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'The American Psychological Association has, in its words, issued "its first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys." These guidelines "draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage."

Three observations:

1) The last thing American males need today is less masculinity.

If you need proof, ask women who are looking for a husband whether the men they date exhibit too much masculinity, too little masculinity or just the right amount. I have talked to hundreds of women on my radio show (every week I have a "Male/Female Hour"), at speeches and in private who are dating to find a spouse. Not one has said men today are too masculine. Virtually all of them have said men today lack masculinity.

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'Some students of human nature believe that, because our ancestors could only survive as a species human through a constant awareness of danger, we are endowed with an inherent need to be in a “state of fear” about something or other, even if the objective danger is neither existential nor widespread. It’s certainly true that political movements often encourage a state of fear to enhance their image of indispensability.

Feminism is the reigning orthodoxy of our era, and for feminists, men (almost invariably white heterosexual men) are a favourite target for fear mongering.  Short film/ads make excellent promotional vehicles for ideas and attitudes. I wrote about the now-infamous, feminism-inspired Gillette short film in these pages last week, a semi-humorous riff on the corporate cynicism behind its conception. But I knew my off-the-cuff riposte had not really addressed my deeper concerns about it, so the film continued to nag at me.'

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'University of Texas at Austin student Sanika Nayak argued that men make gym facilities uncomfortable for women. As a result of this predicament, Nayak proposes that the University of Texas should divide the gym into protected sections, so that female students can feel more comfortable when they are exercising.

"The gym is always so crowded, and there’s always more guys there, especially in the free weights room,” one University of Texas student said in a comment for Nayak’s column. “A lot of times, girls can feel intimidated to go in there and grab some weights, as weightlifting is seen as a thing men do even though it’s important for women to do also.”

"Often women feel that if they go to the gym in leggings and a sports bra, people are just going to be looking at the way (they’re) dressed,” the student added. “That can be a really uncomfortable situation — when you’re just trying to work out but men around you could be focused on something else.”

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'The ex-girlfriend of disgraced pol Hiram Monserrate took another stab at crying in Queens court Friday as jury deliberations began in her samurai-sword case.

It was the second teary day in court for Karla Barba, who is facing up to 25 years prison for a bloody 2016 fight with her fiance in the Jackson Heights home they share with their 4-year-old daughter, Mia.

Barba had burst into tears Thursday on the witness stand, where she claimed that “accidents happen.”
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Her lawyer then began closing arguments, telling jurors again that the pair love each other and that Barba never meant to seriously injure Larrea when she lunged at him, decorative sword in hand, during a domestic dispute.

“She did not unsheathe the sword,” said lawyer Stacey Richman. “It came undone itself” as she swung it a second time.

“This was a crazy, unfortunate accident,” Richman told jurors. “But it wasn’t a crime.”

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'A man was escorted out of a Colorado school board meeting Thursday for naming a teacher who called the wrong Covington Catholic boy part of the “Hitler Youth” on a now-deleted Twitter account.

Mountain Ridge Middle School seventh-grade history teacher Michelle Grissom allegedly named and posted a picture of Covington Catholic student Jay Jackson as one of the boys wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats in Washington, D.C. Jackson was not in Washington with his peers, who were confronted by American Indian activist Nathan Phillips.

“I can’t imagine what drove a teacher to make comments online that were hateful and bigoted, slanderous and vilifying,” parent Aaron Johnson said Thursday. “Now we’re all left picking up the pieces she broke.”

Johnson elaborated to The Daily Caller News Foundation over the phone that Grissom’s actions makes the entire school community look bad.'

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'A Colorado middle school teacher was placed on paid leave and resigned from her leadership position with a local teachers’ union after she incorrectly identified one of the Covington Catholic students and labeled him “Hitler Youth.”

Michelle Grissom, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Mountain Ridge Middle School in Highlands Ranch, tweeted Sunday: “His name is [redacted]. His Twitter account is closed to nonfollowers so we won’t interfere with his training in the #HitlerYouth,” according to screenshots obtained by a local NBC affiliate.
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Ms. Grissom, who also served on the executive board for the Douglas County Federation teachers’ union, submitted her resignation Wednesday, the union’s president confirmed.'

