The 'Fearless Girl' vs 'Charging Bull' Faceoff Is About Far More Than Women In US Boardrooms

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The 'Fearless Girl' vs 'Charging Bull' Faceoff Is About Far More Than Women In US Boardrooms

Oh wait!! The mayor tweeted: "Men who don't like women taking up space are exactly why we need the 'Fearless Girl'. 

That blast surely got the Arturo di Modica's attention, especially with the Charging Bull artist adamant that he is not sexist and neither is his bull. Perhaps for di Modica; nada for the bull. Christina Cauterucci writes for Slate today that until 'A Fearless Girl' faced off against 'Charging Bull', the sculpture was an "encouraging representation of a booming economy. Now, charging toward a tiny human, it’s a stand-in for the gendered forces that work against women’s success in the workplace. "

I'm not one to quote a woman's age, but Cauterucci got her journalism degree in 2013. That makes her about 15 years old in the midst of America's major financial crisis in 2007/2008. It makes her ready to graduate from high school in the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district. 

No symbol of Wall Street was more directly tied to the Occupy Wall Street movement -- so much so that it was protected for well over a year by the NYPD, wrote the New York Times in September 2012.  For those who believe Occupy accomplished nothing in its core arguments, I refer you to the recent Democratic presidential party between Sanders and Clinton -- and the presidential election itself. 

'A Fearless Girl' stands for far more than making more women executives in business.  In the minds of many, 'A Fearless Girl' is a moral symbol of standing up for the little people as America becomes an increasingly story of the very rich and the rest of us. As defined by Princeton University prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University prof Benjamin I Page is no longer a democracy and is increasingly an oligarchy. 

Anne of Carversville has written about 'Charging Bull' for years, and always within the context of raging testosterone untempered by estrogen. 

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Deana Haggag Leads USA's Fight To Protect The Arts Against Trump's Budget Knife

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Deana Haggag Leads USA's Fight To Protect The Arts Against Trump's Budget Knife

Deana Haggag made a strong statement about protecting the arts in America, now under the knife in the Trump administration. The new president and CEO of the philanthropic nonprofit United States Artists until Inauguration day, writes Vogue.com. “It wasn’t lost on me what it means to take on the title of president of an organization whose acronym is USA,” Haggag said recently during an interview in Chicago, her USA home base. 

Less than 100 days later, Haggag is facing Trump's proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Indeed, Big Bird is under the knife. The arts in America represent about $741 million yearly, or less than one tenth of 1 percent of annual federal spending.

The arts generate $135.2 billion annually in a boost to the US economy -- a fact not lost on a growing list of Republicans in Congress, who are against these cuts. 

Male Supreme Court Justices Mansplain Judicial Law To Female Justices, New Study Concludes

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Male Supreme Court Justices Mansplain Judicial Law To Female Justices, New Study Concludes

If you thought America's female supreme court justices are spared the growing epidemic of 'mansplaining', think again. A new study of oral arguments from Northwestern University researchers found that as more women have joined the Supreme Court, "the reaction of the male justices and the male (lawyers) has been to increase their interruptions of the female justices."

Interruptions are often regarded as an assertion of power through verbal dominance, according to the study's authors Tonja Jacobi, a professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and Dylan Schweers, a J.D. candidate at the school. If that's the case, then women in positions of power should be interrupted less. Yet at the pinnacle of legal power, female Supreme Court justices "are just like other women," they write for Scotusblog, "talked over by their male colleagues."

Gal Gadot Auditioned For 'Wonder Woman' Tuned To Beyoncé's 'Girls Rule The World'

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Gal Gadot Auditioned For 'Wonder Woman' Tuned To Beyoncé's 'Girls Rule The World'

Actor Gal Gadot covers the May 2017 cover of W Magazine, lensed by Craig McDean. The 'Wonder Woman' star is styled in Gucci, Prada, Diane von Furstenberg and more by new editor-in-chief of British Vogue Edward Enninful. 

