Here's a couple we can all do - changing the way we use language:
Disposable income should be re-termed savable income to promote saving rather than spending.
Don’t ask people ‘so, what do you do?’
but perhaps ‘what are you interested in?’
or ‘what did you learn today?’
or ‘what do you want to learn today?’
or better yet ‘who are you becoming?’
This would help move us away from being such a work or task-based society, to being people or learning focused.
Make a movie with a plot similar to that of Erin brokovich but with the gender roles reversed. A movie about a man who:
Lost his wife and has to raise four kids
Inherited millions from his deeased parents lost them and had no skills of his own.
Grew up working for his dad in a small shop, dad passed away aged 18 and then a new local supermarket forces the small shop to close.
How did Erin Brokovich start? Is there any explanation for how she ended up alone with 3 or 4 kids? Why did she need the job at Masreys?
Is it a true story? It strikes me that a similar story about a man in that position would be viewed very differently and this could provoke some interesting questions about the way we value and perceive gender differences.
Or Make a movie about a sexually irresistible man.
Both ideas are designed to challenge our notions and assumptions of gender and the differences between what is and is not acceptable for men and women.
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