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White Privilege – WTF? For some reason this keeps cropping up and people keep rising to it like it’s the latest thing to hold onto. A government minister, no less, recently instructed schools not to teach is as being ‘fact’ but as a talking point, as purely a consideration. Look, white people, out and about, where ever, it doesn’t matter, can and sometimes do get preferred treatment over non white people. This is a truth but it is also a non changeable reality. It is a fact of life. Let me give some other examples, many gay men, in particular, in many public places outside of the huge cities, cannot walk hand in hand with their partner, it’s just not safe. Is that ‘straight’ privilege? Many disabled people who look disabled (stuff off with the politically correct term argument), they are going to experience ‘able bodied privilege). White guy walks into a bar in a majority black neighbourhood, likely he will be victim of black privile...

Over the years I have noticed that some music in my life has developed a trigger for memory. Occasionally I’d hear one and I’d be straight back there remembering the past. Here is a selection of 50+ I have put together though there are many more I can think of Fantasmic! from DIsneyland and Walt Disney World This one is very simple, it reminds me of my DIsney trips and one of the most impressive shows I have seen Flying There from ET This is the movie I think I watched more than any other. It was the first movie to hold the title for the one which got me emotional with and, it was the first movie that I made out with Crossing the Marigold Bridge from ‘Coco’ This should be ‘Remember me’ but I still cannot listen to that without tears in my eyes. The movie reminds me of all those I have lost over the years Hogwarts Forever! Obviously the movie but also the great time I spent with Robin at Universal Studios Florida and the hysterics of Robin squeezing in...

Equality is not equality when one side feels they have to put down the other in the process. I’ll give two examples, though there are many, where women feel the need to exclude men, who suffer equally on an individual basis, in order to bring attention to their own suffering. Abuse Breast Cancer Both men and women are victims of physical, emotional and sexual abuse which includes rape and murder. 1 in 3 victims of abuse is male. Men are raped, murdered for their sexuality, attacked at home and work and for every male abused, it’s just as serious as when it is a women except men have the added stigma of men supposedly  being too strong to be abused. Men can also get breast cancer. The disease doesn’t discriminate so, why do women sufferers?  1% of all cases are men and for each one of those men, it’s equally as devastating as for women, perhaps more so as it is universally accepted as a women only disease. Many women are surprised to discover men in a breast cance...