Some of the Hasidic Jews in New York are doing their best to impose their beliefs on everyone else in the area. None of the Muslims I know are pushing for sharia law across the UK, or forcing people to convert, or taxing non-Muslims. All of the Muslims I know just want to live their lives without being blown up.

There is certainly a wave of people, especially hipsters, co-opting LGBTQ status for cool points

Christ, you have the patience and stamina of a saint.

I have gay friends who also enjoy sex with women. Are they not allowed to identify as gay, then?

...example is how gay fashion designers often treat women

the misogyny of the gay community (just think women as clothes hangers in fashion).

When it was Le Pen’s father against Chirac in 2002, the latter got 80%.

I will continue to reject the idea that our politicians need to be charismatic

Oui!

I think this is why we need to deploy the significantly more sophisticated understanding of class and capital that Bourdieu provides us. Pratt (and someone like Britney Spears) may have a lot of money and adulation - but his habitus was that of a working class man during his formative years. His tastes, choices,…

Are you Aussie?

Brit here - and one constantly bemused by American pearl-clutching at ‘cunt’, although Wikipedia’s entry tells me it has a different meaning in the US and is directed towards women exclusively and carries a meaning akin to ‘slut’. Whereas for us it’s a synonym of arsehole or prick and is directed towards both men and…

Careful now, if your pecs are too big and show curvature that counts as tits according to that Julia lady.

lol

It’s a breach of the common law of confidence. Beckham successfully applied for an injunction to prevent their publication in England and Wales, but by that point it was published all over the rest of Europe/the world.

Apparently it is more common in the north of England (I’m from the south) but still not actually common.

The Thick of It is looking more and more like reality these days.

Do you guys have protection from indirect discrimination embedded in US law?

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I know that is it’s actual name and will take your word that it is called that in the UK.