Wodek Szemberg: Has the Left lost its masculine energy?

Article here. Excerpt:

'James Carville, Bill Clinton’s famed pollster and political strategist, did not mince words last month when he, not for the first time, fired off a salvo at the ailing body of the Democratic Party. In an interview with Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post, Carville offered an indictment of “NPR-sounding” “female preachiness”: “We know what’s best for you, don’t eat hamburgers, don’t watch football, don’t drink beer. Guess where our young male number is going? In the toilet, alright? Because Democratic messaging, I’m sorry, is too feminine, it just is.”

Not even a reminder from Capehart to be mindful that we are living in the 21st century made any impression on the Ragin’ Cajun, whose Southern drawl makes speaking and understanding postmodernese too difficult. In national elections, only binary sex matters.

Now that Kamala Harris has been elevated to the position of Democratic Party standard-bearer, the problem with “female preachiness” can only become magnified.

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Janice Fiamengo on Anti-Feminism

Janice discusses her experiences as an anti-feminist in a YouTube video here.

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Good small slide deck on men's issues being prioritized

Please download the 10 images attached hereon and review them. I found these on a men's rights/issues subreddit.

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Why are women so much more liberal than men?

Melanie King asks this age-old question. YouTube video here.

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9 things I'm doing to teach my teenage son about 'toxic masculinity'

Article here. Excerpt:

'2. I don’t allow (or use) disrespectful language - Last month, my son asked me if it was ok to call a woman a bitch, even if it wasn’t to their face. No stars for guessing what my response was. However, the fact he asked suggests he knew it was wrong (he was probably testing boundaries, too), so I calmly explained why it was a degrading term, even as a joke. I’ve also become aware of the language I use about men and myself. A casual ‘dickhead’ remark if a driver cuts me up could be perceived as negative by my son, as can calling myself a ‘stupid cow’ if I’ve dropped the milk. If I’m saying these thing about others and myself, what’s that telling him?
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8. I avoid the term ‘toxic masculinity’ - I found that when I used the term 'toxic masculinity', my son became defensive and rightly so, I referenced it at first, so my son knew what I was talking about, and then moved away from it. Phil agrees, 'Parents need to focus less on masculinity being a problem and more on masculinity being a healthy and natural expression in many boys and young men.'

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Paris 2024: Men's exclusion from artistic swimming raises questions on 'gender-equal Olympics'

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'No men will compete in synchronised swimming at the Olympics, despite Paris 2024 vowing to be the first gender-equal edition in the history of the Games.

The 96 athletes picked by 18 different nations for the Olympics were all women.

In 2022, World Aquatics changed the rules, allowing up to two men to be selected in an eight-athlete synchronised swimming squad.

"World Aquatics is very disappointed that no male artistic swimmers have been selected for Paris 2024" they told Euronews in a statement.

"This should have been a landmark moment for the sport. We understand that it would always be a challenge for men to earn a spot on a team in time for Paris 2024, considering that their eligibility was only confirmed 18 months ago, but we were still hopeful that some would succeed."

Neither World Aquatics nor the International Olympic Committee have a say on the picks, as they are always decided by the individual national federations.'

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UK: Influencers driving extreme misogyny, say police

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'Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth said officers who focused on violence against women and girls were now working with counter-terrorism teams to look at the risk of young men being radicalised.
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Speaking about harmful content online, she said: "We know that some of this is also linked to radicalisation of young people online, we know the influencers, Andrew Tate, the element of influencing of particularly boys, is quite terrifying and that's something that both the leads for counterterrorism in the country and ourselves from a VAWG [violence against women and girls] perspective are discussing."'

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Tackling misogyny in UK schools could take up to 20 years, says Jess Phillips

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'Plans to tackle misogyny in schools could take up to 20 years to have an impact on society, the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, has said as she outlined measures to protect women and girls.

Phillips spoke the day after the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) estimated that 2 million women were victims of violence perpetrated by men each year in an epidemic so serious it amounts to a “national emergency”.

One of Labour’s five missions is to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, by targeting perpetrators and addressing the root causes of abuse and violence.

The minister for violence against women and girls said “Raneem’s law” was already in the works, and would ensure police forces provide protection to victims of domestic abuse. But evidence that some of the government’s policies are working – such as addressing misogyny among schoolchildren – could take years to emerge.'

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Do women make better leaders?

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'The surprising thing is not that a sitting president decided to abandon his reelection campaign. Or that his party’s leading candidate to replace him is a woman.

