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Poetry - Minimal Anthology

by Fernando Pessoa

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Jul 22, 2024 04:34AM

“A 2013 UN homicide survey found that 96% 9 of homicide perpetrators worldwide are male. So is it humans who are murderous,or men?”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,'said Gimli.
'Maybe,'said Elrond,'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: truth, wisdom

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“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.”
― Caroline Criado-Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

tags: feminism, gender-equality, stereotypes

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“The time of my thought is my own to spend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“One of the most important things to say about the gender data gap is that it is not generally malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the opposite. It is simply the product of a way of thinking that has been around for millennia and is therefore a kind of not thinking. A double not thinking, even: men go without saying, and women don't get said at all. Because when we say human, on the whole, we mean man.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

tags: gender-inequality

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