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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

[Richou]

New York Times / Archive

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump may soon be able to claim a sweet victory for his deregulation push, with officials preparing to get rid of the decades-old rules for frozen cherry pies.

Emails show the Food and Drug Administration planned to start the process for revoking the standard for frozen cherry pies this week, followed by a similar revocation of the standard for French dressing. Plans to get rid of the obscure rules had been tucked into the Trump administration's deregulation agenda .

Standards for an array of foods including cottage cheese and canned peas were put in place decades ago partly to ensure a level of quality. They spell out how products with specific names can be made, including ingredients that are required or not allowed. The rules for frozen cherry pies say they must be 25% cherries by weight with no more than 15% of the cherries being blemished.

It's not always clear why some food terms have standards and others don't. The rules are seen as arcane by many and are a sore spot in the food industry, with companies saying they prevent innovation or prompt lawsuits. The FDA under Trump has said it plans to update the standards.

Lee Sanders of the American Bakers Association said she's hopeful the cherry pie standard will finally be revoked, but that it would not make a big difference for the industry.
"I feel confident our members are producing cherry pies with more than enough cherries," she said.
The FDA also plans to take another look at milk, which federal regulations define as coming from a cow. The dairy industry has called for a crackdown on soy, rice and almond drinks makers that use the term.

While any changes to the milk rule are likely to be contested, getting rid of the standard for frozen cherry pie is unlikely to be controversial.
The frozen cherry pie standard is an outlier because other fruit pies don't have similar rules. The same is true for French dressing: The Association for Dressings and Sauces, which once went after a vegan spread for violating the mayonnaise standard, notes other dressings are not subject to such standards.
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who stepped down this month, said in an October tweet that it was among the FDA's priorities to "de-regulate frozen cherry pie." He apparently wasn't entirely joking.

In a June email , the FDA noted plans to post a proposal to revoke the frozen cherry pie standard on April 18. It said the proposal to revoke the French dressing standard would be posted May 3.
In a statement this week, the FDA said the dates were for "long range internal planning purposes" and that the timing could shift. Updates to the standards will be publicly noted, the agency said.
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[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Grand Rapids could make it illegal to call police on people of color for ‘participating in their lives’

Community members can weigh-in during a public hearing on the proposed ordinance at the 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 commission meeting at City Hall.

www.mlive.com

Grand Rapids could make it illegal to call police on people of color for ‘participating in their lives’
Posted Apr 20, 8:00 AM

Cory Morse | MLive.com The city commission will host a public hearing on the proposed human rights ordinance on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, at Grand Rapids City Hall. (Cory Morse | MLive file photo)
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids could soon have an ordinance that would make it a criminal misdemeanor to racially profile people of color for “participating in their lives.”

The “bias crime reporting prohibition” is one of a handful of adjustments that would be made to the city code as part of the proposed human rights ordinance. Other components include expanded protected class definitions, identifying four primary potential areas of discrimination, and an outline of the referral and compliance process.
Grand Rapids leaders could vote on the proposal next month, but not before city stakeholders have a chance to weigh in during a public hearing at the 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 commission meeting in the ninth-floor chambers of City Hall, 300 Monroe Ave. NW.

“We in the community have had various conversations over the last few years about disparities that exist in Grand Rapids,” said Jeremy DeRoo, executive director of the non-profit advocacy group LINC Up.

“The human rights ordinance provides the infrastructure so that all these issues have a backbone supporting and addressing them. It creates a way to address a broad range of problems and to correct them.”

In recent years, DeRoo said Grand Rapids police have been unnecessarily dispatched to situations due to 911 calls that were perhaps made due to implicit bias or discrimination. He cited a summer 2017 gathering in Mulick Park in which police were called to break up a large gathering of African American community members. Multiple patrol vehicles were sent to the park before it was determined that it was a graduation party.

“Often times, the Grand Rapids Police Department ends up being caught in the middle of what is a bigger community problem,” DeRoo said. “They look bad because they approach individuals who are people of color, and it appears the police department is biased when really they’re responding to phone calls made by the community and it appears that a number of those are motivated by people in a discriminatory way.”

