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Tony Robbins can go fuck himself.
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He won’t even look her in the eye when he talks to her. He looks everywhere but at her.
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… I don’t know what’s going on, and I haven’t seen the video, but deciding someone is dishonest because they avoid eye contact is like deciding someone is dishonest because they have another religion, or they write with their left hand, or based on physiognomy or phrenology or a gap between their 1st and 2nd toes.
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As far as I can research, Tony Robbins does not have Autism or any sort of condition that would induce him to avoid eye contact. From what I’ve seen in the media over a couple of decades is that he is quite skilled at eye contact, and uses it well. He’s a skilled salesman, after all.
I’m not saying he’s an asshole on purpose, I’'m only saying this appears to me that he’s been caught making assumptions and confronted in the middle of a seminar, which I think does not happen very often, if at all. To me, he appears to be on the defensive with his offense.
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The ERA passed in the Illinois House TODAY; now it has to go to the State Senate. If it passes, that means we’re at 37 out of the required minimum of 38 states.
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I’m so excited about this. My sister in law did her thesis on the ERA and I guess it’s not just as easy as 2 other states ratifying. At this point congress also needs to pass a concession that they will allow these votes to hold as they are after the deadline for ratification.
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Yup, exactly. The other half of our bicameral legislature (apparently it was the Senate that passed it first, not the House) has to pass it, and then we join Nevada as two of the necessary three states which have ratified after the deadline. When (not if!) we get the third state, then we have to have a federal legislature willing to officially excuse the lateness. Then, and only then, 51% of the population gets included in the Constitution, finally.
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It’s bizarre to me there was any controversy about it at all, but then, I’m just a woman.
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My fear is that they include some sort of definition along the lines of “equal rights whether a man or woman” and still leave non-cis folk in a quagmire.
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Both Sanders and Harris voted for fosta.
(And the fixing-posts breaks-posts bug strikes again…)
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That’s so sad.
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Okay, this might sound weird…
Has anybody here ever read the book “The Dirty Dozen” by E. M. Nathanson? Because it gives a detailed look into the masculine psyche. It’s vastly different from the film in that you know what’s going on inside these men who’ve been damaged to various degrees. Folks tend to forget the movie was based on a book; they remember Lee Marvin and Donald Sutherland and Jim Brown and all the gunfire and explosions.
If anyone does decide to pick it up and read it. It’s a long book, but well-written and worth the read. Trust me on this one.
And I just Wiki’ed him; the author died last year. DAMN.
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Multiple times. The movie is okay but the book… Damn.
I wish I knew where my copy was for a re-read, now.
ETA: it’s also one of the better depictions I have seen as to how racism produces stereotypes. White acts like a thug (despite being an intellectual) because no one treats him any other way. Even in what the movie turns into a redemption moment for him (life turned around by the white saviour who taught him self-esteem) he’s motivated in the book by the lifetime of racism.
Seriously good, complicated book, better than the movie but no happy ending.
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I love you even more now. I thought I was the only one who’d ever read the book. I kid you not.
Also, Reisman’s conflict between being half Jewish as a religion and a nationality/ethnicity and half Roman Catholic as a religion and Italian as a nationality/ethnicity. The theme of Law vs. Justice vs. Mercy, too, is handled superbly.
I found out from his Wikipedia entry that he heard the taie from - get ready - Russ Meyer! WEIRDDDD!!
And my copy’s falling apart, but a repairable hardcover.
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Yeah, the movie really lost Reisman’s perspective by making him a white Southerner who is part of the power structure. It’s partly his own fight for identity that makes him identify and sympathise with the marginalised misfits – he has far less sympathy and understanding for the racist and the mob psychopath.
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The text of the ERA is pretty straightforward, and I see no danger of such abuse, especially in light of growing legal precedents acknowledging that LGBT issues should generally be considered subsets of gender equality.
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
If anything it doesn’t go far enough in securing reproductive rights, etc.
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