#equality

Comic on #sexuality, #gender, #feminism

The Christian’s 8 attitudes for an unjust society
▻http://randalmatheny.com/attitudes-unjust-society

How should the saints of God act in this moment? They should carry on as usual, but the following points may be helpful.

#essays #equality #justice #respect #responsibility #righteousness

Juste Avant

Dans « Juste Avant », un documentaire en 7 épisodes, sortie le 1er décembre 2019, Ovidie questionne la façon dont on éduque une adolescente quand on est mère et féministe, à travers une série de conversations avec sa fille de 14 ans. Les échanges mère-fille s’entrecroisent avec les témoignages des proches et les réflexions sur sa propre construction.

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Juste Avant (7/7) - Epilogue

Juste Avant (6/7) - Sois belle et bats-toi !

Juste Avant (5/7) - Toi, moi, et notre petit matriarcat

Juste Avant (4/7) - Le temps de la capote à 1 franc

Juste Avant (3/7) - « Tu sais ce que c’est le consentement ? »

Juste Avant (2/7) - La maman ou la putain

Juste Avant (1/7) - Moi à ton âge

►http://www.nouvellesecoutes.fr/podcasts/intime-politique

#maculinity #paternalistic #nightmare #digital_penetration #consent #college #high_school #social_network #Instagram #Snapchat #pressure #toxic_relationship #rape #post_MeToo #safe_place #sexuality #equality #contraception #STI #AIDS #HIV #school #abortion #condom #morning-after_pill #practical_knowledge #theoretical_knowledge #political_reflexion #distance #third_party #vaccination #pregnant #youth #traumatism #mariage #couple #tradition #divorce #matriarchy #co_parent #food #internet #beauty #weight_watchers #epilation #awareness #body

The common denominator – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2019/12/01/common-denominator

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Somebody once said that the great leveler is the truth that we all have to sit on the toilet. Somebody else thought it was that we all must die one day.

#equality #humanity

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In London, a city where a third of the population identifies as black, Asian and minority ethnic, 86% of male cyclists and 94% of female cyclists are white – and two thirds of all cyclists are male.

Despite the former Mayor of London, Boris Johnson’s strategy to improve the demographics of cycling, it still maintains a very much white, male, middle class constituency.

▻https://theconversation.com/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-cycling-76256
#equality #inclusion #biking

#Abigail_Shrier : La guerre transgenriste menée contre les femmes
▻https://tradfem.wordpress.com/2019/03/28/la-guerre-transgenriste-menee-contre-les-femmes

Il est devenu justement à la mode de ridiculiser l’idée d’« espaces sûrs », des endroits où certains adultes peuvent se cacher et bouder comme des enfants pour éviter les idées qu’ils trouvent menaçantes. Mais les femmes ont besoin d’espaces sûrs réels, non pas à l’abri de défis intellectuels, bien sûr, mais en regard de menaces physiques réelles de violences de la part des hommes. C’est un fait biologique que la plupart des femmes sont physiquement désavantagées face aux hommes. Ceux-ci sont plus forts et plus rapides que nous, bien que nous soyons mieux à même de tolérer la douleur et avons tendance à vivre plus longtemps.

Les démocrates de la Chambre des représentants américains ont présenté ce mois-ci un projet de loi qui proscrirait les espaces sûrs pour les femmes.

L’Equality Act (Loi sur l’égalité) – ainsi appelée parce que, pour dire les choses charitablement, les démocrates excellent dans la création d’images de marque – prétend simplement étendre aux personnes gaies et transgenres la protection de la Loi sur les droits civiques de 1964. Dans la mesure où elle interdirait aux propriétaires d’expulser des locataires et aux employeurs de congédier des employé·e·s en raison de leur orientation sexuelle, cette loi vient combler une nécessité de longue date.

Mais le projet de loi va beaucoup plus loin en proposant d’interdire toute discrimination fondée sur ce qu’elle appelle l’« identité de genre ». Cette revendication fait directement concurrence aux droits fondamentaux des femmes et des filles. En effet, en vertu de la Loi sur l’égalité, tout homme biologique disant « s’identifier comme femme » aurait le droit d’entrer dans les toilettes des femmes, leurs vestiaires et les établissements dédiés à leur protection, tels que les refuges pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale. Cela exposerait les femmes et les filles à des risques immédiats de violence physique.