DeRoo also pointed to an Oct. 9 incident in which police received a call from a woman who claimed she witnessed a shooting at her neighbor’s house. Police investigated the call, and in the process handcuffed a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint, before determining that there were no weapons or shooting victims on scene.
Diversity and Inclusion Manager Patti Caudill said the ordinance is a new concept in Michigan. It isn’t meant to discourage 911 calls, she said. Rather, it’s meant to make people “check their biases” before calling the police.
“Call the police, but if you’re calling because your neighbors are having a barbecue and you’re calling because of some implicit bias because they’re people of color, we don’t want to see that,” she said.

Caudill said the police department has given feedback on the proposed ordinance, but not in the form of “official written feedback.”

In July 2018, the Grand Rapids Community Relations Commission started discussing amendments to the civil rights/human rights ordinance, which was adopted by the city commission in 1953. The ordinance has gone through various changes over the last half-century, including protections for LGBTQ residents.

The proposed ordinance puts a prohibition on any person denying another individual the enjoyment of civil rights, or for any person to discriminate against an individual in the exercise of civil rights because of actual or perceived color, race, religion or creed, sex, gender, identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genotype, age, marital status, medical condition, disability, height, weight, or source of lawful income.

The ordinance is broken into sections, which focus on discrimination in areas like housing practices, employment practices, public accommodation and services, crime reporting,

A violation of the ordinance would be punishable by up to a $500 fine per day that the violation occurs. Cases would be prosecuted by the city attorney’s office.
The proposed changes include:

• Expanding the definition section to provide for clarity and transparency. The proposed ordinance includes 36 definitions, including the various types of protected classes. DeRoo said the lack of definitions has created legal holes in the current ordinance.
• Identifying four primary potential areas of discrimination, which are discriminatory practices in housing, employment, contracting, and bias crime reporting. Each area has its own section in the ordinance.
• Adding a “bias crime reporting prohibition” and making it a criminal misdemeanor to racially profile people of color for participating in their lives. That is, no person shall make a police report that is based in whole or in part on an individual’s membership in a protected class and not on a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity in consideration of all available facts and the totality of the circumstances.
• Outlining and codifying the referral and complaint procedures for the Grand Rapids Diversity & Inclusion Office in collaboration with the city attorney’s office. Complaints must be made within 180 days of the date upon which the complainant knew or should have known of the alleged discriminatory act.
• Specifically outlining the injunctive relief for violations of the ordinance that were implied previously. That is, the city attorney’s office is given the power to “commence a civil action to obtain injunctive relief to prevent discrimination prohibited by the city code, or to reverse the effects of the discrimination, or to enforce a mediation agreement.”

Additionally, the ordinance would expand the Community Relations Commission from nine members to 13. Members are appointed by the mayor to serve a three-year term.

A subcommittee of the CRC was charged with reviewing the ordinance, comparing it to best practices from other municipalities, and proposing changes to the city commission. Members researched similar ordinances in Ann Arbor, East Lansing, Lansing, and Madison, Wisconsin, as well as a template from the Michigan Department of Civil Rights.

During the creation of the ordinance, CRC members sought input from the Fair Housing Center of West Michigan, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and Disability Advocates of Kent County.
The public comment period for the proposed ordinance will be held at the 7 p.m. city commission meeting Tuesday, April 23, on the ninth floor of City Hall. The meeting will be live broadcast on the city’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
Comments can also be submitted to the city by email at crc@grcity.us. For information about being considered for the CRC or any of the city’s boards and commissions, contact Patti Caudill at inclusion@grcity.us.

This is a beautifully absurd piece of racist SJW idiocy.

Diversity and Inclusion Manager! Participating in their lives! I can't stop laughing.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Depicting interracial couples is racist now, apparently.
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But also: A lot of black people are into being treated like slaves by superior whites during sex. Why isn't that allowed to be portrayed? Is Binford Mumbo-Jumbo a kinkshamer?

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The Atlantic

http://archive.li/NNmSY - is garbage

https://outline.com/dvpk47 - No images



I'm assuming this is a joke, ("Chapter 69-420"?) but The Atlantic is claiming it is not.

Talk about shooting themselves in the foot.

