“Flying Lessons,” by Soman Chainani, which is about a painfully shy boy taken on vacation by an unconventional grandmother and thrust into real life. But saying that takes nothing away from “Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty
What is an example of prejudice in school? Research shows that the types of prejudice are numerous and includeracism, sexism, lookism, LGBT-based, disability-based, religious-based, and weight-based prejudices. The study also found students are negatively affected in many areas such as mental ...
I Wish You Would. True to form, Trevor hilariously shares revelations about learning to speak German, modern communication, and his love for curry. Filmed at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, CA, Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would premieres globally on Netflix on November 22, 2022....
Okay, sophysiognomy is a form of bigotry and lookismpopularly practised in the 1800s, and was used to prop up and promote racism. Basically, physiognomy is the act of using physical features to determine a person’s character or personality. It goes back to Plato and Ancient China, but wa...
Reading parts of this thread again including the following exchange between Mr. Ferrare and me, I was reminded of Matt’s and my discussion of nominalism in a more recent thread, “Anti-Lookism is not extreme”. I wrote: His [Mr. Ferrare’s] complaint, which he has repeated several ...
Kids quickly realized that "lookism," that seldom-talked-about but insidious social divider, doesn't exist at all on the web, and were thrilled to take advantage of this, with the ones who might be the least communicative in person reaping some of the biggest benefits. [Of course with ...
studentsfounditoffensive.Whenpeoplestartedtalkingaboutitasasymptomofadeeper societalproblem,wethoughtthetimingwasrightforustosponsorthisinitiative. Thedeepersocietalproblemislookism.Fordecadespeople’vebeenwillingtotalkabout racismandsexism,butthey’restillreluctanttotalkaboutlookism.Yetthisprejudice againstunattractive...
Joey scrolled throughLookism.net, a message board about “looksmaxing,” full of aspirational photos of handsome men, often models and soccer stars. Some members post photos of their faces, and others photoshop them to be more beautiful. One morphing GIF gave Elliot Rodger a bigger chin. On...