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Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#9926: Mar 28th 2024 at 7:25:32 PM

The charing of UN groups is not determined based on a country’s commitment or interest in the mission of that group. What countries sit on each group is based on allocations to each regional grouping (with the Arab World effectively bouncing between the Africa and Asia groups) and then a vote of the nations within that group.

So CSW has 11 members from the Asia group which includes Saudi Arabia because the Asia group gives some seats specifically to Arab Countries in Asia and Saudi Arabia is a powerful nation of that group.

The chairing of the CSW then rotates amongst the different groups, the Asia group is going to have the chair and they selected Saudi Arabia as their person to be the chair, likely because it’s the turn of Arab nation in the Asia group to be the one the group puts forward as chair.

The subject matter covered by UN committees and commissions is in no way connected to membership or chairing of said committees and commissions.

Edited by Silasw on Mar 28th 2024 at 2:26:55 PM

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xyzt Since: Apr, 2017 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#9927: Mar 28th 2024 at 7:38:04 PM

The chairing of the CSW then rotates amongst the different groups, the Asia group is going to have the chair and they selected Saudi Arabia as their person to be the chair, likely because it’s the turn of Arab nation in the Asia group to be the one the group puts forward as chair.

As per a guardian article, Bangladesh was expected to take over but the Saudi govt lobbied for the position and got it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/saudi-arabia-un-womens-rights-commission

Alwasil was endorsed by the group of Asia-Pacific states on the commission. When the outgoing chair, the Filipino envoy to the UN, Antonio Manuel Lagdameo, asked the 45 members if they had any objections there was silence in the chamber.“I hear no objection. It is so decided,” Lagdameo said. Normally a country holds the chair for two years, but the Philippines was put under pressure from other members of the Asia group to split its tenure and pass the post on to another country after one year. Bangladesh was expected to take over but late in the process, Saudi Arabia stepped in and lobbied for the chair, in what is widely seen as an attempt to burnish the kingdom’s image.

Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#9928: Mar 29th 2024 at 3:44:28 PM

To be perfectly honest the UN does so many things stupid I have very little faith in anything they do.

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#9929: Mar 31st 2024 at 4:39:14 PM

IIRC, the Immoral Republic was also in the running for some high ranking "feminist" UN position as well, Mur.

Edited by SkyCat32 on Mar 31st 2024 at 7:39:31 AM

CosmosAndChaos Peach from Brazil (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
Peach
#9930: Apr 10th 2024 at 9:57:35 AM

Something I find weird. Sometimes, when a group of women protest against the ban on abortion(or other issues women face for being women), they use pink signs or wear pink shirts. While they have the right to protest, choosing the color pink kind of confuses me, cause it reinforces the idea of associating two certain colors(pink and blue) with gender, and well, colors have no gender.

Edited by CosmosAndChaos on Apr 10th 2024 at 1:58:02 PM

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#9931: Apr 10th 2024 at 10:06:49 AM

colors have no gender.

In your opinion, maybe, but it's not an universally shared one. A lot of people associate certain colours with things.

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shatterstar Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: I wanna know about these strangers like me
#9932: Dec 17th 2024 at 5:13:23 PM

Oh nice. The country where a robot in the shape of a woman has more rights than the actual human women.

DoubleOG (Apprentice)
#9933: Dec 17th 2024 at 6:16:40 PM

Context?

Edited by DoubleOG on Dec 17th 2024 at 6:17:06 AM

shatterstar Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: I wanna know about these strangers like me
#9934: Dec 17th 2024 at 6:43:20 PM

[up] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot)

Sophia the robot received a Saudi citizenship and she can drives her own vehicles, which means she has more rights than Saudi women

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#9935: Dec 17th 2024 at 6:50:05 PM

Women in Saudi can drive tho.

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shatterstar Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: I wanna know about these strangers like me
#9936: Dec 17th 2024 at 8:23:19 PM

[up] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41761856.amp

This article goes a little more in depth. The driving thing is a misremembering on my part but it was very close since the ban was only lifted in September of that year

Edited by shatterstar on Dec 17th 2024 at 8:24:25 AM

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#9937: Dec 17th 2024 at 9:56:15 PM

Ah yeah, I remember that debacle. Saudi women were understandably pissed to high Heaven at the implication that, in the eyes of their leader, they were apparently considered such third-class citizens, SO utterly worthless and subhuman that a ROBOT deserved more rights than them.

That was quite a few years ago: Aside from the driving, how’s the situation for Saudi women these days? Largely the same?