 

[Wallace]

How Selective Empathy Can Chip Away At Civil Society

Konrath collected decades of studies and noticed a very obvious pattern. Starting around 2000, the line starts to slide. More students say it's not their problem to help people in trouble, not their job to see the world from someone else's perspective. By 2009, on all the standard measures, Konrath found, young people on average measure 40 percent less empathetic than my own generation — 40 percent!

It's strange to think of empathy – a natural human impulse — as fluctuating in this way, moving up and down like consumer confidence. But that's what happened. Young people just started questioning what my elementary school teachers had taught me.

Their feeling was: Why should they put themselves in the shoes of someone who was not them, much less someone they thought was harmful? In fact, cutting someone off from empathy was the positive value, a way to make a stand.

...

Breithaupt is alarmed at the apparent new virus of selective empathy and how it's deepening divisions. If we embrace it, he says, then "basically you give up on civil society at that point. You give up on democracy. Because if you feed into this division more and you let it happen, it will become so strong that it becomes dangerous."

So we really are becoming a less caring society. I don't think this just appeared out of nowhere though. Take a look at how the last 20 years has changed people, especially the Great Recession. It's easy to be altruistic when you have excess, but when the competition for jobs and status is very cutthroat, you can't afford to do anything for other people without getting dragged down yourself. Likewise, when you are fed a constant message about how unsafe the world outside your hugbox is, or how everyone else is doing better than you, that's not much incentive to want to help other people.

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Controversial Phrase Written on Free Speech Walls

A controversial phrase was discovered on the free speech walls outside of Pray Harold on Thursday. The phrase, “It’s okay to be white,” was written on both sides of each wall. The message was painted over a Nipsey Hussle tribute.

www.easternecho.com

EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY - A controversial phrase was discovered on the free speech walls outside of Pray Harold on Thursday. The phrase, “It’s okay to be white,” was written on both sides of each wall. The message was painted over a Nipsey Hussle tribute.

At 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, a group of students and a lecturer from the art department began painting responses to the controversial phrase. One of the walls now says, “It’s okay to be white...but it’s not okay to be racist.” Another wall now reads, “It’s okay to be white...but at least be human.”

Liz Moak, a student at EMU, said, “It’s kind of prejudice to write ‘it’s okay to be white’ on something that said before, ‘R.I.P.’ to a black rapper, so we decided to take action on that.”

Georgia Nagel, another student at EMU, said that while the university preaches an accepting and open-minded atmosphere, she feels that there is a certain rhetoric on campus that isn’t always discussed.

Christine Ridgway, a lecturer from the art department, discussed the context in which Nipsey Hussle fought for minority rights.

“Did Nipsey Hussle ever say it wasn’t okay to be white? No he didn’t,” she said. “He was trying to create a better relationship between minorities that had been oppressed … [and the police].”

At around 2 p.m., Student Body President-elect Ethan Smith, members of the Student Senate and other concerned students painted over the altered messages.

“It wasn’t designed to express an opinion in good faith, but instead to provoke and race bait. That’s not something that we have an obligation to tolerate as students. Student Government responded with our paint as soon as possible, but it was really encouraging to see other students at the wall as well,” President-elect Ethan Smith said in an official statement.

This is not the first time controversial phrases have been written on the walls. Last December a message condemning antisemitism was tampered with. The original message read, “Together against antisemitism.” The message was painted over to read, “Together against semitism.”

A week after that incident, on Dec. 16, 2018, “It’s okay to be white” was painted on the freedom walls.

The phrase became popular on the online forum 4chan, where it was picked up by organized neo-Nazi groups to advocate for antisemetic practices and white supremacy.

Glorify a violent racist scumbag gang member non-rapping ass rapper? Cool, all day ery day. Be white? Good lord, no, don't be ridiculous.

Letter: It is Not Okay to be White

Racism now is all the things said and unsaid that contribute to the undermining of what people of color have been trying to tell us for years. Racism is alive and well, people feel it, people see it, why can’t we?

statenews.com

Letter: It is Not Okay to be White
On my walk to class the other day, I ran across a plain sign. It was simple black text on a blank sheet of printer paper simply saying, “it’s okay to be white.” This seemingly simple statement is aggressive and it’s false, it’s not okay to be white.