Traduction : #Tradfem
Version originale : ▻https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-transgender-war-on-women-11553640683
#equality_act #trangenriste #espace_safe #femme

#php #operators (part 2)
▻https://hackernoon.com/php-operators-part-2-85f39530994b?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

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IntroductionOperators in PHP are a vast subject and not always fully understood.One of the reasons for all these misunderstandings is that some operators are very simple and can be implemented in the code within seconds after reading about them,Others instead,are almost unknown and, once studied, it is still better to use them sparingly.Although operators belong to the category “basics of language”, a misuse utilization of them or a typo while using them is very difficult to identify.It may happen to lose more than half an hour of your time just trying to debug some code and then discover that the symbol of #equality had been inserted instead of the one of inequality.Personal experience (Sigh).After you have discovered the main types of PHP operators in my previous blog post.Below you (...)

#php-development #programming

In Common
▻http://randalmatheny.com/in-common

A quatrain that recalls Proverbs 29.

#poetry #equality #Poetry

Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser

▻http://habermas-rawls.blogspot.com/2017/08/essays-in-honor-of-nancy-fraser.html

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Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique

Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser Ed. by Banu Bargu & Chiara Bottici (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) 332 pages
▻http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319523859#otherversion=9783319523866

Description

This edited collection examines the relationship between three central terms — capitalism, feminism, and critique — while critically celebrating the work and life of a thinker who has done the most to address this nexus: Nancy Fraser. In honor of her seventieth birthday, and in the spirit of her work in the tradition of critical theory, this collection brings together scholars from different disciplines and theoretical approaches to address this conjunction and evaluate Fraser’s lifelong contributions to theorizing it. Scholars from #philosophy, #political_science, #sociology, #gender_studies, #race_theory and #economics come together to think through the vicissitudes of capitalism and feminism while also responding to different elements of Nancy Fraser’s work, which weaves together a strong feminist standpoint with a vibrant and complex critique of capitalism.

Contents [preview] ▻https://books.google.dk/books?id=mDkuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP3&lpg=PP3&dq=Feminism,+Capitalism,+and+Criti

1. Introduction - Banu Bargu & Chiara Bottici
2. From Socialist Feminism to the Critique of Global Capitalism - Richard J. Bernstein
3. Debates on Slavery, Capitalism and Race: Old and New - Robin Blackburn
4. Feminism, Capitalism, and the Social Regulation of Sexuality - Johanna Oksala
5. Capitalism’s Insidious Charm vs. Women’s and Sexual Liberation - Cinzia Arruzza
6. The Long Life of Nancy Fraser’s “Rethinking the #Public_Sphere” - Jane Mansbridge
7. Feminism, #Ecology, and Capitalism - María Pía Lara
8. Recognition, Redistribution, and Participatory Parity - William E. Scheuerman
9. (Parity of) #Participation – The Missing Link Between Resources and Resonance - Hartmut Rosa
10. Curbing the Absolute Power of Disembedded Financial Markets - Alessandro Ferrara
11. Hegel and Marx: A Reassessment After One Century [video] - Axel Honneth
12. Crisis, Contradiction, and the Task of a #Critical_Theory - Rachel Jaeggi
13. What’s Critical About a Critical Theory of Justice? - Rainer Forst
14. Beyond Kant Versus Hegel - Amy Allen
15. Nancy Fraser and the Left: A Searching Idea of #Equality - Eli Zaretsky

Nancy Fraser’s Bibliography

See also Lucas Ballestin’s review of the book here:
▻https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3320-redefining-feminist-scholarship-nancy-fraser-s-work-celebrated-in-a

via ▻http://02mydafsoup-01.soup.io/post/631018711/Essays-in-Honor-of-Nancy-Fraser

#Nancy_Fraser
#Feminism #Capitalism #Critique #Essays

#Esohe_Aghatise : Il ne peut y avoir d’amnistie pour ceux qui achètent des relations sexuelles – même avec le consentement des femmes

▻http://tradfem.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/il-ne-peut-y-avoir-damnistie-pour-ceux-qui-achetent-des-relations

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Cette semaine à Dublin [ndt : en 2015], environ 500 délégué-e-s d’Amnesty International venant de plus de 80 pays, voteront sur une proposition concernant la prostitution, qui recommanderait de décriminaliser à la fois l’achat et la vente de relations sexuelles, ainsi que le proxénétisme et la tenue de bordels. La logique alléguée est qu’il y a égalité des sexes dès que la prostitution est un acte consensuel, mais aussi qu’acheter des relations sexuelles à des femmes dans la prostitution est un droit important pour certains hommes qui veulent améliorer « leur jouissance de la vie et leur dignité ».

