Article here. Whole thing is an exercise in nymphotropism. The first hostages to be released should be all civilians regardless of sex, then all soldiers regardless of sex. Instead they prioritize females above all else. Predictable. "Women and children first!" The children I understand. Not the women. Excerpt:

'Israel is preparing to receive on Saturday four female soldiers held hostage by Hamas.

The militant group said Friday that it intends to release Karina Ariev, 20, Daniella Gilboa, 20, Naama Levy, 20, and Liri Albag, 19.

Israeli officials have told the families of the four women that they intend to move forward with the release – despite the fact that Israel had previously expected Arbel Yehud, a female civilian hostage still held in Gaza, to be included in Saturday’s release.

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'Justin Baldoni would seem to be a bogeyman for America’s right wing. He broke out as a heartthrob on the satirical telenovela Jane the Virgin, known for its progressive themes, and then branded himself as one of the country’s foremost male feminists on his Man Enough podcast, the tagline for which was “undefining masculinity.”

But after Blake Lively, who starred opposite him in his directorial hit It Ends with Us, alleged workplace mistreatment including sexual harassment, he’s been unyoked from “woke.” In fact, he’s become an unexpected new conservative cause celebre as a growing contingent of commentators take his side.'

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'As we can see, in the post-Vietnam years, women flooded into the service and took up roles that were traditionally filled by men. They did a pretty good job of it — so much that the military realized non-combat jobs could and should be performed by women.

There were two lessons we learned from Iraq. The first was that when you put women in combat roles, they rose to the task. The second was, why beg straight white men to serve when gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are so willing to?'

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'A recent study published in Sex Roles reveals that “strategic masculine disinvestment,” a process where men intentionally distance themselves from traditional masculine ideals, is linked to poorer psychosocial functioning, including higher levels of distress and anger.

Jessica Pfaffendorf and Terrence Hill examined how changes in masculinity, including the shift away from hegemonic masculinity, marked by traits like stoicism and assertiveness, intersect with broader social changes. As structural support for traditional masculinity erodes, men are increasingly adopting alternative identity strategies.

The researchers analyzed data from the 2021 Crime, Health, and Politics Survey (CHAPS), which included a nationally representative sample of 803 men (ages 18-91) from the United States. To assess strategic masculine disinvestment, participants indicated whether they sometimes acted “less manly” because it helped them get ahead in the world.

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'California State University changed a program that was only open to men of color to now be open to all students, following a complaint filed to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.

"Cal State, like most universities, has very large bureaucracies devoted towards preventing and remedying discrimination," Cornell professor William Jacobson and founder of the Equal Protection Project, told Fox News Digital. "So how is it that the university as a system engages in open discrimination?"

The complaint, filed Nov. 19, 2024, by Jacobson and the Equal Protection Project, claimed that 23 campuses at California State University operated a "Young Males of Color Consortium."'

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'Zuckerberg also reportedly “blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for an inclusivity initiative at Facebook that encouraged employees’ self-expression in the workplace.”

I mean, at one level, it’s actually a perfect example of masculine energy to not own your decisions and instead blame them on a woman who was your subordinate. But it’s a kind of masculine energy — if you want to call it that — that’s pretty damn pathetic.

That’s the other weird thing about all these “manly men” and how they perform masculinity. Not only does it involve a ton of whining and blame-shifting, but it also involves abject levels of, dare I say, emasculating subservience.

All these “manly men” are so eager to submit to the awesome will of Trump while simultaneously bragging about their superhuman feats. Whether it’s all the pushups you can allegedly do, in Hegseth’s case, or claiming you are one of the best video gamers in the universe, as Elon Musk has recently done.'

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'A Pennsylvania woman said she falsely accused an innocent man she never met of trying to rape and kidnap her all because he looked 'creepy'.

Anjela Borisova Urumova, 20, pleaded guilty on Thursday to filing a false police report against 41-year-old Daniel Pierson, whom she accused of attempting to kidnap and rape her.

Pierson was held on a $1 million bail, charged with multiple felonies and spent a month in jail as a result of the false claims.'

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'The term ‘misandry‘ has been increasingly mentioned in recent weeks. While the term has been deeply embedded in the manosphere’s vocabulary for long, following the Atul Subhash suicide, it has gained renewed traction. It has since spilt outside of MRA/manosphere circles, with many claiming that women, society, and institutions exhibit misandrist tendencies and systematically favour women and disfavour men.

