especially domestic violence. We use them in mass shootings. The most formidable firearm in 1791, a muzzle-loading single-shot firearm, is incomparable in use and effect to the semi-automatic weapons many Americans seek to regulate today. ...
Gen Z and Gen Alpha are already telling us they’re queerer than the rest of us, withabout a quarter of Gen Zidentifying as LGBTQ+, according to recent polls. They’re also facing a growing wave of anti-queer bigotry nationwide.
They are allowed to live and act according to reality (the nominee lives as a woman, and clearly knows what a woman is): “In 1996, Jackson married surgeon Patrick Graves Jackson, whose family is considered Boston Brahmins. Through her marriage, she is related to former Speaker of the Hou...
Their legal representative, Roddy Dunlop QC (notice that this “women’s” group had to rely upon a male Queen’s Counsel) argued that the distinction between sex and gender is “recognised in law”, as stated on either a birth certificate, or Gender Recognition Certificate (both of which w...
Jury selection is also an exercise in other people’s bigotry. My co-counsel (and fellow author in this issue), Jim Quinn, is from New York City. How would he play to this South Texas jury? Deep into voir dire, a man asked an esoteric question about nuclear waste. I, of course, ...
until the 1920 Firearms Act disarmed them. Today’s mass shootings in America are likewise framed by the war on terror. Apart from trauma and bigotry fueled by that conflict, the very attraction of the assault-style weapons shooters favor lies in their image of combat-style American masculinity...
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Death to Smoochy (2002) More like this >> Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popu...
There are some influences that are known to be subliminal. We all know racism, bigotry and misogyny for example are learned. We usually think of these attitudes as being learned from parents, teachers or other adult influences in our lives. I don’t think that many of these influences are ...
From Wikipedia:Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination.[1] Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social
If there is a “trick” to any of this, it is simply patience and the recognition that neither condition can be effectively treated in isolation, as the treatments for one invariably affect the other, for better or worse. The moment we recognize this, however, we can become better advocates...