Joanne Sandler, deputy director of UN Women, the UN entity charged with gender equality, noted that the UN system has advanced in recognizing rape in war as a specific international crime.
It is the violence of movies like the Social Network that abuse any notion of dignity and equality -- note the phrase on Zuckerberg's business card: "I'm the CEO, bitch".
But opponents of the legislation, including Equality Washington, noted that Brown's bill is seeking to create a new class of discrimination in the state instead.
Glover is against equality, and notes that most people then reach for fairness.
"The pay gap was hidden behind a lack of transparency," says Magnea Marinósdóttir of the welfare ministry's equality unit, noting that the standard could be used to justify a pay difference as much as to eliminate it.
Mr. Mayant of the racial equality group notes that the government next year plans to put in force legislation requiring all public bodies, from schools to police, to monitor their treatment of minorities.
(As an example of how America provides "adequate illusions" of social equality, he notes that fans of, say, the Los Angeles Lakers "can vicariously share in their team's triumphal quest for enduring greatness").
Third, when I wrote several weeks ago about the remarkable shift in public opinion on gay equality, I noted that this development is less significant than it seems because the cause of gay equality poses no real threat to elite factions or to how political and economic power in the US are distributed.
On marriage equality, he noted, "We're talking about redefining the rest of culture and making others both embrace, celebrate and subsidize.
Answering an audience question about how people can promote gender equality, Watson noted the importance of feminism as a daily practice.