En tant que personne qui a travaillé auprès de personnes prostituées durant plusieurs décennies, je sais exactement ce que signifie la notion de « consentement » dans le cadre de l’industrie du sexe. La grande majorité des femmes qui y entrent le font en l’absence de choix réels. Plusieurs d’entre elles sont des enfants, ou l’étaient quand elles sont censées avoir consenti à cela pour la première fois.

Ceux qui achètent des relations sexuelles sont la raison qui rend la violence et la discrimination partie intégrante de l’industrie du sexe. C’est à cause d’eux que des filles de plus en plus jeunes sont sujettes à la traite des êtres humains, et que le crime organisé est attiré par les pays qui décriminalisent cette industrie.

La légalisation de l’industrie du sexe a échoué lamentablement partout où elle a été introduite. En Allemagne et aux Pays-Bas, la violence et la traite ont considérablement augmenté. Ces pays font présentement marche arrière en regard de leurs politiques antérieures. En Nouvelle-Zélande, selon un rapport de 2008, les femmes dans la prostitution ont témoigné qu’elles n’étaient pas plus susceptibles de signaler des actes de violences à la police ou d’accéder à des services de santé qu’avant la dépénalisation.

Traduction : #Tradfem
Version originale : ▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/sex-trade-amnesty-vote

#amnesty_international #Esohe_Aghatise #prostitution #equality_now

Paris suspect who blew herself up was angry cops assumed she was alleged attack planner’s girlfriend
▻http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/11/19/female_terrorist_hasna_aitboulahcen_apparently_upset_about_police_assumption. #feminism

French SWAT has been sent off to #gender #equality sensitivity training.

The French are incredibly fertile, gender equality plays major factor
▻http://jezebel.com/the-french-are-incredibly-fertile-gender-equality-play-1692821063
#France #reproduction #demography #gender #equality

France’s big secret: Don’t make having children financially or socially punitive for women.

#Haile_Selassie, Speech to #UN October 6 1963 - YouTube
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wszwI1E24eM

H.I.M. Haile Selassie address to the #Unted_Nations Oct 6, 1963
▻http://www.nazret.com/history/him_un.php

Mr. President, Distinguished Delegates:
Twenty-seven years ago, as Emperor of #Ethiopia, I mounted the rostrum in Geneva, Switzerland, to address the League of Nations and to appeal for relief from the destruction which had been unleashed against my defenseless nation, by the Fascist invader.I spoke then both to and for the conscience of the world. My words went unheeded, but history testifies to the accuracy of the warning that I gave in 1936.

Today, I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor. In this body is enshrined the principle of collective security which I unsuccessfully invoked at Geneva. Here, in this Assembly, reposes the best - perhaps the last - hope for the peaceful survival of mankind.

In 1936, I declared that it was not the Covenant of the League that was at stake, but #international_morality. Undertakings, I said then, are of little worth if the will to keep them is lacking. The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

But these, too, as were the phrases of the Covenant, are only words; their value depends wholly on our will to observe and honor them and give them content and meaning. The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man’s basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. These lessons must be learned anew by each succeeding generation, and that generation is fortunate indeed which learns from other than its own bitter experience. This Organization and each of its members bear a crushing and awesome responsibility: to absorb the wisdom of history and to apply it to the problems of the present, in order that future generations may be born, and live, and die, in peace.

The record of the United Nations during the few short years of its life affords mankind a solid basis for encouragement and hope for the future. The United Nations has dared to act, when the League dared not in Palestine, in Korea, in Suez, in the Congo. There is not one among us today who does not conjecture upon the reaction of this body when motives and actions are called into question. The opinion of this Organization today acts as a powerful influence upon the decisions of its members. The spotlight of world opinion, focused by the United Nations upon the transgressions of the renegades of human society, has thus far proved an effective safeguard against unchecked aggression and unrestricted violation of human rights.

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion. It still provides the essential escape valve without which the slow build-up of pressures would have long since resulted in catastrophic explosion. Its actions and decisions have speeded the achievement of freedom by many peoples on the continents of Africa and Asia. Its efforts have contributed to the advancement of the standard of living of peoples in all corners of the world.

For this, all men must give thanks. As I stand here today, how faint, how remote are the memories of 1936.How different in 1963 are the attitudes of men. We then existed in an atmosphere of suffocating pessimism. Today, cautious yet buoyant optimism is the prevailing spirit. But each one of us here knows that what has been accomplished is not enough.