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'The R&B singer Chris Brown filed a false accusation complaint in Paris on Thursday against a woman who accused him of rape last week.

On Tuesday, Mr. Brown was released without charge following questioning by the Paris police over an allegation that he raped a woman at a hotel in the city.

The one-page complaint, submitted by Raphael Chiche, Mr. Brown’s lawyer, asks the Paris Public Prosecutor’s office to investigate the claim as a criminal matter. The charge carries a penalty of five years in prison and a fine of around $50,000. Mr. Chiche did not respond to a request for further comment.'

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'People are entitled to disagree, but what is completely unacceptable is the level of violent imagery directed at kids by adults. The respected journalist Reza Aslantweeted “Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?” A writer for Saturday Night Liveoffered oral sex for anyone who managed to punch one of the kids in the face. Trevor Noah let these school kids know that not only did “everyone” want to punch these boys out, but he did too. The list goes on and on.
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'The chief executive of the parent company of Gillette, which recently ran an advertisement depicting traditional views of masculinity as immoral and abusive, refused to back down on Thursday.

“It started a conversation,” Proctor & Gamble chief executive David Taylor said in an interview with CNBC’s Sara Eisen Thursday. “There is an issue with tox masculinity.”

Taylor, who spoke to Eisen at the globalist boondoggle in Davos, described the negative reaction to the video as coming from a “well organized but small number’ of people.'

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'Alyssa Milano refused to apologize Wednesday for comparing the pro-President Trump hats worn by the Covington Catholic High School boys to Ku Klux Klan hoods.

The actress and liberal activist penned an op-ed for The Wrap responding to the torrent of backlash she received for tweeting over the weekend, “The red MAGA hat is the new white hood.”
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But not Ms. Milano. She argued the hats the boys were wearing were “synonymous with white nationalism and racism” and that the boys were in Washington “protesting against a woman’s right to reproductive freedom.”

“When I saw that video, I saw boys flaunting their entitlement and displaying toxic masculinity,” she wrote. “It seemed to me like they were reflecting the white nationalism and racism that the hats on their heads have come to represent.”'

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'Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., landed a twofer of criticism on newsrooms this week, claiming the coverage of her appearance on the “Late Show” was both sexist and racist. The response from the national press, which is usually Johnny-on-the-spot with indignant replies to such media criticisms, has been a mixture of silence, indifference, and general agreement.

Host Stephen Colbert asked Ocasio-Cortez Monday whether she gives a “f-ck” about her senior Democratic colleagues who have urged her to wait her turn.

“On a scale from zero to some,” Colbert asked, “how many f-cks do you give?”

Politico describes what happened next: “Ocasio-Cortez reached to her side, as if rummaging through an imaginary bag, and pulled out her hand to make a circle. ‘I think it’s zero,’ she said to laughs and cheers from the crowd.”

Here’s how certain newsrooms characterized the event in their headlines: 

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'Fifty-five years ago, the University of Texas-Austin desegregated its dormitories and dining facilities, allowing black students equal access.

But segregation in the name of safe spaces has become popular on the political left, and one UT student is proposing a separate campus space for women to get exercise.

Daily Texan columnist Sanika Nayak pitched the idea for a female-only “women’s center” in Gregory Gym, the public university’s largest workout facility, in a December column.

“Oftentimes, it can be difficult for some female students to go to the gym” because it “can be seen as an overly masculine place, and women may feel alienated or intimidated as a result,” Nayak wrote.

It wouldn’t be the first time a college has restricted workout space on the basis of sex or gender identity.'

Video here.

We are starting the #boyswillbeboys movement on Twitter and Facebook. Please share a photo of father and child doing something fantastic. Make sure to use the hashtag #boyswillbeboys. We want to reclaim the term.

There are hundreds of fathers and boys in Australia doing the same thing. We want to end this feminist attack on men. Join us in showing the world what being a good man is!

Video here.

This is what the makers of the Gillette ad were REALLY trying to say.

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'Shouldn’t there be an entire media and liberal outrage cycle devoted to this blatant act of sexual assault?'