What about if the woman would as well back at the man who posted it, is that a disciplinary for her?

I will take a compliment wherever I can find it. Thanks

The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council is a tax-payer funded quango with an annual budget of £7.9bn “to nurture and develop economically useful research”. It is contributing £809,000 in funding a three-year project in Scotland, Samoa and Hawaii to “Remediating Stevenson: Decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement”.

And your point is?

Stevenson the conservative writer was an observer of change in Samoa and recommended it adopt a relatively right wing approach to self-preservation. His writings are genuinely interesting and he is an icon of society. This is to develop teaching resources and also new writings plus a documentary.

His current net worth, rather bizarrely, is $5m. Maybe it will go up after this project.

RLS is a huge part of our history. But perhaps you are more of a fan of The English National Opera and English National Ballet. They get grants of just over £12 million and £6 million respectively from the taxpayer per annum.

Stanford University in the USA has produced a 13-page guide contained more than 150 words and phrases organized into 10 categories of harmful language: ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriative, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, person-first, and violent words and phrases.
“Brave,” according to the guide, is deemed harmful for perpetuating stereotypes of the “noble courageous savage.”
Instead of “seminal,” we should use “leading” or “groundbreaking,” so as not to reinforce male-dominated language. By the way you shouldn’t use the correctly hyphenated “ ground-breaking” because hyphenation is ‘othering’ – whatever that means.
Instead of “American,” the guide recommended “U.S. citizen,” to avoid insinuating that the U.S. dominates the Americas. The guide also recommends that “give it a go” take the place of “take a shot at” to avoid violent imagery. “No can do,” per the guide, should be replaced by “I can’t do it,” since the former originated from stereotypes that mocked non-native English speakers. The guide recommended replacing “submit” with “process,” as the former “can imply allowing others to have power over you.”
If this is driving you to despair, you can’t “commit suicide” anymore, you have to “die by suicide” as the former is ableist language that trivializes the experiences of people living with mental health conditions!

Edited by georgenorman (30 Jan 2023 8.18pm)

I’m not angry, just constantly amazed that (otherwise intelligent) people like you think the sort of nonsense emanating from Stanford University is of any value, but as George Orwell said: “There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
I also find it amusing that you accuse me of knowing better than everyone else. It’s like being told I have rounded shoulders by the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
It’s not pessimism, as Orwell again said: “We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

Edited by georgenorman (30 Jan 2023 8.19pm)