Name: 【TED】Sandi Toksvig: A political party for women's equality (A political party for women's equality | Sandi Toksvig)
Uploaded: 2017-09-04T21:19:36.000Z
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Everything in America is so much bigger than in Europe.

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And TED Talks -- TED Talks are where everybody has great ideas.

So the question is: Where do those great ideas come from?

but it's generally reckoned that the average person --

until you realize that 95 percent of them

are the same ones you had the day before.

That leaves us with just a five percent window of opportunity each day

The other day I was watching some sports on television,

and I was trying to decide why I just don't engage with it.

Do you think it would be worth being that flexible

just to be able to see your heel at that angle?

I'm never going to be able to relate to that,

because I'm never going to be able to do it, OK?

The truth is I have never been any good at sport, OK?

I've reached that wonderful age when all my friends say,

"Oh, I wish I was as fit as I was when I was 18."

I couldn't run then. I'm certainly not going to do it now.

is the Olympics for people with zero athletic ability.

Obviously no drugs; no corruption, no skills.

And I also know why I don't engage with sport when I watch it on television.

It's because probably 97 percent of it is about men running

men trying to look neatly packaged in Lycra.

There is so little female sport on television,

that a young woman watching might be forgiven for thinking,

that the male member is the very lever you need

to get yourself off the couch and onto a sports ground.

The inequalities in sport are breathtaking.

and immediately I come back to an old one.

nor has there ever been in the whole of history,

a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

it hasn't happened in the whole of evolution.

It's a wonder men have been able to evolve quite so brilliantly.

It bugs me, and I know I should do something about it.

I've got three kids, I've got an elderly mom.

is because TED Talks said I could have 15 minutes to myself,

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【TED】Sandi Toksvig: A political party for women's equality (A political party for women's equality | Sandi Toksvig)

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