The manosphere’s use of the term, or its insistence that it’s the inverse of misogyny and is just as, if not more, prevalent, isn’t new. The dominant narrative within the Indian manosphere seems to be that men face systemic persecution at the hands of women and in a system that is created for their sole benefit. What’s troubling, however, is the use and acceptance of the term outside of the manosphere and how it has penetrated common parlance as the opposite of misogyny.'

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'Last year marked the first time in several years that the Army achieved its ambitious recruiting goals -- primarily due to an increase in female recruits, according to internal service data reviewed by Military.com.

Nearly 10,000 women signed up for active duty in 2024, an 18% jump from the previous year, while male recruitment increased by just 8%, the data shows. The hike comes as the service continues to struggle with recruiting men, who have traditionally filled the bulk of its ranks but have become more of a challenge to enlist in recent years.

The numbers mark the continuation of a trend reported in a Military.com investigation that found a yearslong Army recruiting slump was centered around men, while female recruiting numbers have remained relatively strong. They also point to young women as an increasingly vital recruiting pool, especially as young men are struggling to meet the Army's eligibility requirements.'

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'The household gender divide is as old as time. Studies show that even in progressive (heterosexual) households, women tend to do more of the housework than men. Is there any hope of change?

Men "seem to think" they are doing their fair share of the chores, said The Washington Post. A YouGov survey revealed that 81% of men living with partners "responded with confidence" that they were pulling their weight around the house. But statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics tell a somewhat different story: Women "cooked, cleaned and did yard work" for nearly two hours a day, according to the study. Their male partners did only half that amount. But that is more housework than men used to do — and the increased chore time is coming largely in the form of meal preparation. "Men are gaining," said the Post.

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'Revenue sharing in college athletics is slated to begin next season, starting on July 1 (if the proposal is finalized in April, as expected), but a potential wrench has been thrown into the plans of programs across the country.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights put out a memo Thursday regarding Title IX and NIL, answering questions surrounding revenue sharing and Title IX.

As shared by Pete Nakos of On3, future revenue-sharing distributions from a school to its players for NIL rights are considered financial assistance, and if not divided proportionally among men and women athletes, schools would risk Title IX violations.

Nakos further reported that most programs were planning a distribution split that would have given 75% of revenue sharing to football, 15% to men’s basketball, 5% to women’s basketball and 5% to the remaining athletes. That, obviously, would not be Title IX compliant.'

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'Mark Lemley, the William H. Neukom professor of law at Stanford Law and director of its Program in Law, Science and Technology, said in his social media post he has “struggled with how to respond to [CEO] Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness.”

Lemley, a partner at Lex Lumina who was representing Meta in a copyright dispute in the Northern District of California, said he fired the company as a client. The case, Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, involves allegations that Meta trained its artificial intelligence product using the copyrighted works of several authors.'

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'What is evident from the violence that has taken hold in TT is parents afraid of their children, and a society living in fear. Barricaded in their homes behind burglar bars and security cameras, fearful of speaking up. Not helped by the fact a solution is yet to be found to stem the escalating violence. Not that there is a straightforward one.

The fact, however, is that violence, abuse and killing of women, children and crime overall are perpetrated predominantly by males.
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That said, males need to help themselves by recognising and willingly admitting they have a problem, a desire to initiate change and sufficient discipline to maintain that change. To self-reflect (not a masculine thing to do) or seek professional help. It is, of course, easier said than done.'

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'A Pennsylvania woman is behind bars after allegedly serving two young boys alcohol and attempting to sexually assault them.

Rochelle Stewart, 64, was charged with six misdemeanors — one count of indecent assault, one count of making a false police report, and two counts each of giving minors alcohol and corruption of minors.

Pittsburgh police said on Jan. 8 two boys, ages 12 and 13, offered to shovel snow in front of the home of Stewart's home, Law&Crime reported. According to a criminal complaint Stewart agreed to pay the boys $5 to shovel her walkway.'

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'A Middle Township Elementary School teacher in South Jersey is facing charges after she allegedly had a child with a student she's accused of sexually assaulting inside her home several years ago.

Laura Caron, 34, of Cape May Court House, was arrested on Wednesday on charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.

The alleged crimes happened between 2016 and 2020 at the suspect's home in Cape May Court House.

Authorities say the victim was 13 years old and living with then-28-year-old Caron when their child was born in 2019.'