India's premier sexist league
Utterly despicable.
For all its influential reach, the IPL has done little to combat the existing stereotypes about women and done everything to reinforce them
On a TV show, “advertising guru” Prahlad Kakkar argued vociferously that the IPL “is entertainment, not classical cricket” and “why can’t grown-up men have fun?” All cigar-chomping conviction, he asked: “Have you been to a men’s club?” An unintentional insight? IPL2013 on TV has certainly presented itself like a “gentlemen’s club.” As the business of cricket has gone on, its male messengers have offered sustained doses of titillation — double entendres, bump-n-grind routines from the studio dancers, salacious shots of the cheer leaders — all masked as “entertainment”.
What is particularly reprehensible is that the IPL does so without any consideration for the fact that it operates and feeds off a country currently introspecting about why it treats its women badly.
At a time when the law pertaining to crimes against women has been amended due to public pressure.
The IPL is essentially a soap opera, with barely a mention of the “sport”.
The Silencing of Catelyn Stark
Article provides an interesting viewpoint as to why Catelyn Stark is featured less in the Game of Thrones TV Show than she is in the books by George RR Martin.
“Catelyn Stark is one of the major point of view characters in A Song of Ice and Fire.She’s the character with the second most chapters in A Game of Thrones. She has more chapters in the first three books than Daenerys. And she certainly has more focus than Robb Stark, who never has a POV chapter — we see his story entirely through Catelyn’s eyes.
Not that you’d know that from watching the show. If you exclude one out-of-character speech about Jon Snow, Catelyn has probably had less than ten lines this season, and none of them have had any real bearing on the plot. What happened? Why has Catelyn Stark been silenced?
The answer to me seems simple but depressing: Catelyn Stark, as the mother figure, simply doesn’t matter.”
While the article makes some good points, I personally never enjoyed Catelyn Stark’s chapters and was surprised Robb was never given a POV chapter.
Masdar City - A Zero-Carbon City in the Middle of the Desert
“Abu Dhabi is known for its incredible wealth largely due to the oil industry, but what might be less known is that they are envisioning a future without oil. Masdar City is poised to be the first zero-emission, skyscraper-free city. Vehicles are not permitted within the city limits. Instead, mass transit will be available to help traverse the city.
Just outside the city, solar and wind farms will provide electricity. Geothermal energy will be harnessed through the world’s largest hydrogen power plant. Masdar City will welcome many clean energy companies to set up shop and will even provide the headquarters for the International Renewable Energy Agency.
By the time it is completed in 2025, 40,000 residents and 50,000 commuters will be able to live and work in Masdar City with the goal of becoming the world leader in clean energy research and technology.”
Paradise or restricted by Sharia law?
Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Another hat-tip to laissez-faire capitalism.
“The “black-market Disney guides” run $130 an hour, or $1,040 for an eight-hour day.
“My daughter waited one minute to get on ‘It’s a Small World’ — the other kids had to wait 2 1/2 hours,” crowed one mom, who hired a disabled guide through Dream Tours Florida.
“You can’t go to Disney without a tour concierge,’’ she sniffed. “This is how the 1 percent does Disney.”
The woman said she hired a Dream Tours guide to escort her, her husband and their 1-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter through the park in a motorized scooter with a “handicapped” sign on it. The group was sent straight to an auxiliary entrance at the front of each attraction.”
Google Glass 2.0: What If We Had Glass?
What if Google Glass actually became useful? And not just the headache inducing mess it currently is.
Source: youtube.com
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