Whiteness is not an ethnicity, nor is it a culture, nor is it a language group, or any other identifier. It was — and continues to be — a social construction of privilege between people. To be white unabashedly is to accept with full force every privilege and construction that goes into the race “white.” It means accepting that because of your color, you are more capable, better educated, better suited for an office environment and more developed. You accept these things because they are all apart of the systematic creation of the race “white.”

Whiteness is a historical construction born out of a mixture of fear and superiority. Poems like "The White Man's Burden", the racist laws of the Jim Crow south, redlining in Northern cities and the prison industrial complex; these are all things that depend on people, like the sign poster, to continue to perpetuate an unthoughtful view of race. It’s more than government policy, it’s the entire social construction of people’s racial identities within the U.S. To say it’s okay to be white is like saying it’s okay to get ice cream at a Dairy Queen. People already know that it’s okay. That’s not the issue. The issue is making “white” people understand it’s okay to be anything else.

People have complex racial and ethnic backgrounds and these cannot be summed up in one category. Groups like Black Lives matter, the Black Panthers, the Chicano/a movement and many others, are an attempt to create solidarity and pride in non-whiteness. This is done in spite of a country that has continually told them they were unequal because of race. Fighting for a say in what your race is defined as is incredibly important to the expansion of equality in the U.S. So, this is my contribution to mine. I don't want to continue to silently accept the privilege of whiteness, and I don't want to create a false narrative of victimhood around it purely because other racial groups are demanding to be treated completely equally. And I won’t sit silently as others do so either.

The problem with racism in the modern U.S. is that it doesn’t look like a sign posted over a water fountain indicating which one is acceptable to use. It looks like that sign posted around campus, it looks like comments on Facebook claiming “all lives matter,” it looks like people like Richard Spencer claiming that white culture is under attack.
Racism now is all the things said and unsaid that contribute to the undermining of what people of color have been trying to tell us for years. Racism is alive and well, people feel it, people see it, why can’t we?

Maggie DeHart is a junior studying political theory and constitutional democracy. Her opinion does not reflect that of The State News.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Controversial Phrase Written on Free Speech Walls

A controversial phrase was discovered on the free speech walls outside of Pray Harold on Thursday. The phrase, “It’s okay to be white,” was written on both sides of each wall. The message was painted over a Nipsey Hussle tribute.

www.easternecho.com

Glorify a violent racist scumbag gang member non-rapping ass rapper? Cool, all day ery day. Be white? Good lord, no, don't be ridiculous.

Letter: It is Not Okay to be White

Racism now is all the things said and unsaid that contribute to the undermining of what people of color have been trying to tell us for years. Racism is alive and well, people feel it, people see it, why can’t we?

statenews.com

Again, I need a "this makes me legitimately and justifiably angry" reaction.
These people are fucking idiots.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Again, I need a "this makes me legitimately and justifiably angry" reaction.
These people are fucking idiots.

So just being white is an act of aggression?

Well shit, I literally cannot stop being white. These people say that means war. Well war it is then, I guess, because if my mere existence is an offense to these people, my options are to fight them or apologize for my existence and accept their punishment.

It's fucking OK to be white. I'm not letting a bunch of racist assholes divide us into nonsense racial camps, so I'm not going to react like they want, by self segregating. Most people, white or nonwhite, just want to be fucking people and to live their lives.

This is a scam. It's not "Black people" or "People of color" pushing this bullshit, it's more white people. They're going so hard at anti-white supremacy they legitimately have gotten to the point that "It's not OK to be white".

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

So just being white is an act of aggression?

Well shit, I literally cannot stop being white. These people say that means war. Well war it is then, I guess, because if my mere existence is an offense to these people, my options are to fight them or apologize for my existence and accept their punishment.

It's fucking OK to be white. I'm not letting a bunch of racist assholes divide us into nonsense racial camps, so I'm not going to react like they want, by self segregating. Most people, white or nonwhite, just want to be fucking people and to live their lives.

This is a scam. It's not "Black people" or "People of color" pushing this bullshit, it's more white people. They're going so hard at anti-white supremacy they legitimately have gotten to the point that "It's not OK to be white".

