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''New York Magazine'' also reported on a list of “Bloombergisms,” common phrases and quips the mayor used to make. These reportedly included “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s,” and “I know for a fact that any self-respecting woman who walks past a construction site and doesn’t get a whistle will turn around and walk past again and again until she does get one.”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-bloombergs-long-history-of-sexism</ref>
 
''New York Magazine'' also reported on a list of “Bloombergisms,” common phrases and quips the mayor used to make. These reportedly included “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s,” and “I know for a fact that any self-respecting woman who walks past a construction site and doesn’t get a whistle will turn around and walk past again and again until she does get one.”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-bloombergs-long-history-of-sexism</ref>
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===Elitism and transgender toilets===
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===Elitism==
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“As Bloomberg’s New York Prospered, Inequality Flourished Too” (''New York Times'', 11/9/19) is corporate media’s ambivalent way of acknowledging that Bloomberg’s tenure benefited the few at the expense of the many, with the “growth and prosperity” the ''Times'' illustrated with the controversial Atlantic Yards/Barclay Center in Brooklyn accompanied by increases in rents, gentrification and [[homelessness''.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/upshot/bloomberg-new-york-prosperity-inequality.html</ref>
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===Transgender toilets===
 
{{quotebox|We the [[Essay:Liberal Intellectualism|intelligentsia]], people who could make it into this room, we believe in a lot of things. In terms of equality and protecting individual rights that make no sense to the vast bulk of people. They're not opposed to you having some rights, but there's a fundamental disconnect between us believing the rights of the individual come first and the general belief around the world.
 
{{quotebox|We the [[Essay:Liberal Intellectualism|intelligentsia]], people who could make it into this room, we believe in a lot of things. In terms of equality and protecting individual rights that make no sense to the vast bulk of people. They're not opposed to you having some rights, but there's a fundamental disconnect between us believing the rights of the individual come first and the general belief around the world.
 
   
 
   
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