Yes, some of these actions are minor, but the whole point of Everyday Sexism is that much of what we are fighting is apparently "minor" – it is insidious and ingrained, and the smallest acts can start the vital shift we need to combat it.
I've excerpted full chapter from her book in the earnest hope that it will contribute to the vital shift we must all make in order to live up to the promise that 80,000 persons sleeping in tents under the same sky hold, as they bring back valuable life lessons from music festivals to their own communities.
Thus China missed the vital shifts in policies, words and political thinking that they might have picked up had they listened to voices other than the government's and engaged the country at a local level.
But amidst the grief and outrage, Mary Jane's case may well beckon a vital shift in how Indonesia investigates, prosecutes, and punishes drug-related offenses moving from executing low-level offenders to using them as informants.
Producer Brian Eno, responsible for seminal work with artists including U2, David Bowie, Coldplay, Devo and others, told me a few years ago that this new openness marks a vital shift.
When body temperatures rise, blood flow generally shifts from the vital organs to underneath the skin's surface in an effort to cool down.
The vital give-and-take voters deserve on shifting security risks has gone begging under umbrella slogans about change.
Berkowitz accurately shifted to the spade eight, which killed the vital dummy entry.
Batting in a new position, in the vital role of No3, he needed to build a foundation with Alastair Cook while shifting pressure back on to Pakistan.
It was also here that the bucolic canvases of the Barbizon School, so vital in shifting French urban artistic sensibilities to a naturalism that found its ultimate flowering in Impressionism — were painted, and where big thinkers like the Eastern mystic G. I. Gurdjieff and the artist Jean Cocteau held court away from the bustle of Paris.
First, the vital numbers.