These idiots have got the same asinine opinions as the ethno-statists, focused the other direction, and both groups would be more than happy to fuck up my family, because none of us qualify as white enough, or non-white enough. They can all fuck directly off into the sun with their dumbfuckery, because I'm also willing to defend myself and my family against their authoritarian bullshit.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

These idiots have got the same asinine opinions as the ethno-statists, focused the other direction, and both groups would be more than happy to fuck up my family, because none of us qualify as white enough, or non-white enough. They can all fuck directly off into the sun with their dumbfuckery, because I'm also willing to defend myself and my family against their authoritarian bullshit.

Hey I'll assist in fucking them into the sun regardless of my own white-enough status. I don't give a shit what color or race anyone is, but if they voluntarily adhere to the church of racial hatred that is this SJWism then they suck.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

https://www.wesh.com/article/easter-bunny-throws-punches-in-orlando-brawl/27225879

So, guy and a girl are chucking mitts, and some dude in a bunny suit runs in and white-knights (white-bunny's) for her.
Bunny starts chucking fists

It's not the least entertaining thing I've seen tonight, anyways.

 

[CWCchange]

Depicting interracial couples is racist now, apparently.

Good, race mixers suck.

Funny how it took a scam service for white people to claim they're some le 56% mutant to get oppression brownie points to piss off a woke black guy.

 

[Matthew216]

Ok, this is a thing now it seems. Wonder what kind of doilies they’ll make?
https://www.loudersound.com/news/world-heavy-metal-knitting-championship-to-launch-in-finland

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Nigerian 'children killed' after car hits Easter parade in Gombe

The driver reportedly ploughed into the procession because it was blocking the road in northern Nigeria.

www.bbc.com

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Nigerian 'children killed' after car hits Easter parade in Gombe

The driver reportedly ploughed into the procession because it was blocking the road in northern Nigeria.

www.bbc.com

Tried to find that one on BBC's pidgin site but no luck so I'll post this.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-42945173

Tiger nut drink fit wake up your sex drive - Nutritionist

Sex drive wahala na one thing wey dey bring plenty palava between man and woman.

People wey sabi say e dey common dis days among young people pass as e no dey like before wen people think say na only old people wey dey suffer am, sake of say dia body don weak. Di mata dey very serious as many people wey get dis problem dey die in silence because say dem dey shame to talk am for outside.

But e get one drink wey dey common wey dey help people wey get dis kain problem.

Di ingredients sef no dey cost plenty money and person fit make am for house. Tiger nut. Hausa dey call am 'Aya', Yoruba dey call am 'Ofio' and Igbo dey call am 'Aki Hausa', and another name for am na Hausa groundnut.

One naturalist, Juliana Osakue wey don study how to use normal plants take cure sickness, say true true, dis tiger nut dey work if dem prepare am well. She say nature don provide beta cure wey fit help people wey get dis kain man and woman wahala without any side effects.

Many people don testify say di juice of dis drink dey ginger dem well well aside di fact say e dey very sweet and e dey good for person health.

Dem say to make dis drink na just to grind di tiger nut after e don soak overnight, with dates and coconut. Den sieve am to separate di juice from di chaff and voila! Di juice don ready.

Some people sef dey add ginger to spice am and dem testify say e dey work wella, but some people say na just ordinary drink.

Juliana tell BBC News Pidgin say di way wey people dey live nowadays and di kain food wey dem dey chop follow dey contribute for dis wahala as many food today, na soso sugar-sugar full am. Weda na beer and all dis fry-fry food like buns, puff-puff, meat-pie dem all na sugar e get and dis sugar no good for person body. So wen di body get too much sugar and no exercise, e go come weak and di man or woman no go fit do di duty wey e suppose do.

She come advise say, "if person reduce sugar, reduce anything wey contain sugar weda na meatpie or juice, even beer. If man fit comot for inside begin dey chop fruits and vegetable, e go help well well".

She say, "na our culture for Nigeria dey cause shame but things don dey change now. E beta make person talk out say na wetin be im problem be dis so dat people wey get di solution go quick help. Many people dey get problem for family because of dis, but if dem talk out, people wey know am go fit help dem."

