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- The Guardian
Wednesday 7 August 2019 33
Say
what?Britain’s
tallest donkey
could soon
become the
world’s tallest.
Five-year-old
Derrick is an
American
mammoth
jackstock
and stands at
1 metre 70cm
(5ft 7ins), a
quarter of an
inch behind the
record holder,
Romulus in
Texas. Staff
at Radcliff e
Donkey
Sanctuary in
Lincolnshire,
where Derrick
lives, describe
him as “like a
big dog”.that suggested the exact opposite.
However, to take one example, in a
2016 survey, 63% of Glamour readers
said they would not sleep with a man
who had had sex with men.
Lewis Oakley, who is bisexual, has
had fi rsthand experience of this. He
says he has lost count of the number
of women who have “ghosted” him
after he mentioned his attraction to
men as well as women. “Part of
being a bisexual man in 2019 is
having to educate people as you
go through life,” he says.
It still seems as though society
has a way to go, even though it has
been years since half of the boyband
Blue came out as bisexual. In fact,
everyone would do well to follow the
example of band member Lee Ryan’s
mum who, when she found out that
Ryan was frequently making sweet,
sweet music with fellow member
Duncan James, remarked : “I would
support him in any choice he made
in life.”
Hannah Jane ParkinsonMillennials
are lonely, but
don’t blame
technology
I
vanka Trump is concerned that the US may have a white
supremacist problem. On Sunday, as the country reeled from
two mass shootings that killed at least 31 people, she implored
Americans not just to pray for the victims, but to “raise our
voices in rejection of these heinous and cowardly acts of hate,
terror and violence ”. She further tweeted: “White supremacy,
like all other forms of terrorism, is an evil that must be destroyed.”
I had to sit down in shock after reading that tweet. F or the fi rst time
in my life, I agreed with Ivanka. I would like to extend my deepest
gratitude to the fi rst daughter for bravely pointing out the obvious:
white supremacy is terrorism. I would also like to point out the
obvious : if Ivanka gave a damn about the rise of white supremacy, she
could stroll over to her father’s offi ce and have a word with him. She
might suggest, for example, that Trump stop using the term “invasion”
to describe asylum seekers and migrants. She might suggest that he
not refer to Mexicans as “rapists”. She might suggest that he stop
telling congresswoman of colour to “go back” to their countries.
Parts of the media have been disgracefully squeamish about
calling the president a racist, preferring to use weasel words such
as “racially charged” to characterise his bigoted statements. It is
increasingly diffi cult, however, to ignore the mounting evidence
that Trump is a racist whose incessant infl ammatory statements
embolden dangerous white supremacists. The El Paso suspect is
alleged to have posted a white nationalist manifesto on the far-right
forum 8chan before Saturday’s attack; this manifesto, as has been
pointed out, uses strikingly similar language to the president. As the
Democratic presidential candidate and former El Paso congressman
Beto O’Rourke said on Monday: “ The president’s open racism is an
invitation to violence ... The action that follows cannot surprise us.”
It is n’t a stretch to say that Trump’s rhetoric helped inspire the
shooting. He has blood on his hands. And it isn’t just the president
who bears responsibility for enabling white supremacists; Ivanka has
blood on her perfectly manicured hands, too. After all, she isn’t only
the president’s daughter; she is his advis er – the only fi rst daughter
to have had an offi cial offi ce in the West Wing. She has thrust herself
into governmental aff airs in an unprecedented way.
It is easy to laugh at her , to underestimate her , to dismiss her
as a spoiled “shoe entrepreneur” who foolishly thinks she can
talk policy with world leaders at the G20. But Ivanka isn’t merely
over privileged and under qualifi ed ; she is more
insidious than that. She has helped sanitise and
soften Trump’s presidency with her faux feminism
and performative motherhood; she has given his
crassness a veneer of respectability. She isn’t just
a passive accomplice to his presidency ; she is an
active participant. Ivanka may condemn white
supremacy in her tweets, but her actions tell
another story. She has turned herself into a global
representative of Trumpism and she must bear
responsibility for what that entails. Unless she
explicitly denounces her father’s racism, one must
assume that she agrees with it.Dear men : women do not store their valuables in their
vaginas. I bring this up because a crime writer called
Stuart Woods wrote the following in one of his novels:
“ The girl had a tiny purse tucked into her vagina, just
big enough to hold her driver’s license, a credit card, and
a few bucks. ” This crime against realistic depictions of
female anatomy was revealed by the Twitter account
Men Writing Women. It contains a dizzying number of
bouncing breasts and enough anatomical howlers to
make a voluptuous teacher burst into sensual tears.Millennials aren’t just the poorest
generation ; they are also the
loneliest. According to data from
YouGov, 30% of millennials (those
born between 1982 and 1999) say they
always or often feel lonely , compared
with 20% of Gen X and 15% of baby
boomers. Also, 22% of millennials
say they have no friends, which is
a signifi cantly higher percentage
than those in older generations.
YouGov didn’t examine why
millennials feel more lonely than
other generations, but it noted a
study that found “a link between
social media use and decreased
well being ”. Social media has become
the go-to scapegoat for all manner of
modern ills , yet, while digital habits
undoubtedly aff ect mental health ,
research hasn’t provided conclusive
answers regarding the relationship
between the two. When it comes to
loneliness, I have a feeling that the
culprit isn’t so much technology as
the fact that many millennials are in
their 30s, a time when people start
focusing on advancing their careers
and building families rather than
sociali sing with pals.
It feels as if we are constantly
debating whether social media
makes us feel more connected
or more alone. That is certainly
an important discussion, but
obsessing over new tech can stop
us interrogating old traditions.
Our culture is based around
celebrating romantic and familial
milestones: engagements,
weddings, christenings. We are
not taught to venerate or celebrate
friendship in the same way we are
romantic relationships. We are not
taught that friendships can be just
as complex, if not more so, than
romantic couplings; that losing
a friend can be as heartbreaking
as losing a lover. So, when we get
to a point in our lives when our
friendships start to change, there
is no wonder it can feel so lonely.Ivanka Trump must
denounce her
father’s racism
Arwa
Mahdawi
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Rycroft-Smith started wearing
makeup at 12 or 13. She has always
allowed her daughters to play with
her makeup. “But I have told them
from a young age that makeup is
bound up with patriarchal power,”
she says. When her daughter puts on
lipstick to go out and asks how she
looks : “There is always a discussion
about how people react to you and
how do you want them to react.
What is it you want them to see?”
Hani Sidow , 23, author of the
beauty guide Insta-glam , is against
makeup for primary-school
children. At 12, she put Vaseline
on her lips and lashes. By 14 she
progressed to mascara “and one
dot of foundation” under her eyes.
Then came pencil and liquid liners,
concealer, foundation and, fi nally,
three years ago, face powder. “Even
when you’re 12, I think there’s
nothing wrong with it. If someone
feels they are ready to express
themselves, there shouldn’t be a
problem with it,” she says.
Makeup infl uencer Romanie-Jade
Tulloch, from Nottingham, creates
surreal faces with makeup. At 20,
she is closer to M ac and John Lewis’s
target audience, but fi rm about
the need to specify age limits. She
didn’t wear makeup until she was 14,
abiding by her mother’s rules (apart
from when she sneaked into her
room to practise with eyeliner). “I’ve
turned my face into anything with
makeup,” she says. “ But I didn’t feel
I had to wear makeup. The way I was
brought up taught me I didn’t have
to change myself.”
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