Comedian Bill Burr popped up on my Facebook feed with this. He hits the nail on the head about things like alimony. You'll probably need to have a Facebook account to access.

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'Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other DHS officials lashed out at critics of female Secret Service agents who have slammed the agency in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

In a Saturday afternoon statement attributed to Mayorkas and 10 others – including Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle – DHS lashed out at criticism of women in policing.'

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'All of these narratives are an effort to get you to look away. We knew who the perpetrator was before knowing who he was: a lonely young man with access to weapons of war trying to recapture social status with a (perceived) heroic act of violence.
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I’ve written and spoken a lot about the obstacles — financial, educational, social, sexual, spiritual — facing young men today, so I won’t relitigate my case. If you’re interested, read more here or here or check out my TED talk.

The CliffsNotes: Over the past generation there’s been a deliberate transfer of wealth from the young to the old. Among other things, the result is unaffordable and indefensible costs for education and housing. Things are especially bad for boys and young men.'

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'Without direction from the federal government, athletic departments will have to decide how to allocate the new revenue share money between men and women. Administrators will have to choose between paying a higher portion to men, risking potential lawsuits, or equally sharing revenue with men and women, risking falling behind competitors in football recruiting.
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When it comes to revenue share dollars provided directly by the schools, athletic department officials have told ESPN they don't know whether they must give a proportionally equal amount of money to men and women or if equitable treatment means that they can allocate the roughly $20 million based on each athlete's value in the NIL market.

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'The State of Menopause 2024 report found that a significant portion of women are advocating for better workplace accommodations to manage menopause.

Out of the over 2,000 women experiencing pre-menopause or menopause symptoms and aged 40 to 64 surveyed, 51% want more workplace support for menopause, yet 76% have no accommodations.

The report suggest potential workplace support could include increased time off, more flexible schedules and fostering an empathetic environment. Some changes such as allowing for breaks when needed and providing access to resources, could make a difference in the lives of menopausal women.'

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'Toxic masculinity refers to a type of hyper-masculinity that causes aggression, self-importance, dominance, and lack of consideration for others’ feelings and needs.1 The term originated in the late 20th century and is now associated with extreme misogyny and anti-feminist rhetoric.

It’s thought that toxic masculinity gets instilled in people assigned male at birth because of how they are raised and by the messages society sends them about what it means to be a successful or powerful male.

The effects of toxic masculinity are far-reaching and can include aggression, emotional dysregulation, violence toward marginalized people, and the upholding of harmful gender norms.'

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'The Israeli military announced Tuesday it will begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men on Sunday.

That follows a landmark Supreme Court order for young religious men to begin enlisting for military services. Under long-standing political arrangements, ultra-Orthodox men had been exempt from the draft, which is compulsory for most Jewish men.

The system created widespread resentment among the general public in Israel, especially after more than nine months of war against Hamas militants in Gaza. The court ruled that the system of exemptions was discriminatory.'

Video here. BlueOrange22 asks why men are still being discriminated against and not seeming to care.

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'It was seven weeks after Pvt. Ivan Pidmalivskiy had been due back on the front line with Russia when rescuers pulled his lifeless body from a river on Ukraine’s western edge.

His death added to a toll of more than two dozen other men who have drowned in the River Tysa since Russia invaded, many of them fugitives from a military draft aimed at sustaining Ukraine’s war effort. Pidmalivskiy was different: He had fought for two years after returning to Ukraine from abroad to defend his country.

His family had seen the war take a growing toll on the burly 32-year-old, but he never revealed the depths of his exhaustion to them. “What was happening inside his soul, I don’t know,” said his mother, Liubov Pidmalivska.'

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'A conservative group on Tuesday sued Northwestern University, claiming its law school discriminates against white men in faculty hiring and in the selection of articles that appear in its flagship law review.

The suit filed by an organization called Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP), also names several Northwestern faculty and students as defendants. FASORP is represented by prominent conservative attorney Jonathan Mitchell and by America First Legal, which is headed by former Donald Trump adviser Steven Miller.

The law school “refuses to even consider hiring white male faculty candidates with stellar credentials, while it eagerly hires candidates with mediocre and undistinguished records who check the proper diversity boxes,” according to the complaint.

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'A lawsuit alleging the Chicago Fire Department used unnecessary physical tests to continue a “stubborn and purposeful” effort to block women from becoming paramedics could soon end in a $11.25 million settlement.

The city’s Law Department recommended the eight-figure deal, set to face two final votes by aldermen next week. The tests were “ill-matched” to actual paramedic work and failed 21% of the women who took them, but just 0.5% of male paramedic candidates, according to the 2016 lawsuit filed by 12 women blocked from the jobs.

“This testing has no legally defensible justification and eliminates a significant number of women, but virtually no men,” the lawsuit said. “Its discriminatory effect has not been accidental.”'

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'Prince William could be risking a potential sexism storm if he attends an important men's soccer final in Germany on Sunday, after the royal was absent from a high-profile women's game in 2023.
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William's attendance at the final hasn't yet been confirmed by Kensington Palace, but if he were to take his place in the Olympiastadion in Berlin for the game it would likely spark backlash after he earned criticism in 2023 for not traveling to Australia when the England women's team secured their place in the FIFA Women's World Cup final (also against Spain). The team lost that game 1-0.'

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'Are today’s young people more sexist? Are we on the brink of, or already experiencing, a backlash against feminist values? Can men’s problems be reduced to a crisis of masculinity? Many social scientists agree that an increasing number of young men are mired in discomfort, in a crisis that challenges their identity, self-esteem and the value of their interpersonal relationships.

Equality between the sexes is a historical novelty. The narrative about female oppression and gender inequality often looks to the past. Simone de Beauvoir wrote in The Second Sex, published in 1949, "Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine support — all these encourage women to ardently want to please men. They are on the whole still in a state of serfdom. It follows that woman knows and chooses herself not as she exists for herself but as man defines her."'

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'Around the world, from the United States to China to the U.K. to Germany to Tunisia, in chat rooms and in the streets, the gender divide is widening as Gen Zers split along political lines: Young women are increasingly swinging to the left, while young men are moving to the right — negating conventional wisdom that young people as a whole are more progressive than the generation before them. “Gen Z,” observed data journalist John Burn-Murdoch, who tracked this trend for the Financial Times, “is two generations, not one.”

The United States in particular saw this growing partisan gender split during the 2022 midterms, when far more women voters between the ages of 18 and 29 stood beside Democratic candidates than their male counterparts.

But nowhere is this divide more evident than it is in Korea, where the ideological gap between young men and women is growing wider than anywhere else — altering the country’s politics and fully taking over Korean society.'

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'New Jersey communities have been reacting to back-to-back arrests of two female teachers in Monmouth County, accused of sexual encounters with students.

Julie Rizzitello submitted her resignation to the Wall Township school district, days before being arrested on Wednesday, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond Santiago announced.

The 36-year-old high school English teacher, who lives in Brick, was charged with sexual assault and other counts.'