Everyone should read the pidgin site from time to time.

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Tried to find that one on BBC's pidgin site but no luck so I'll post this.

I did the same. That site doesn't get enough updates. Finally an event falls into their jurisdiction yet nothing. Will BBC's disrespect for Africans never cease?

 

[theshep]

Melbourne cafe Handsome Her closing two years after introducing ‘man tax’
Melbourne cafe owners who introduced an 18 per cent gender pay gap surcharge in 2017 say they became “the punching bag of the internet”.

A vegan cafe in Melbourne’s north, which “became the punching bag of Melbourne” after introducing an 18 per cent “man tax”, is closing down so its owner can pursue some “hands-on” work.

Handsome Her opened in 2017 and made international headlines with a bold approach to making a difference in closing the gender pay gap.
The owners of the Brunswick venture asked men to pay an 18 per cent premium one week a month and advertised ruled on a chalkboard out front that included “women have priority seating” and “respect goes both ways”.
The “tax” paid by male diners went to Elizabeth Morgan House Aboriginal Women’s Services.
Owner Alexandra O’Brien said in August two years ago that the tax wasn’t strictly enforced.

“If people aren’t comfortable paying it or men don’t want to pay it, we’re not going to kick them out the door. It’s just a good opportunity to do some good,” Ms O’Brien said.

Owners revealed the cafe’s imminent closure in a post on Facebook, saying they had expected “to make a stir” but received more than their share of negative feedback, even from their own community.

“We were just one little tiny shop on Sydney Rd that was trying to carve out a swathe of space to prioritise women and women’s issues, and suddenly we became the punching bag of Melbourne and the internet.

“Yes, we are the evil, discriminatory, man-hating dykes who charge men more when didn’t you know the wage gap doesn’t even exist!?”

Owners said they tried not to engage with negativity online, but were happy to discuss the policy respectfully in house.

“When we learnt that it wasn’t only men’s rights activists targeting us, yet people from within our own communities, we encouraged respectful and robust debate,” they wrote.

“We encouraged a range of diverse opinions from all intersections of society and insisted that people critique their inner fear of conflict with inquisitiveness and openness, rather than hostility. We do not believe in the age-old practice of silencing women as a way of stifling debate and avoiding conflict.

“We embrace conflict and leaning into the discomfort and think the world would be a better place if people would stop apportioning blame to others and start taking responsibility for their own contributions. If only we approach difficult discussions with a commitment to seek to understand rather than just being understood.”

The cafe’s last day is April 28. Supporters expressed sadness online after owners announced the closure.

“I’m so sad to hear that you are closing but am so grateful to have been able to visit you,” Carly Whiskin wrote on the cafe’s Facebook page.

“Congratulations on the amazing work you have done for women’s communities,” Astrid Wolger Ryan wrote.

“You will be missed and not forgotten.”

Kristin Dresden said the cafe was run by “beautiful people” in a “beautiful space”.

“Thank you for all you have done and will continue to do,” she wrote. “As a vegan activist who went blindly and it turns out very naively into that role having no idea how much I would offend people by simply trying to make the world a better place I feel your frustration, your determination, and your resilience. Much love and gratitude.”

According to the Federal Government’s own statistics, the gender pay gap for Australia’s full time workers is 14.1 per cent. Women earn on average $239.80 per week less than men.

The gender pay gap is lowest in Victoria (9.3 per cent) and highest in Western Australia (23.1 per cent).

 

[AnOminous]

Melbourne cafe Handsome Her closing two years after introducing ‘man tax’
Melbourne cafe owners who introduced an 18 per cent gender pay gap surcharge in 2017 say they became “the punching bag of the internet”.

Get so woke even other woke people say you're out of line. . .

 

[millais]

Pennsylvania woman killed in meat grinder accident

The woman was standing on a nearby set of stairs before she fell or was pulled in, officials say.

www.bbc.com

Pennsylvania woman falls into meat grinder, dies.

 

[AnOminous]

Pennsylvania woman killed in meat grinder accident

The woman was standing on a nearby set of stairs before she fell or was pulled in, officials say.

www.bbc.com

Pennsylvania woman falls into meat grinder, dies.

Another victim of the daily grind.