Emma Watson - UN Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Equality
Sep 24th 2014, 8:13 pm
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Sep 24th 2014, 9:36 pm
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Re: Emma Watson - UN Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Equality
Discrimination definitely exists. If you are female and work in a hospital people first ask if you are a nurse. If male they ask if you are a doctor. More than once I've been the person in charge working with a junior male trainee and patients direct their questions to him.
No, Carol Vorderman is not thinking man's crumpet! She's an OAP probably and should keep her bloody knockers to herself...why does she keep displaying them? Emma Watson is a good role model for young women, she's pretty and can express herself (and no Oink her tits aren't too small....she's 'fit' not fat and has the brain cells to think she doesn't have to have them plastically enhanced to succeed).
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Sep 25th 2014, 1:42 am
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Re: Emma Watson - UN Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Equality
And she's famous because ..... ?
(Clue: She does not resemble the rear end of a hippo.)
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Sep 25th 2014, 2:55 am
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Re: Emma Watson - UN Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Equality
Either you don't know the sort of women that Hooters hires to be waitresses, or you're talking about a different Emma Watson from the famous actress. She might be pretty, and I think she is, but she is not, er, .... equipped, to be a Hooters waitress.
Hooters is a family restaurant.
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Sep 25th 2014, 3:28 am
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Re: Emma Watson - UN Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Equality
Of course it is.
I read an article recently on CNNMoney about the growth and success of Hooters and several similar restaurants (Twin Peaks, The Tilted Kilt, and two or three others). They were grouped under a sub-segment of restaurants called "breastaurants".
I read an article recently on CNNMoney about the growth and success of Hooters and several similar restaurants (Twin Peaks, The Tilted Kilt, and two or three others). They were grouped under a sub-segment of restaurants called "breastaurants".
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Sep 25th 2014, 3:44 am
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Re: Emma Watson - UN Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Equality
Sep 25th 2014, 3:46 am
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Re: Emma Watson - UN Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Equality
No, I haven't listened to her speech, and have no intention of doing so. She's an actress, so I'm sure she delivered it splendidly. Did she write it?
What was the gist of it? I look around me in my comfortable life in the West and I don't see how women do not have equal opportunity to men.
What was the gist of it? I look around me in my comfortable life in the West and I don't see how women do not have equal opportunity to men.
In other countries, there is systematic inequality, but I agree that our Western friendly females have it better, but I would not deny there is inequality. Justified or not is a hot topic but there is also outright discrimination, which is wrong, IMO.
Sep 25th 2014, 3:48 am
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Re: Emma Watson - UN Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Equality
Oh. Look more closely.
- stereotyping in education is the first handicap. If a girl is told from an early age that "girls don't do that" then she's less likely to be inclined to do it. If "that" is blowing up frogs there may not be much lost but "that" may be rocket science. It is not the case that society encourages students to achieve whatever they can regardless of gender. One hears no end of claptrap about people of specific genders being good at this or not good at that.
- woman are disadvantaged in the workplace due to the impact on their ability to work should they have children. Obviously a woman who elects to have a child is less useful to an employer than a man but not less useful than a woman who will not have children. All women suffer employment discrimination because some will bear children; the proof of this being that, in comfortable western societies, women are typically paid less than men for doing the same job.
I have heard of other inequalities but they're less obvious and/or less easily demonstrated; I'm not convinced of the notion that something is necessarily discrimination because the victim considers it to be discrimination.
- stereotyping in education is the first handicap. If a girl is told from an early age that "girls don't do that" then she's less likely to be inclined to do it. If "that" is blowing up frogs there may not be much lost but "that" may be rocket science. It is not the case that society encourages students to achieve whatever they can regardless of gender. One hears no end of claptrap about people of specific genders being good at this or not good at that.
- woman are disadvantaged in the workplace due to the impact on their ability to work should they have children. Obviously a woman who elects to have a child is less useful to an employer than a man but not less useful than a woman who will not have children. All women suffer employment discrimination because some will bear children; the proof of this being that, in comfortable western societies, women are typically paid less than men for doing the same job.
I have heard of other inequalities but they're less obvious and/or less easily demonstrated; I'm not convinced of the notion that something is necessarily discrimination because the victim considers it to be discrimination.