Nadja Auermann Is Lensed By Van Mossevelde + N For Marie Claire France March 2017

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Nadja Auermann Is Lensed By Van Mossevelde + N For Marie Claire France March 2017

Model icon Nadja Auermann is styled by Anne Sophie Thomas in Celine, Dries van Noten, Nina Ricci, Yohji Yamamoto, Stella McCartney and more by Van Mossevelde + N for Marie Claire France March 2017.

 

Alina Asmus Captures 'Medina' For Marie Claire France April 2017

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Alina Asmus Captures 'Medina' For Marie Claire France April 2017

Photographer Alina Asmus and stylist Anne Sophie Thomas team up in a not-boring bag editorial, focusing on the 'Medina' or old Arab quarter for Marie Claire France April 2017./ Hair by Olivier de Vriendt; makeup by Helene Vasnier

Caroline Brasch Nielsen Is 'Lonely As a Cloud' By Alexandra Sophie For Harper's Bazaar UK May 2017

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Model Caroline Brasch Nielsen wanders through England's Wistman's Woods, styled in ethereal, dreamy spring fashions by Charlie Harrington. Alexandra Sophie captures the Danish beauty in 'Lonely As a Cloud' for Harper's Bazaar UK May 2017.

Legend has it that Wistman’s Wood was a sacred grove of the Druids and it was here that they held their pagan rituals. The Druids were the ancient religious leaders, scientists and researchers of the Celtic society. For centuries, there was a common misconception that Druids were only male. However, numerous historical records attest to the fact that there were in fact women among their ranks.  

Tacitus,  a senator and historian of the Roman Empire who dies in 117 AD, mentioned female Druids describing the slaughter of the Druids by Romans on the island of Mona in Wales. Women known as Banduri (female Druids) defended the island and cursed the invaders. Tacitus also observed that there was no distinction between the male and female rulers, and that the female Celts were very powerful.

Elsa Hosk Is Water Baby Lensed By David Roemer For Madame Figaro April 2017

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Elsa Hosk Is Water Baby Lensed By David Roemer For Madame Figaro April 2017

Victoria's Secret Angel Elsa Hosk goes natural, styled in little nothings by Julie Gillet. Photographer David Roemer flashes the Swedish water baby for Madame Figaro April 2017./ Makeup by Georgi Sandev; hair by Maxime Mace

Silja Magg Flashes Ajak, Grace, Jourdana, Lameka & Nykor-Nyakueinyang For Harper's Arabia April 2017

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Silja Maag Flashes Ajak, Grace, Jourdana, Lameka & Nykor-Nyakueinyang For Harper's Arabia April 2017

Models Ajak Deng, Grace Mahary, Jourdana Phillips, Lameka Fox and Nykhor-Nyakueinyang Paul are styled by Katie Trotter in a 'Welcome to the Issue' celebration of the kaleidoscope of color that defines fashion looks for spring/summer 2017. Photographer Silja Magg flashes the beauties for Harper's Bazaar Arabia April 2017.

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Says She's Never Seen Such A Lying White House In Her Long Career

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NBC's Andrea Mitchell Says She's Never Seen Such A Lying White House In Her Long Career

Veteran reporter Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of MSNBC's 'Andrea Mitchell Reports' spares no words in her new interview for The Global Politico weekly podcast on world affairs in the Trump era.

Mitchell has covered every US president since Jimmy Carter and she declares that Trump is the most hostile to the press she's ever seen. Same for telling the truth, says the 70-year-old breast cancer survivor who outpaces reporters half her age. Mitchell is pushing back hard against a White House staff using the briefing room as a daily disinformation machine. Both the president and secretary of state are making every attempt to undermine the ability of reporters to do their job, says Mitchell. 

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Model Dylan Lynch is styled by Justin Lynn in Hamilton Maddox images for Factice Magazine Spring 2017. / Hair by Nancilee Santos; makeup by Katelin Gan