I wonder what would happen if we commemorated the deaths our own nations have been responsible for with as much sadness and regret.
The Dresden bombings, the Ruhr Valley dams (I remember my mother commenting that the people drowned like rats when my dad was thouraghly enjoying the glorified depiction of events in the film 'The Dam Busters'), Hiroshima, Nagasaki and goodness know what atrocities our countries have committed since.
Maybe that would involve a bit more humility and generosity of spirit than we're capable of.
I'm guessing gender pay parity, or the lack thereof, can be measured in a myriad of ways.
Each claim should state it's parameters and not knowing the commercials you cite, it's not possible to answer your question directly.
There is the standard 'equal pay for equal work', but that's often clouded by giving the same jobs different titles and maybe slightly different job descriptions/contracts to different people.
There's the average pay of men and women within populations.
The issue in both cases is not always underhand bias, but often to do with having children. Women are more likely to take a career break and so have more difficulty in career development, or they simply take on poorly paid, part-time work which fits in with their childcare commitments.
If there was more readily available, affordable chilcare, or goddess forbid, a livable minimum wage, the gender pay gap would likely diminish somewhat.
The trouble is, I strongly suspect tax revenue from business profits with a low minimum wage outweighs any tax revenue a government would get from individuals on a livable wage.
Likewise, a large business will pay out less in tax on profits, than if they had to increase wages.
Ummm...yeah, bonanata...each of us can choose what to do with the information we have...
...but I don't think prejudice about scientific studies, or choosing ignorance is quite what it takes to evolve...ignorance and, umm, prejudice.
As for so called truth and lies, perspective is another key issue when exploring negative discrimination. Denying other's perspective actively propagates the status quo of discrimination like nothing else.
You're comment about us reading what we want to is fairly accurate, bonata.
It appears that in your passion to see negative didcrimination overcome you have done just that.
I applaud your passion, but unless we understand all the various mechanisms of our prejudice, it will be very slow going (and likely faulty) indeed.
Ocee was making a point about one of the mechanisms of prejudice...and if I know Ocee (I do, we've been friends for years) it was with a view to resolving our prejudices and their impact.
The opinions that worry me are the ones where people deny having prejudices at all. Having the self-awareness to recognise our prejudices, the balls to admit to them and the humility to learn is fairly key when it comes to breaking down barriers and sharing the love.
Prejudice is endemic in nearly all societies and groups of any kind.
It's in the very fabric of our languages, cultures and traditions.
Maybe it would be more functional to ask how we learn to unravel our prejudices.
For me, being of mixed origins was fairly key, but it was my dad who sowed the seeds. I remember visiting his office when I was about 7 years old and him being horribly embarrassed that I thought the young women typists were his secreataries. I was informed that they worked there just the same as he did and the only reason he had an office on his own was because the sound of their fingernails clicking on the typewriter keys drove him potty and besides, they liked to talk to each other while they worked.
I imagine he was horribly embarassed they were paid less, too.
Way to go, dad.
Actually, I learned a lot from my mum, too. She survived war-time Germany and then suffered yet more prejudices emigrating to England post-war, as did I going to school in the same era. As far as I can work out, some of the teachers viewed me as a Jewish imposter in a Catholic school, whilst the kids seemed to think I was the most diminutive member of the SS.
It's not like I can't recognise negative discrimination when I see it, whether it's directed at myself, at others, or my own culturally learned prejudices.
I was once in a small park with my dogs whed a young lad excitedly alerted me to some skeletal remains he had found.
I alerted him to the discarded KFC box in close proximity and suggested the remains were likely someone's supper.
It was a privilege to witnrss him handling the mixed emotions of disappontment and amusement with admiral maturity and good spirit.
My point is, hypotheses are there to ne supported, or disproved. I hypothesise that remains may well have neem found by those not looking for them, but not recognised due to lack of knowledge.
I haven't really got a grip on your hypothesis as to why some people might wish to create a dino conspiracy.
I'm adapting rather well to losing my hearing, but I'm not muxh fond of noise. I've even got to quite like my tinnitus because I only notice it when I've finally managed to get a bit of peace and quiet.
Losing my sight, however, would be a greater struggle. I already feel so frustrated by getting old enough to need glasses, I'm thinking of getting surgery to extend my arm instead.
If I lost my sight I think I'd have to find an adventure in it, somehow. Do something, or create something I've not really done before. Maybesomething like making clay sculptures of some kind. Like faced that can look out on the world for me.
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Don't tell me you missed the play on words, Lookin'...?Having a stroke...being felt up...geddit?