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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Men are generally more aggressive--which most women and first nations find intimidating, not to mention offensive. Women, thus, tend to accede to them, rather than challenge them, risking a black eye and being called fowl names. Also, because TV news mainly cover male interests, girls grow up thinking they and their interests are not as important as males and their interests. So feelings of being prejudiced against and a "what's the use?" attitude present serious problems in our supposed democracy.
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Shortlists have been very controversial - not only because of the very obvious sex discrimiantion issue - on top of that you've got the way they've allegedly been misued and the instances where they've been forced upon certain constituencies. The article is quite right to cover such things. Yes, more about their impact should be added but then there's plenty of other content missing too e.g. not a single one of the 2009 shortlists is even mentioned despite all the coverage of them in the media.--
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