a personal turn when they discussed how journalist L. Jon Wertheim, 54, recently mocked the tennis professional's appearance. Eamonn Holmes took a shocking swipe at his co-star Isabel Webster as …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Internet digs out Jimmy Kimmel's old, lewd video after his teary-eyed reaction to Donald Trump's win

Hindustan Times

Jimmy Kimmel's 19-minute monologue against Donald Trump from Tuesday's episode of his late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! A few days after Jimmy's monologue, an X user dug out an old video of Jimmy, in which he is seeing making crude gestures at a woman. The X user captioned the post, “Whenever I see Jimmy Kimmel complaining about President Trump …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Young men who see women as objects more likely to be violent towards partners: Research

Deccan Chronicle

Melbourne: Intimate partner violence is a global scourge. In our recently published work, we moved from considering violence towards women in general to violence towards men's intimate partners. What this means in the real world Our three studies indicate objectification plays a role in men's intimate partner violence against women. Inducing an appearance mindset may also promote intimate partner violence, …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

More than racism or sexism it was corporatism: What Democrats must learn from Kamala Harris' defeat

Salon

David Brooks’ arrestingly headlined New York Times column — “Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now?” — contains a sentence that stopped me cold, possibly for a reason that both Brooks and I had forgotten. I insisted then that if liberals keep fixating on racism and ethno-racial identity politics, “we’ll keep on losing and losing and losing.” Brooks and …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Harris ally says there's a 'feeling of betrayal’ toward white woman after exit polls

Raw Story

A Democratic ally of both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday that there is a “feeling of betrayal” toward white women – the majority of whom voted for President-elect Donald Trump – who she bluntly stated, “is a sexist” and “white nationalist.” “Racism and sexism seem to be the reason,” said Melanie L. Campbell, who chairs …

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Backers of incumbent accuse US voters of racism, sexism for electing felon

Al Jazeera

Anger and fear have greeted the return to power of former US strongman, Donald Trump, a corrupt far-white extremist coup plotter who is also a convicted felon and rapist, following a shock presidential election result. “It’s misogyny from Hispanic men, it’s misogyny from Black … who do not want a woman leading them,” insisted one TV anchor, adding that there …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Kangana Ranaut congratulates Donald Trump for U.S. Election win, shares his meme dressed in Indian clothes

Firstpost

She shared an image of Trump dressed in Indian clothes and wrote- “Best Meme on the Internet today.” Kangana Ranaut had something to share on social media to congratulate Donald Trump for the U.S. Election win. She shared an image of Trump dressed in Indian clothes and wrote- “Best Meme on the Internet today.” However, Hollywood celebrities like Jamie Lee …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

White women handed Trump his win. Racism and sexism defeated Harris

LA Times

So … what happened? The answer isn’t that deep: The majority of white women in this country want a male president — preferably white. Opinion Calmes: Coming soon to Washington — America’s dark ages Once upon a time, it was possible to believe Donald Trump would set aside rancor and lies and be a president for us all. Roy Wilkins, …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Sexism, campaign errors, media malpractice: Why Kamala Harris lost, according to readers

LA Times

To the editor: I have faced the reality that Donald Trump will be president for the next four years. With the economy rebounding well after COVID-19, I would like to offer another reason why Vice President Kamala Harris lost. More than two weeks before the election, I wrote Harris’ campaign to say that she couldn’t win the election based on …

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Editorial: Americans voted for Trump. Here’s what they chose — and the hope for all those who didn’t

LA Times

Much will be studied, analyzed and written for years to come about why Americans voted an openly authoritarian leader back into power in apparently greater margins than they did eight years ago. Over the next four years, the world’s most powerful office will be inhabited by a twice-impeached convicted felon with a history of flouting laws and norms — a …

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Cardi B Slams Elon Musk: 'You Don't Know About the American Struggle'

Hindustan Times

Cardi B and Elon Musk have had a public spat on Twitter, with Musk seemingly taking a dig at the singer's recent appearance at a Milwaukee rally for Donald Trump. Cardi B responded by calling Musk a 'puppet' and referencing her own struggles with a teleprompter malfunction during her speech. This incident has sparked a conversation about the American struggle …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Welsh Rugby’s grovelling apology in sexism scandal: ‘We should have done better’

The Telegraph

The Wales Rugby Union has issued a grovelling apology after a Telegraph Sport investigation uncovered widespread sexism in the way it handled contract negotiations with its women’s team. Players were left “emotionally unwell” during a convoluted and unprofessional negotiating process which lasted several months and escalated when the WRU threatened to pull the women’s team from next year’s World Cup. …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Welsh Rugby in fresh sexism scandal after threatening World Cup withdrawal in contract stand-off

The Telegraph

The WRU, which posted a turnover of £100 million for the year ending June 2023, announced new deals for 37 players in September worth £24,000 to £30,000 which made the players “one of the best-paid international women’s teams in the world game” despite not meeting almost all of their proposals. In a statement, Tierney said: “In September this year the …

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No turf wars, no sexism: Meet the queer Gen Z women giving billiards a rebrand in L.A.

Lorraine O’Grady, groundbreaking conceptual artist, dies at 90

Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros

The gender conundrum

The stories behind Merkel's most iconic images: From staring down a stubborn Trump to her 'Sound of Music' moment with Obama and viral selfie with a Syrian

I’m a Celeb viewers divided as Jane Moore accuses Barry McGuigan and Danny Jones of ‘sexism’

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Unions are meant to protect, not bully us

With Musk, Hegseth and more, Trump's team looks like revenge of the bros

Boss of Labour-backing union accused of bullying and harassing women

Violence against women starts with disrespect — that’s why the persistence of sexism in advertising is so serious

The View's Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin clash over politics ... leading Whoopi Goldberg to intervene

Eamonn Holmes takes shocking swipe at GB News co-star's appearance as sexism debate takes personal turn - and she warns 'back off!'

Internet digs out Jimmy Kimmel's old, lewd video after his teary-eyed reaction to Donald Trump's win

Young men who see women as objects more likely to be violent towards partners: Research

More than racism or sexism it was corporatism: What Democrats must learn from Kamala Harris' defeat

Harris ally says there's a 'feeling of betrayal’ toward white woman after exit polls

Backers of incumbent accuse US voters of racism, sexism for electing felon

Kangana Ranaut congratulates Donald Trump for U.S. Election win, shares his meme dressed in Indian clothes

White women handed Trump his win. Racism and sexism defeated Harris

Sexism, campaign errors, media malpractice: Why Kamala Harris lost, according to readers

Editorial: Americans voted for Trump. Here’s what they chose — and the hope for all those who didn’t

Cardi B Slams Elon Musk: 'You Don't Know About the American Struggle'

Welsh Rugby’s grovelling apology in sexism scandal: ‘We should have done better’

Welsh Rugby in fresh sexism scandal after threatening World Cup withdrawal in contract stand-off