Simple test tells you if you’re racist http://m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11702669 Even when the applicant is not there in person, discrimination can happen. A 2011 study into discrimination quotes a woman from Sydney who was called Ragda Ali. “After completing TAFE in 2005 I applied for many junior positions where no experience inContinue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/83557525/nz-bus-apologises-after-driver-harasses-teenage-girl-visiting-from-france NZ Bus has apologised after one of its drivers made inappropriate sexual comments to a teenage girl visiting from France. The 16-year-old had come to New Zealand to escape the horrors of witnessing the Bataclan terror attack in Paris only to be harassed by the driver, her friend AndrewContinue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/83263932/sex-miseducation-from-ettie-rout-to-the-bachelor-the-events-that-shape-our-attitudes-towards-sex Safe-sex advocate Ettie Rout was well ahead of her time when she campaigned for preventive measures for venereal diseases. New Zealand women rewarded her efforts by writing to national newspapers expressing their bitter abhorrence at her effrontery in slackening the moral fibre of their good men overseas. A centuryContinue Reading
Obama Pays Mexico Five Billion Dollars to Keep Donald Trump https://t.co/OM8IrPDfWc via @BorowitzReport — Bryan Spondre (@BryanSpondre) August 31, 2016Continue Reading
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11701534 5 When you agreed to stand up, did you expect to have to tell your whole sexual abuse story? No. I did think, “What have I done?” when the media seemed to seize on my story in particular but then you just had to ride it. We were gettingContinue Reading
Amy Schumer Opens Up About Sexual Assault: ‘I’m Trying to Speak Out’ Amy Schumer stopped by “The Howard Stern Show” not only to promote her new book, but to also let the public know that sexual assault comes in all forms. In the midst of her press tour for herContinue Reading
http://mashable.com/2014/04/07/socially-progressive-countries/#aJN3U9bREiqB The Social Progress Imperative, a U.S.-based non-profit that focuses on advancing global progress, released a new index last week that ranked 132 countries based on a variety of indicators, including basic human needs, foundations of well-being and opportunity. According to the Social Progress Index (SPI) 2014, the most sociallyContinue Reading
http://www.signalng.com/women-groups-condemn-chemical-castration-sex-offenders-turkey-2/ Women’s rights groups, lawyers and doctors have condemned Turkey’s decision to introduce a mandatory chemical castration programme for convicted sex offenders, arguing the treatment does not address the underlying reasons for widespread violence against women, and that bodily punishment will instead lead to increased abuse. Özgül Kaptan, director ofContinue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/83587376/psychotherapist-and-social-worker-hope-to-reframe-trauma But despite its prevalence in the medical world, Finlayson and Gauntlett say it produces a complex pattern of symptoms that the average person does not understand. This could include anxiety, depression, panic attacks, phobias, addictions, social isolation and chronic pain. Finlayson, who has trained extensively in integrative trauma therapyContinue Reading
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25110628 But behind the corkscrew hair, the bulging organ-stop eyes and the twitchy mannerisms, lay a much gentler, more reflective individual. He was born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 11, 1933. He later described his childhood as “sane but disturbed” and was always drawn to acting by theContinue Reading