No, the astonisher is that America has never had a female commander in chief.

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Not Just Dead White Men: Boston’s “Un-Monument” Project Sets Out To Undo Centuries of Bias

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'In an audit of national monuments, the Monument Lab found that most monuments commemorate — surprise! — white men.

Who from history gets cast in bronze — and who doesn’t — reflects a legacy of racism and sexism in America’s public spaces. Now, a project from the city of Boston is taking aim at the landscape of monuments across the city.

It’s called Un-Monument, short for “Un-monument | Re-monument | De-Monument: Transforming Boston.” There’s a playful, experimental spirit to the initiative, which consists of free temporary monuments, partnerships with arts and cultural organizations across the city and free public programming.'

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Michael Kimmel to present ‘Angry White Men’ at Monadnock Summer Lyceum

Article here. Excerpt:

'On Sunday, July 28, at 11 a.m. Michael Kimmel will present “Angry White Men: Masculinity on the Extreme Right” for the Monadnock Summer Lyceum at Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church, 25 Main St.

Kimmel will reference his book “Angry White Men” and other research data to look at anger’s causes and explore more-positive possibilities.

Kimmel earned his BA from Vassar, a Master of Arts from Brown, and his doctorate from UC Berkeley. He taught at Bryant College, UC Berkeley, the State University of New York and Rutgers. He is founder and editor of the academic journal Men and Masculinities and a national spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism.'

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US women’s rights campaigner accused of sexual harassment

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Maryland Commission for Men's Health Report on Domestic Violence (2010)

Article here. Excerpt:

'I wrote this report when I was the vice-chair of the Maryland Commission for Men’s Health 2008-2010. This was one of three reports that The Maryland Department of Health tried to deep six. It took us a year to track down what they had done and the reports finally made their way to the legislators. (The story of this event was a chapter in Janice Fiamengo’s excellent book Sons of Feminism: Men Have Their Say.) They really didn’t want this to get out and they succeeded since it was a year late. It was written with the idea of giving legislators a good sense of the bigoted path the domestic violence industry had taken in Maryland. It continues to be a good summary of how the feminists have built a lethal anti-male industry. It is amazing and shocking how little has changed since that time. Sad too.

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Challenging new Title IX rules, legal group says women in STEM award discriminates against real men

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'On July 10, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) of the Legal Insurrection Foundation filed a civil rights complaint against the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) that alleges that the eligibility criteria of RIT’s Women in STEM Award discriminates against biological males who identify as males.

The Women in STEM Award at RIT is a scholarship valued at $76,000 designed to support outstanding high school students with a demonstrated interest in areas like science, computing, robotics, and math.

However, the award is exclusively open to “outstanding female, female-identifying, or non-binary student[s]” – effectively excluding males who identify as males, according to EPP. The civil rights organization alleges that this exclusion violates Title IX as interpreted by the Biden administration’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and RIT’s nondiscrimination policies.'

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This is the first airline where women can request not to sit next to men

Article here. Gee, is there a version that allows ppl to pick the ethnicity of their seat-mates? Oh, but that'd be racist. This isn't sexist at all! Excerpt:

'But now, one airline is making it easier to calm anxieties when it comes to flying, becoming the first to allow women to request not to be seated next to a man.

A low-cost airline based in India, IndiGo, has announced a pioneering new policy allowing women to view the gender of the passengers sitting around them before booking.

They’ll be able to choose to sit next to a woman if they’d prefer, which they’ll be able to do by viewing the seat plan ahead of flying.

Where women are booked on, their seats will flash pink – yes, somewhat of a cliché but the policy itself is a watershed moment when it comes to passenger safety.
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Critically, men will not be privy to this information when booking, so they won’t be able to use it to deliberately position themselves next to a woman.

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Toxic masculinity? The rise of male influencers and the manosphere

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'UK police chiefs have warned that young men are being radicalised into extreme misogyny online by influencers such as Andrew Tate. Speaking as the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published a report into violence against women and girls, which it is calling a “national emergency’’, senior police officer Maggie Blyth has said that Tate and others like him are radicalising boys into extreme misogyny in a way that is “quite terrifying”.

The report estimates that at least one in every 12 women will be a victim of violence every year: around two million women. Nearly 3,000 crimes of violence against women are recorded each day, though police chiefs are calling it the “tip of the iceberg” because the figures do not include unreported crimes.'

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