It's six men [GENDER EQUALITY NOTE: OR WOMEN] racing down the hill all together with breakers at the start gate like BMX.
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.
McTighe, who was also active in the marriage equality movement, noted that wins in that area started happening only after years and years of losses. .
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.
"That shift from 2004 -- every one of those moves he made -- is what the American people did, to now the majority of Americans supporting marriage equality," he noted.
As for marriage equality, he noted, "Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve -- one man, one woman for life till death do you part.
Disabled people are still treated as second-class citizens, as the equalities watchdog noted recently, are targeted in hate crimes, and have been hit perhaps hardest by the age of austerity, with a direct impact on Paralympians: one hopeful pulled out of trials because of cuts to disability support; another has lost her car.
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").
