And you are here why?

In the presence of limited good, and of corruptible man, what is our responsibility? Is it to use present evil on behalf of present good and thereby to ensure the continuation of evil? Or is it to deny present gain in an effort to destroy evil itself?  The above questions are the underlying theme of  The Lord Of The Rings  (and has been happily appropriated from here ), and are as true today as they were back then. The more things change...

From NPR While making fun of a stereotypical Chinese accent or "black" speech patterns is today widely understood to be off limits, giggling at a strong Indian accent still seems to be up for grabs — whether you're South Asian or not. (*) Speaking for myself, yeah, I find it offensive, but tend to go along (and no, I probably shouldn't...)

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/via Pale Green Things Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority” and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person” and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay. Its a wonderful rhetorical trick - switch up the meaning of the words mid-stream, and all of a sudden that which was unreasonable is now rational and coherent. " If you won't respect me I won't respect you " - think of this in the context of police-interactions (in particular, if you are non-white), and the casual-ness with which these get justified in our society. Restating this as  " If you won't be courteous with me, I won't be courteous with you " really gets to the heart of the matter - this ...

 Michelle G points out that the simple act of thinking about stereotypes can impair your performance (if you're the one being stereotyped) To be precise, as you probably have heard of from the "women should know their place" crowd, A   large-scale 1995 meta-analysis   found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the   impact of testosterone   and   differences in brain wiring   in capacity for spatial thought. As you might have guessed, this has - only recently! - turned out to be be bullshit. How so? Well, at the University of Utah, they put men and women through pretty much the same test, except they "primed" them beforehand by asking some of the women to imagine themselves as stereotypical men, and some of the men to imagine themselves as stereotypical women. The result? Well, As it turns ...

" On what seems to be just another ordinary day, a man is exposed to sexism and sexual violence in a society ruled by women... " /via  +Benoit Chesneau