The United Nations judgments have been and continue to be subject to frustration, as individual member-states have ignored its pronouncements and disregarded its recommendations. The Organization’s sinews have been weakened, as member-states have shirked their obligations to it. The authority of the Organization has been mocked, as individual member-states have proceeded, in violation of its commands, to pursue their own aims and ends. The troubles which continue to plague us virtually all arise among member states of the Organization, but the Organization remains impotent to enforce acceptable solutions. As the maker and enforcer of the international law, what the United Nations has achieved still falls regrettably short of our goal of an international community of nations.

This does not mean that the United Nations has failed. I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential highmindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests. Not even now, when so much is at hazard would many nations willingly entrust their destinies to other hands.

Yet, this is the ultimatum presented to us: secure the conditions whereby men will entrust their security to a larger entity, or risk annihilation; persuade men that their salvation rests in the subordination of national and local interests to the interests of humanity, or endanger man’s future. These are the objectives, yesterday unobtainable, today essential, which we must labor to achieve.

Until this is accomplished, mankind’s future remains hazardous and permanent peace a matter for speculation. There is no single magic formula, no one simple step, no words, whether written into the Organization’s Charter or into a treaty between states, which can automatically guarantee to us what we seek. Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. #Peace is not an “is”, it is a “becoming.” We cannot escape the dreadful possibility of catastrophe by miscalculation. But we can reach the right decisions on the myriad subordinate problems which each new day poses, and we can thereby make our contribution and perhaps the most that can be reasonably expected of us in 1963 to the preservation of peace. It is here that the United Nations has served us - not perfectly, but well. And in enhancing the possibilities that the Organization may serve us better, we serve and bring closer our most cherished goals.

I would mention briefly today two particular issues which are of deep concern to all men: disarmament and the establishment of true equality among men. Disarmament has become the urgent imperative of our time. I do not say this because I equate the absence of arms to peace, or because I believe that bringing an end to the nuclear arms race automatically guarantees the peace, or because the elimination of nuclear warheads from the arsenals of the world will bring in its wake that change in attitude requisite to the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations. Disarmament is vital today, quite simply, because of the immense destructive capacity of which men dispose.

Ethiopia supports the atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty as a step towards this goal, even though only a partial step. Nations can still perfect weapons of mass destruction by underground testing. There is no guarantee against the sudden, unannounced resumption of testing in the atmosphere.

The real significance of the treaty is that it admits of a tacit stalemate between the nations which negotiated it, a stalemate which recognizes the blunt, unavoidable fact that none would emerge from the total destruction which would be the lot of all in a nuclear war, a stalemate which affords us and the United Nations a breathing space in which to act.

Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men. Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions. This very Organization itself is the greatest such institution, and it is in a more powerful United Nations that we seek, and it is here that we shall find, the assurance of a peaceful future.

Were a real and effective disarmament achieved and the funds now spent in the arms race devoted to the amelioration of man’s state; were we to concentrate only on the peaceful uses of nuclear knowledge, how vastly and in how short a time might we change the conditions of mankind. This should be our goal.

When we talk of the #equality of #man, we find, also, a challenge and an opportunity; a challenge to breathe new life into the ideals enshrined in the Charter, an opportunity to bring men closer to freedom and true equality. and thus, closer to a #love of #peace.

The goal of the equality of man which we seek is the antithesis of the exploitation of one people by another with which the pages of history and in particular those written of the African and Asian continents, speak at such length. Exploitation, thus viewed, has many faces. But whatever guise it assumes, this evil is to be shunned where it does not exist and crushed where it does. It is the sacred duty of this Organization to ensure that the dream of equality is finally realized for all men to whom it is still denied, to guarantee that exploitation is not reincarnated in other forms in places whence it has already been banished.

As a free Africa has emerged during the past decade, a fresh attack has been launched against exploitation, wherever it still exists. And in that interaction so common to history, this in turn, has stimulated and encouraged the remaining dependent peoples to renewed efforts to throw off the yoke which has oppressed them and its claim as their birthright the twin ideals of liberty and equality. This very struggle is a struggle to establish peace, and until victory is assured, that brotherhood and understanding which nourish and give life to peace can be but partial and incomplete.

In the United States of America, the administration of President Kennedy is leading a vigorous attack to eradicate the remaining vestige of racial discrimination from this country. We know that this conflict will be won and that right will triumph. In this time of trial, these efforts should be encouraged and assisted, and we should lend our sympathy and support to the American Government today.

Last May, in Addis Ababa, I convened a meeting of Heads of African States and Governments. In three days, the thirty-two nations represented at that Conference demonstrated to the world that when the will and the determination exist, nations and peoples of diverse backgrounds can and will work together. in unity, to the achievement of common goals and the assurance of that equality and brotherhood which we desire.

