Quote of the Day: “If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.” Eleanor Roosevelt, 05 November 1958
So, on International Women’s Day (IWD), TheRecord runs a silly little “Quote of the Day” by some guy named Colin Powell. For all of the virtual signalling that TheRecord has done over the last few years, could they not come up with some quote by some woman of significance today? How about a quote from Cher or Lady Gaga or Oprah or some other intellectual giant of our times? Nope – Colin Powell. Way Too Funny… (At least I used a world famous quote by Eleanor Roosevelt as my contribution for today… And I think you can safely update “TV” with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter…)
Luisa D’Amato interviews Shama Saleh from TheRecords’s just awful Community Editorial Board. I’ve written about Saleh before – the perpetual victim. In the first couple of sentences, Saleh recounts how on a work term, some of her co-workers asked her (jokingly, I assume) if she wore her hijab in the shower. And because of this, Saleh suggest that: “You just genuinely don’t feel safe”. D’Amata goes farther and suggests: “Those attacks on her were both racist and sexist.” Oh my. I stopped reading after that.