Them: Why do you even care who runs the country?

Me: 

I’ve never seen a better use of a gif. Ever. EVER

The situation in Turkey is BEYOND horrific. People have immediately stopped talking about it, but it’s getting of course much worse than it was during the attempted coup. Because Erdogan clearly exploited that to become even much more of a dictator.

I’m not going to include graphic images of piles of prisoners in their underwear, treated like beasts, because the mere thought makes me nauseous.

He is firing teachers from colleges and High Schools who don’t comply with HIS views, he is re-introducing death penalty (which, only good side of it, will exclude him from even starting a discourse with the EU for good). He is acting like a FULL-ON dictator, Hitler-style.

Please spread awareness. The people of Turkey need help and they deserve much better than this. The UN and NATO must intervene to stop this.

Turkey’s just declared that academics can’t leave the country, and reports vary on what’s required of academics currently abroad on summer vacation from mere “urging” to return home, to a requirement to report to work tomorrow at 8:30am.  [The Telegraph, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera]

This is actually against the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13.2, which states, “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”

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Study shows Millennial Men do not think of women as their equals

A majority of millennial men failed to see women as equals, according to the study, which looked at how college biology students viewed their classmates’ intelligence and achievements, the Harvard Business Review reported.

Among the findings:

The National Institutes of Health researchers pointed out that female STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors drop out at significantly higher rates than their male counterparts.

“The reasons for this difference are complex, and one possible contributing factor is the social environment women experience in the classroom,” they wrote.

Still, scores of men are under the impression that they’ve become the target of reverse sexism. Conservative columnist John Hawkins ranted in Town Hall last year:

“Men have it rougher in America than most people realize. In part, that’s because they’re one of the few groups (along with white people, conservatives, and Christians) it’s cool to crap on at every opportunity. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a nonstop assault on masculinity in America.”

But research has confirmed the reality of gender bias against women. A staggering 90 percent of women reported experiencing gender harassment in the workplace, a 2010 University of Michigan study found. The results suggest that such harassment had the purpose of driving women out of jobs and not the generally assumed motivation of trying to draw women into relationships.

“One could argue that, in these instances, ‘sexual harassment is used both to police and discipline the gender outlaw: the woman who dares to do a man’s job is made to pay,’” the researchers wrote, quoting an article by Katherine M. Franke, an associate professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law.

As for millennial men specifically, they have been less accepting of female leaders than their older male counterparts, according to a 2014 survey of more than 2,000 adults residing in the United States, the Harvard Business Review reports.

Half of Millenial men said their careers would take priority over their partners’. 

Three-fourths of women, on the other hand, said their careers would be at least as important as their husbands’.

oh look its the shit women have been saying all the damn time and antifeminists stamp their feet and cry about

It’s like they’ve never talked to a dude before…