On the question of racial discrimination, the Addis Ababa Conference taught, to those who will learn, this further lesson: That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will; Until all #Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace. We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.

The United Nations has done much, both directly and indirectly to speed the disappearance of discrimination and oppression from the earth. Without the opportunity to focus world opinion on Africa and Asia which this Organization provides, the goal, for many, might still lie ahead, and the struggle would have taken far longer. For this, we are truly grateful.

But more can be done. The basis of racial discrimination and colonialism has been economic, and it is with economic weapons that these evils have been and can be overcome. In pursuance of resolutions adopted at the Addis Ababa Summit Conference, African States have undertaken certain measures in the economic field which, if adopted by all member states of the United Nations, would soon reduce intransigence to reason. I ask, today, for adherence to these measures by every nation represented here which is truly devoted to the principles enunciated in the Charter.

I do not believe that Portugal and South Africa are prepared to commit economic or physical suicide if honorable and reasonable alternatives exist. I believe that such alternatives can be found. But I also know that unless peaceful solutions are devised, counsels of moderation and temperance will avail for naught; and another blow will have been dealt to this Organization which will hamper and weaken still further its usefulness in the struggle to ensure the victory of peace and liberty over the forces of strife and oppression. Here, then, is the opportunity presented to us. We must act while we can, while the occasion exists to exert those legitimate pressures available to us, lest time run out and resort be had to less happy means.

Does this Organization today possess the authority and the will to act? And if it does not, are we prepared to clothe it with the power to create and enforce the rule of law? Or is the Charter a mere collection of words, without content and substance, because the essential spirit is lacking? The time in which to ponder these questions is all too short. The pages of history are full of instances in which the unwanted and the shunned nonetheless occurred because men waited to act until too late. We can brook no such delay.

If we are to survive, this Organization must survive. To survive, it must be strengthened. Its executive must be vested with great authority. The means for the enforcement of its decisions must be fortified, and, if they do not exist, they must be devised. Procedures must be established to protect the small and the weak when threatened by the strong and the mighty. All nations which fulfill the conditions of membership must be admitted and allowed to sit in this assemblage.

Equality of representation must be assured in each of its organs. The possibilities which exist in the United Nations to provide the medium whereby the hungry may be fed, the naked clothed, the ignorant instructed, must be seized on and exploited for the flower of peace is not sustained by poverty and want. To achieve this requires courage and confidence. The courage, I believe, we possess. The confidence must be created, and to create confidence we must act courageously.

The great nations of the world would do well to remember that in the modern age even their own fates are not wholly in their hands. Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse? It is not only the small and the weak who must scrupulously observe their obligations to the United Nations and to each other. Unless the smaller nations are accorded their proper voice in the settlement of the world’s problems, unless the equality which Africa and Asia have struggled to attain is reflected in expanded membership in the institutions which make up the United Nations, confidence will come just that much harder. Unless the rights of the least of men are as assiduously protected as those of the greatest, the seeds of confidence will fall on barren soil.

The stake of each one of us is identical - life or death. We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

When I spoke at Geneva in 1936, there was no precedent for a head of state addressing the League of Nations. I am neither the first, nor will I be the last head of state to address the United Nations, but only I have addressed both the League and this Organization in this capacity. The problems which confront us today are, equally, unprecedented. They have no counterparts in human experience. Men search the pages of history for solutions, for precedents, but there are none. This, then, is the ultimate challenge. Where are we to look for our survival, for the answers to the questions which have never before been posed? We must look, first, to Almighty God, Who has raised man above the animals and endowed him with intelligence and reason. We must put our faith in Him, that He will not desert us or permit us to destroy humanity which He created in His image. And we must look into ourselves, into the depth of our souls. We must become something we have never been and for which our education and experience and environment have ill-prepared us. We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

#The_Lion_of_Judah #jah #Rastafari #War

▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_%28Bob_Marley_song%29

►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFHYyErkA0

►http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/node/598 The myth of the happy poor

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Submitted by Kathryn Busby on 27 July 2011

When researcher Anna Barford [external link] was running discussion groups for her PhD research on international attitudes to inequality, she found that the idea of “the happy poor” frequently cropped up.

Anna Barford

“Some suppose the poor to be happy because they are less materialistic and more focused on friendship. This argument is sometimes extended to imply that poverty even makes people happy..... Denying that inequality is problematic, based on happiness being important and the poor being happy, offers a pretext for not thinking more deeply about the impacts of inequality.” - The Myth of the Happy Poor [http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/docs/happy-myth-anna-barford.pdf]

#equality