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#9938: Dec 18th 2024 at 12:25:59 AM

[up] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia.

TLDR: Since 2017 there has been notable strike in women right. Of course this is still a very conservative Muslim country we are talking about so there is a LOT to go. The current rank for gender equality index is 127 out of 146 countries.

Edited by shatterstar on Dec 18th 2024 at 12:27:20 PM

Travsam The Reconqueror from The Spanish side of Europe Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: My elf kissing days are over
The Reconqueror
#9939: Dec 18th 2024 at 8:00:38 AM

I am not sure if there is anything more sexist than underwear store TV commercials.

For the biggest chains in Spain the logic is the same:

Holiday pajamas and funny underwear for men and children... sexy lingerie for women (while doing stuff that would probably you will not do in lingerie...)

Indeed, my wife was really bonkers on a funny boxer she saw in the man underwear commercial, but felt dissapointed that nothing funny was for women in that same store. She felt the way the stores handle their products very sexist.

Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#9940: Dec 30th 2024 at 5:06:19 AM

From last week: Andrew Tate's human trafficking case cannot proceed in trial, and is sent back to the prosecutor for further review

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8g32l4xyvo

This is a setback, hope it won't mean the end of the case alltogether.

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TheLivingDrawing Lucas the Dreamer from The Town of Clayton Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Lucas the Dreamer
#9941: Dec 30th 2024 at 6:03:30 AM

[up][up] Victoria's Secret was a shop created by men for husbands rather than for women for wives. Its rather gross.

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Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#9942: Jan 15th 2025 at 3:26:26 PM

Andrew Tate's house arrest has been lifted

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/romanian-courts-lifts-house-arrest-internet-celebrity-andrew-tate-2025-01-14/

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Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#9943: Jan 15th 2025 at 4:10:29 PM

[up] Great... So what's the reason?

Travsam The Reconqueror from The Spanish side of Europe Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: My elf kissing days are over
The Reconqueror
#9944: Jan 15th 2025 at 11:59:13 PM

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I understand your point. Given the funny innuendo that has the Intimissimi Uomo commercials against the casual sexyness of the Woman commercial, yes, the idea is to bring funny underwear to his men to play with his ding-a-ling while everyone dreams to have the women cooking eggs and bacon in lingerie without worrying to get burn.

While, still, the last times I went to Victoria Secret is because my wife found very good deals in her underwear... (lingerie is so expensive... X x)

windleopard from Nigeria Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#9945: Feb 28th 2025 at 8:30:21 PM

The above video looks at the reactions to women accusing men of abuse, with a particular focus on how famous black women like Megan Thee Stallion, Robin Givens and Kiki Palmer have been treated when they came forward with stories of being abused. Megan and Givens are particularly sad cases. Megan herself initially tried to protect Tory Lanez after he shot her but then had numerous people accuse her of lying when she did reveal it was him who shot her. And Givens was accused of being a gold digger when she accused Mike Tyson of abusing her despite having her own money and Tyson himself admitting to abusing her. The author of the video also shares her experience with abuse and how she was subject to victim blaming by friends and her abuser's own mother (who had warned her about his violent tendencies).

The author of the video discusses carceral feminism, a type of feminism that advocates for the protection of women by enhancing and increasing prison sentences. While the video author is against this and believes that the current prison system is inadequate for addressing harm, she also understands why people would subscribe to this ideology given how all too common the response to a black woman is ridicule and victim blaming.

Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#9946: Mar 14th 2025 at 12:37:53 PM

So I've just read that Andrew Tate and his brother are currently in the US. Apparently, their travel restrictions were lifted

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4kkv3e1v9o

Who wants to bet that they will not return to Romania for their trial?

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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#9947: Mar 14th 2025 at 1:39:19 PM

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Well, Florida's apparently opened their own criminal investigation into the Tate brothers, so essentially fleeing to the United States might come to bite those guys in the ass.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Mar 14th 2025 at 9:39:37 AM

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PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
Planeswalker
#9948: Mar 14th 2025 at 3:09:38 PM

US prison is probably not as bad as Romanian prison. But finally, Florida is doing something right (provided those two are rearrested).

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#9949: Mar 14th 2025 at 4:45:31 PM

They still on trial in Romania and if they are found guilty, they might not be able to set foot on any EU country.

So, their travel options are limited.

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Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#9950: Mar 14th 2025 at 5:36:21 PM

Probably going to call for going to Russia like a lot of slime.

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