The Gen Z gender pay gap has reversed with young women earning more than young men – so what’s up with boys?

Article here. Excerpt:

'Streeting was speaking at the launch of The Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys (CPRMB), a new organisation that seeks to produce actionable policies to tackle a decline in men’s health, employability and life expectancy that has crept up on the political class. Brooks – their policy adviser and a lifetime campaigner in the field of men’s health – has overseen the release of the CPRMB’s first report. Missing Men outlines the challenges facing men and boys, and comes hot on the heels of another report by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) – Lost Boys – which paints an equally stark picture of male outcomes.

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‘Female narcissism is often misdiagnosed’: how science is finding women can have a dark streak too

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'Scientists long assumed that women were simply too wonderful to be significantly psychopathic or narcissistic, and didn’t bother to study the possibility much, according to Ava Green from City St George’s, University of London. But research over the past few decades is increasingly challenging this stereotype, suggesting women can have a dark streak, too. Much like in autism or ADHD, such traits just express themselves slightly differently in women – making them harder to spot with diagnostic tests that were essentially developed for men.

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For tech's new generation, college is an expensive waste

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'...Today, a perfect storm of economic, political, and technological forces is driving young people — mostly men, as every noncollege techie I interviewed happened to be — to circumvent college entirely. For one, higher education has grown prohibitively expensive: In 2024, the average federal student loan debt was just under $30,000 for those who completed a bachelor's degree, and all-in costs for some four-year degrees have now surpassed half a million dollars....
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San Antonio Woman Arrested for Drugging, Then Raping a 16-Year-Old Boy Saying She 'Wanted to Do This for a Long Time'

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'Rump then pushed them on the bed and took off his clothes. She then allegedly had sexual intercourse with the boy, stating that she "wanted to do this for a long time."

She then told the boy that if he told anyone what happened she was going to say he raped her.The boy told police that he didn't say anything to anyone until another adult found out Rump had sex with him after Rump confessed to it at a beach, according to the affidavit.'

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How Trans Men Expose Female Privilege

Video here. The narrator tells quite a story. She also has a vid saying how dating women helped her understand men, here. Nice to see this kind of thing though it's rare indeed.

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Israel Is Putting More Women on the Front Line to Help Fix Its Manpower Problem

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'Days ago, an Israeli search-and-rescue team in Gaza spent hours drilling through concrete and plying aside rebar to recover the body of a fallen soldier buried under rubble in Khan Younis.

The combat unit had been following a commando brigade in Gaza, recovering the bodies of dead soldiers on the battlefield. It is a routine task in the Israeli military, but it was unique that this team was made up mostly of women.

“A year and a half ago, I would never have dreamed of leading a combat team within Lebanon or Gaza,” said a petite 25-year-old major. “I think the war proved to all of us how much we are capable of.”

She is among a growing number of women serving on the front lines of Israel’s military. Before the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack that spurred the war, women were trained for combat, but left mostly to guard within Israel’s borders or run checkpoints in the West Bank, considered less dangerous tasks.'

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Norway outlaws sex without consent as Europe strengthens rape laws

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'Norway strengthened its rape laws on Friday by criminalising sex without explicit consent, joining a growing list of countries to widen the definition of sexual attacks.

Up to now, prosecutors have had to show that an attacker used violence or threatening behaviour, or had sexual intercourse with someone who was unable to resist, to secure a conviction for rape.'

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End NICU circumcision petition

NICU circumcisions put baby boys at increased risk, which is what happed to baby Cole. Please sign this petition to stop this horrible excuse for healthcare.

END NICU CIRCUMCISION PETITION

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The Quest to Bring Young Men Back to the Democrats

Article here. Wow, they're not even close! Excerpt:

'Those losses have precipitated soul-searching on the left, as Democrats wonder how to revive their appeal to young men who are struggling financially but intrigued by the machismo promoted by Trump and media figures popular on the right. Republicans are “exploiting grievances” by connecting economic pressures to shifts in gender norms, said Shaunna Thomas, the co-founder and former executive director of the gender justice organization UltraViolet.

Democrats know they need to bring young men back into the fold. But it’s a delicate dance: On the one hand, the wrong kind of outreach risks coming across as condescending, but on the other hand, too much focus on the needs of young men might end up alienating the women who have traditionally formed the core of the Democratic base.'

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Man up and take it: Gender bias in moral typecasting

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'Informed by moral typecasting theory, we predicted a gender bias in harm evaluation, such that women are more easily categorized as victims and men as perpetrators. Study 1 participants assumed a harmed target was female (versus male), but especially when labeled ‘victim’. Study 2 participants perceived animated shapes perpetuating harm as male and victimized shapes as female. Study 3 participants assumed a female employee claiming harassment was more of a victim than a male employee making identical claims. Female victims were expected to experience more pain from an ambiguous joke and male perpetrators were prescribed harsher punishments (Study 4). Managers were perceived as less moral when firing female (versus male) employees (Study 5). The possibility of gender discrimination intensified the cognitive link between women and victimhood (Study 6). Across six studies in four countries (N = 3,137), harm evaluations were systematically swayed by targets’ gender, suggesting a gender bias in moral typecasting.'

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Debunking the UN's Attack on the Manosphere

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'There is a growing wave of attacks against what’s being called the “manosphere.” These attacks are coming primarily from feminist organizations and media allies who claim that the manosphere (the electronic patriarchy) is filled with misogynists who hate women and promote violence.

The truth, however, is quite different. What they’re labeling the "manosphere" is, in many cases, a loose network of voices pushing back against decades of feminist misinformation. That pushback — often grounded in research data, lived experience, and reasoned critique — is what truly alarms feminist ideologues.

To them, this movement represents a threat. It challenges their long-standing narrative by exposing its flaws, hypocrisies, and one-sided portrayals of gender dynamics.'

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The Case Against Circumcision

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'What does it mean that no other animal on earth does such a thing to its own genitalia? And not because other species care about cruelty, much less consent. They don’t do it because it’s batshit crazy to disfigure yourself and others of your kind. Nature does foreskins for biological reasons, not to swap for a nod from a god.

What does it mean that Egyptian artworks from thousands and thousands of years ago feature circumcised dicks? Mummies, too. Historians think it was a sign of elite status, royal or religious, in the Upper Paleolithic era, and from there back the historical trail vanishes; no one’s sure exactly where or when circumcision became established first in the Near East and Africa. Historical and anthropological speculation suggests that it arose in more than one region, both as a mark of full manhood and to punish prisoners of war and slaves; castration tended to kill off the supply.'

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The plow horse: How marriage uses men

Video here. He goes into the not-so-pretty realities around being a married man.

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Support For University Professor Being Investigated For Controversial Domestic Violence Take

Article here. Excerpt:

'Will she or won’t she? Questions are swirling around whether a professor in Australia will get canned for her comments about domestic violence or not.

Dr. Fiona Girkin is an associate lecturer in Policing and Emergency Management at the University of Tasmania. Her job is to teach new Tasmania Police recruits about family and domestic violence.

Recently, she appeared in a video interview with controversial conservative media figure, Bettina Arndt. In the interview, Girkin talked about how, in listening to the officers she has worked with, there were just as many female offenders in domestic violence cases as there were male.'

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Pearl asks "What's In It For Men?"

Video here. Pearl asks, "What's in it for men?" This is regarding the recent push by the Democrat party to appeal to young men.

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