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...It’s not so much a rising tide of apathy—what I see is a different kind of engagement, one that is often more mainstream than it is confrontational,” McCarthy said...
...week to “get out in the streets” to fight the crisis. Dines, who told me she considers herself a “radical feminist,” is a professor of sociology at nearby Wheelock College, where she studies the relationship between pornography and mainstream culture...
...evening: Pornography has invaded our culture to such an extent that even a woman’s behavior is altered by it. Porn causes a woman to feel immense pressure to conform to an unattainable standard of beauty and sex appeal. Dines blames everything from hard-core pornography to mainstream magazine covers of models who are “blonde, female, and white…with a ‘fuck me’ look on her face...
...good news is that the White House is seemingly the only place green hasn't gone mainstream. Just last week, 150 top global corporations - including General Electric, Johnson & Johnson and Shell - endorsed a petition calling for mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, a business position unthinkable just a year ago. Australia - a Kyoto holdout, like the U.S. - just elected a new Prime Minister with a strong environmental record who says he'll ratify the Protocol. States and cities in the U.S. have taken their own steps on climate change in the absence of action from the White House, and Congress...
...system developed in the 1850s by Thomas Hare of England and Carl Andrae of Denmark—is advantageous because voters are free to choose more marginal candidates who may not have the strongest chance at winning. Under a standard plurality voting system, voters are often pressured to choose mainstream candidates for fear that their votes would be wasted on less viable candidates...