Costco Faces Possible MAGA Boycott for Not Favoring WHACCHUMs

Costco's board of directors rejected requests to remove its DEI program, which shareholders described as "illegal discrimination," prompting backlash from members of the MAGA movement.

The board of Costco said, "Our efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion follow our code of ethics."

The defense was met with anger from many Trump supporters, with some calling for a boycott on social media.

These MAGA types want to return to the 1950's when hierarchies were stronger, and white heterosexual able-bodied cis-gender Christian hierarchy-building US-born males enjoyed the privilege that their hierarchies granted them over everyone else.

https://www.newsweek.com/costco-faces-maga-boycott-2007942?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1tRfLW2GY14NW1DpEYC3zD3EzyPNFKR-mvrDJ6qduqiQSTLsAZpx7wnns_aem_W7JDvWYcxtTpk-NrBiCzyg

Netflix Scores in Women's Soccer

Netflix has obtained exclusive US rights to the next two FIFA Women’s World Cups. In 2027 and 2031the tournament will appear for the first time on a streaming service. The 2027 tourney, which runs from June 24 to July 25, featuring 32 teams from across the globe, will compete in 12 cities throughout Brazil.

In addition to the matches, coverage will be supplemented with commentary and entertainment, including lead-ins spotlighting top players, how they got where they are, and information about the sport in general.

It is fabulous to see more interest from the media in women's sports. Nice they are catching up with what many of us for decades have known to be very exciting to watch. 

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/womens-world-cup-netflix

No Surprise Who Leads in Top Countries For Women's Rights and Gender Equality

Iceland tops the list of countries where women have the right to flourish and men and women live in the most equitable environment. 

Next comes Denmark, then Norway, followed by Finland and Sweden. 

Scandinavia is looking pretty good.

The United States did not fare too well. Might be interesting to see where it ranks after Trump and his minions have four years of putting in tremendous efforts into building the country's hierarchies back to where they have been years ago.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenpeddicord/2024/11/12/top-12-countries-for-womens-rights-and-gender-equality/

There Should Be No Ranking Among Hierarchies

Justice Mordy Bromberg, the President of the Australian Law Reform Commission, delivered the 2024 Higinbotham Lecture.

Bromberg emphasized the enduring equality of human rights, despite what sometimes seems to be a conflict between different human rights.

“All human rights are equal,” he said. “There is no hierarchy. There is no ranking.”

“One human right does not overrule another when they seemingly intersect. That is because all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.”

In other words, a hierarchy of hierarchy should be abolished, and particularly on an individual basis, no one hierarchy corners the market on how hierarchies can negatively affect people. 

https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2024/oct/higinbotham-lecture

Taliban Bans Medical Education for Women

The Taliban in Afghanistan closed one of the last remaining loopholes in their ban on education for older girls and women by forbidding them from attending institutions offering medical education.

The Taliban have also banned women in some provinces from being treated by male medical professionals,  which means that this new decree, halting the training of new female healthcare workers, will result in unnecessary pain, misery, sickness, and death for the women forced to go without health care, as there won’t be female healthcare workers to treat them.

Men are really going nuts when they have total control over women who have no say in their lives. Should we suppose there are many men in the United States who feel the same way, and with Trump again in power, will feel empowered to exert their strength? Hierarchy gone wild. 

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/03/afghanistans-taliban-ban-medical-training-women

Derogatory Term for Native Women to be Removed in California

The derogatory term "squaw" will be removed from over 30 geographic features in California by 2025, according to an announcement yesterday by the state's natural resources agency.

This derogatory term that has been used to describe Native American women will be removed from streets, buildings, cemeteries, and even a forest fire fuel break, according to the California Natural Resources Agency. 

In the past two years, the word has been removed from geographic locations and features on federal lands across the country. In 2022, the Interior Department announced plans to remove the term from more than 660 geographic features and sought public comment on name replacements.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/16/nx-s1-5193831/derogatory-native-indigenous-women-removed-california

Trump is President, the Death Struggle of Hierarchies is Fierce

Now that it has sunk into all of us that Donald Trump will be president for the next four years, we know that the death struggle of hierarchies is upon us as strong as ever. 

The death struggle hopefully will mean that the strength of hierarchies, now greatly manifested in the MAGA movement, will eventually wobble on the edge of the see saw, and will eventually fall off. 

Trump and the MAGA movement are not great at playing the role of the top of the hierarchy. They do not really send crumbs down to lower groups, even though they promise to do so. They lie, cheat, manipulate, and steal more than is typical of control tactics of the top when the top is successful at keeping the hierarchy strong. They play their hand way more than usual, as seen in Trump's cabinet appointments.

Time will tell if they take the country and the rest of us down with them. But we think they won't. There is too much bulk and too much history of working for equality for these radical hierarchy supporters in MAGA to easily prevail.

It is time to shift to using a frame of hierarchies, instead of individual issues, to unite us like never before.