This Guardian piece was published a week before Trump was elected:

[Valerie] Aurora is a feminist activist and founder of Frame Shift Consulting, a tech diversity and inclusion firm. She has come to the company to run a three-hour training session for a group of men and women, teaching them how to use their societal privilege – whether male, white, straight or able-bodied – to benefit people who do less well in Silicon Valley.

Her workshop, a version of which has already been adopted by Google, isn’t aimed at the Donald Trumps of the world, says Aurora. The attitudes of the Republican nominee have sparked a national conversation about sexual harassment and sexism in America. Instead, what Aurora calls “ally skills training” is meant to teach people who both understand there is a problem and want to help fix it by taking practical action – including teaching men how to step in when they see other men engaging in casual sexism.

I think the stories of the last week of Trump supporters exhibiting misogynistic behavior suggests this should definitely be “aimed at the Donald Trumps of the world”.

And I agree with her stance on who needs to change their behavior to change sexist behavior:

Aurora sees Silicon Valley’s most prominent efforts to increase diversity as backwards. Encouraging women to give the industry a try and exhortations to “Lean In” – a motto and accompanying book by Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg – wrongly puts the onus on those who are marginalized to change their own behavior, she believes.

Instead, her “ally skills” training asks those with the privilege to change theirs. Protected by that privilege, as well as generally having more power and influence, they can speak up and are in a better position to take the heat. “It is the exact opposite of Lean In,” says Aurora. “Everything has been framed in terms of ‘what can women do to overturn sexism’. I have reframed it as ‘what can men do to stop sexism, because it is their responsibility’.”

Absolutely. The problem with sexism isn’t something fixed by women, it’s fixed by men. We’re the ones who are sexist. We’re the ones currently in positions of power. If we truly want equality, we have to be willing to give up some of that power.

Huffington Post:

If the thought of President Trump in the Oval Office has you contemplating a move to Canada, think again. There are other, more healthful things for you to do than give up.
Here are a few positive things you can do right now:

Great list of organizations. I plan on donating to a few of these.

This is a hell of a lede from David Remnick for The New Yorker:

The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy. On January 20, 2017, we will bid farewell to the first African-American President—a man of integrity, dignity, and generous spirit—and witness the inauguration of a con who did little to spurn endorsement by forces of xenophobia and white supremacy. It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety.

It gets stronger from there.

I’m thinking Donald Trump may want to catch up on his School House Rock ahead of his inauguration.

See also: The Preamble, Electoral College and I’m Just a Bill.

Fuck.

The sandwich, also called a chop cheese — ground beef with onions, topped by melted cheese and served with lettuce, tomatoes and condiments on a hero roll — has long been a staple of bodegas in Harlem and the Bronx. Now, it has started migrating from grill tops to restaurant menus, from the lyrics of rappers onto the pages of food blogs.

Sounds tasty (though I could do without the cheese).

I lived in New York for nearly twenty years until the late ’90s, and this is the first I’m hearing about it. Of course, I rarely made it further north than 96th street.

That’s like another country.

Oregon Trail-inspired video game from New York Times Interactive. Fun—and frustrating—look at the difficulties the GOP and their supporters are causing voters.

(I think I was too old to play Oregon Trail when it was popular in the mid-’80s, but I recognize the graphics and menu styles.)

David Frum, writing for The Atlantic:

This November, however, I am voting not to advance my wish-list on taxes, entitlements, regulation, and judicial appointments. I am voting to defend Americans’ profoundest shared commitment: a commitment to norms and rules that today protect my rights under a president I don’t favor, and that will tomorrow do the same service for you.

Vote the wrong way in November, and those norms and rules will shudder and shake in a way unequaled since the Union won the Civil War.

Tuesday’s vote is not one between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. It’s between an America where The Great Experiment has a chance to continue, and one where our basest instincts threaten to overwhelm and doom the republic.

Slate: 

For purposes of comparison, we present these complete accountings of the candidates’ offenses and misdemeanors. Weigh them according to your personal moral compass, then print them out and take them to the polls to help you decide. Good luck.

Well researched.

The Daily Beast on director Scott Derrickson’s casting of Tilda Swinton:

In order to avoid one offensive stereotype, Derrickson and Co. effectively erased The Ancient One’s Asianness. Along with it disappeared any discernable debt the character might have represented to the place and people and culture the film’s setting, costumes, and multicultural spiritual mishmash still borrows. In trying to be one kind of woke, Doctor Strange became most unfortunately unwoke […].

Derrickson describes the offensive stereotypes as

“[…] 1960s versions of what Western white people thought Asians were like,” he said. “We weren’t going to have the Ancient One as the Fu Manchu magical Asian on the hill being the mentor to the white hero. I knew that we had a long way to go to get away from that stereotype and cliché.”

And after changing the character’s gender:

“[…] when I envisioned that character being played by an Asian actress, it was a straight-up Dragon Lady.”

“I know the history of cinema and the portrayal of the Dragon Lady in Anna May Wong films, and the continued stereotype throughout film history and even more in television,” he continued. “I just didn’t feel like there was any way to get around that because the Dragon Lady, by definition, is a domineering, powerful, secretive, mysterious, Asian woman of age with duplicitous motives—and I just described Tilda’s character. I really felt like I was going to be contributing to a bad stereotype.”

He admits

“Diversity is the responsibility of directors, and I took that as seriously as I could,” he said. “Whitewashing, if you use the term the way it’s used now—it’s what I did with the role. But it also implies racial insensitivity and it implies racist motives and I don’t think I had either. I was really acting out of what I still feel is the best possible choice. But it’s like I chose the lesser evil—and just because you choose the lesser evil it doesn’t mean you’re not choosing an evil.”

I’m not sold that he couldn’t have kept the character true to its original ethnicity by casting an Asian woman, while still updating for modern sensibilities, but bravo to Derrickson for trying to be sensitive to stereotypes.

(The trailers looks great, by-the-way.)