Lee Daniels Is Confused by #MeToo, Asking ‘Is It Crazy Enough or Have We Gone Too Far?’

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On Thursday, director Lee Daniels was interviewed by Bevy Smith on her Radio Andy show Bevelations. The conversation eventually turned to the #MeToo movement, with Daniels asking the question all famous men (and women!) have been asking recently: “Is it crazy enough or have we gone too far? I don’t know, I’m all confused.”

Claiming that he’s never had a sexual relationship with one of his actors, Daniels was adamant in stating, “I never sleep where I shit, I never sleep where I eat.”

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A Conversation with Michaela Mendelsohn, the Fast-Food CEO Determined to Bring Jobs to the Trans…

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Ever since, she’s been a major force within the LGBTQ community, particularly as the founder of TransCanWork, a nationwide effort to help “transgender people thrive in the workplace”; and vice chair of The Trevor Project, an organization that provides “crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth.” In addition, she was named the National Face of Diversity by the restaurant industry earlier this year, and next month, she’ll serve as the Grand Marshal of the 2018 L.A. Pride Parade.

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Intel faces age discrimination allegations following layoffs

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Intel’s push for greater diversity hasn’t helped it avoid trouble. The Wall Street Journal has learned that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating claims that Intel’s large-scale layoffs discriminated against older employees. In a May 2016 round that cut 2,300 workers, for instance, the median age of those let go was 49 — seven years older than those who remained. The EEOC hasn’t decided whether or not it will file a class-action lawsuit against Intel, but the affected people will be free to pursue civil lawsuits if the regulator doesn’t find enough evidence to pursue its own case.

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Aberdeen sanitary product pilot to start across Scotland – BBC News

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A project to provide free sanitary products to women from low income households in Aberdeen is to be rolled out across the country.
The Scottish government scheme – designed to tackle “period poverty” – was launched in July last year.
The six-month pilot was continued in March, and has distributed free products to more than 1,000 women.
Equalities Secretary Angela Constance has announced the project will be extended across Scotland.

via Aberdeen sanitary product pilot to start across Scotland – BBC News

Police Are More Likely to Arrest You at a Protest Where People Actually Give a Shit, Study Finds

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A new study from the University of Southern California (USC) suggests that there is a correlation between an increase in violence at protests and tweets with “moral content” concerning what the protest is about—like, say, police violence. But dig a bit deeper, and you’ll find that the study’s implications are more complicated than that.

The research paper, which was published in the journal Nature Behavior last week, states, “When people encounter others who share their moral attitudes, those attitudes are validated and reinforced and, as moral beliefs become more intransigent, the likelihood of advocating or enacting violence to achieve desired moral ends (for example, topple a corrupt government, alter policing practices, stop the removal of a statue or defend the purity of one’s race) may increase.”

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Hunt ‘determined’ to eliminate doctors’ gender pay gap – BBC News

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A review announced by the health secretary will look at why male doctors are paid on average £10,000 more than female doctors, as the BBC reported.
Across the whole NHS, women are paid 23% less than men despite far more women being employed.
A leading female doctor is to lead the review into the reasons behind the gap.
Prof Jane Dacre, president of the Royal College of Physicians, will lead the independent review into gender pay inequality.

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The Government Is ‘Not Legally Responsible’ For Losing Nearly 1,500 Refugee Children

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As for what happens to those children, migrant rights expert Michelle Brané told Mother Jones on Friday that frankly “we don’t know,” as the ORR “does very little to no follow-up.” In 2014, the Washington Post got a preview of what can happen to those children, as in the case of a group of minors who were given over to traffickers posing as family friends and ended up enslaved in an Ohio egg farm, where they lived in roach-infested trailers and spent their days debeaking chickens and cleaning the pens.

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What some women and girls have to put in their underwear each month – BBC News

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We asked photographic artist Maisie Cousins to interpret the lengths that some people in the UK have to go to because of their periods.

Poverty, homelessness or stigma forces some women and girls to come up with makeshift sanitary products.

Her photographs here are in contrast to the sanitised images of periods often seen in advertising and media.

Here are some of the items that a 2018 survey by charity Plan International found that women and girls use instead of traditional sanitary products.

via What some women and girls have to put in their underwear each month – BBC News

Federal officials lost – yes, lost – 1,475 migrant children

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The Trump administration recently announced a new, get-tough policy that will separate parents from their children if the family is caught crossing the border illegally.

It was a big news story. So big it overshadowed the fact that the federal government has lost – yes, lost – 1,475 migrant children in its custody.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told Congress that within 48 hours of being taken into custody the children are transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services, which finds places for them to stay.

“They will be separated from their parent,” said Democratic Sen Kamala Harris.

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Ireland Appears to Have Voted in a Landslide to Repeal Abortion Ban

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During the campaign, the story of a woman named Savita Halappanavar was again used to push for change. Halappanavar died in 2012, the Guardian reports, after suffering a miscarriage in Galway. She went to the hospital 17 weeks pregnant and in extreme pain, and was told a miscarriage was likely inevitable. However, she was refused a number of times after asking for an abortion, because a fetal heartbeat was detected. Abortion is against the law in Ireland even in cases of “rape, incest or fatal fetal abnormality.” She died from sepsis eight days after being admitted, at the age of 31.

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