Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2024-05-19 22:22
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'For poetic justice after Harrison Butker’s Neanderthal outburst — and because the pipeline of talent is real — the Kansas City Chiefs’ next kicker should be a woman.
This is not a joke. It’s not unrealistic. And it would be good for business. Just ask the University of Manitoba how ticket sales were last year.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2024-05-18 06:07
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'There’s an old proverb that says, “Blessed is he who plants trees under whose shade he will never sit.” For Scott Galloway — Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, author, and host of the “Prof G” and “Pivot” podcasts — this proverb perfectly applies to the important work of the men who mentor teenage boys. Unfortunately (and unfairly), mentoring has gotten a bad rap, and Galloway isn’t afraid to put it bluntly: “The Catholic Church and Michael Jackson have f*cked it up for all of us.”
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2024-05-17 02:04
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'Over the years, tech has found another way to pay lip service to diversity while doing little to increase the number of underrepresented minorities, especially Black women, by broadening the definition of diversity so it’s not just about representational diversity but “cognitive diversity” as well. Cognitive diversity is all about the different ways people think or work or learn—how they approach a problem or solution. Sometimes it even refers to different personality types. On the surface, there is nothing wrong with the notion or even practice of cognitive diversity—but when you elevate it to the same level as racial, ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic diversity, the very concept of diversity is watered down. It also means diversity is reinterpreted to include what Silicon Valley has never had a shortage of: white men with quirky personalities. The problem is there is never enough room for women.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2024-05-17 01:40
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'A petition calling for the Kansas City Chiefs to kick Harrison Butker off the team has more than 136,000 signatures and counting.
The Change.org petition, started by Willard Harris, is encouraging the NFL franchise to cut the kicker due to the “harmful” and “unacceptable” remarks he made during a May 11 commencement address at Benedictine College.
The petition adds that such discriminatory remarks can lead to hate crimes, and it demands accountability from sports figures “who should be role models.”
Harris, the petition organizer, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for a comment.
By 4 p.m. ET on Thursday, the petition had garnered 136,979 signatures, with an initial goal of 150,000.
Harris and those who signed are the latest to voice their displeasure with the NFL veteran.
On Wednesday, the league itself disavowed Butker's comments, saying in part in a statement to PEOPLE that his "views are not those of the NFL as an organization."'
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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2024-05-17 01:12
Video here. The narrator discusses what happened to feminism over the past few decades. I recommend watching his other videos too, as he strikes me as being very bright and articulate.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2024-05-16 18:50
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'Of course, the woke mob is coming for Harrison Butker now. Of course, it's trying to have him canceled by getting him fired.
It's part of the playbook. It's not surprising.
The problem here is the mob is about to run headlong into a meritocracy. The NFL struggles to cancel anybody – at least not on the first try – because NFL teams in business to win usually keep the best people around regardless of their failings.
Or perceived failings, in this case.
Butker is now in the crosshairs of multiple petitions at change.org that -- get this -- call "upon the Kansas City Chiefs management to dismiss Harrison Butker immediately for his inappropriate conduct."
There isn't just one petition but two that are calling for Butker, the Chiefs' kicker, to get the, boot. The more prolific of those two petitions set its initial goal of 35,000 signatures. It has more than 94,538 as of Thursday morning.
The petition has, here we go, moved the goal post to now collecting 50,000 signatures.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2024-05-16 18:48
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'The city of Kansas City, Missouri, has apologized after posting a message on social media revealing the residence of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker after the Super Bowl champion came under attack following his faith-based commencement speech at Benedictine College over the weekend.
The official social media account of Kansas City on Wednesday issued a brief apology on X after sparking major backlash on social media for sharing a post referencing the city where Butker resides.
"We apologies [sic] for our previous tweet. It was shared in error," the post read.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2024-05-16 13:00
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'Sky News host James Macpherson has reacted to a conservative YouTuber asking college students the
“ridiculous proposition” of donating a testicle to the fight against “toxic masculinity”.
“Can you imagine a more ridiculous proposition,” Mr Macpherson said.
“And yet, how ridiculous have our universities become.”'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2024-05-16 08:02
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'Democratic Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley has inspired conservative outrage online over a video clip showing her disapproval of "white men failing up."
Pressley, among the progressive House Democrats often collectively referred to as "the Squad," made the remark while addressing allegations of widespread sexual harassment and discrimination at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.
The congresswoman said that she is a survivor of sexual violence while grilling FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg over a report earlier this month alleging that the agency he leads is riddled with sexual misconduct. Pressley mentioned "white men" after questioning why most of the men accused of harassing their female colleagues received no disciplinary measures.
"I am so tired of white men failing up," she added. This lack of accountability is shameful, inadequate and deeply unsatisfactory, and it is re-traumatizing."'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2024-05-16 07:41
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'Mr Allman said Joynes hoped she would be 'treated very differently' and they would see the evidence 'differently' because she is a woman and not a man in the same situation.
'We have to ask in the cold light of day would Miss Joynes and those acting on her behalf appealed to your sympathy in that way if she'd been a 30-year-old man called Robert Joynes?' he asked.
He also asked whether the two boys would have 'been disparaged in the same way in attempt to discredit them' if they had been two girls of a similar age.
'Would the defence on Miss Joynes' behalf - in our theoretical scenario on Mr Joynes' behalf - have suggested to you that the girls the were the ones that wanted it to happen?' he asked.
'It could just not have taken the same lines in questions because it would have been quite obscene.'
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2024-05-15 23:10
Video here. Erin discusses "toxic femininity" after discussing "toxic masculinity". She debunks the feminist definition of TF and points out the alternatives.
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2024-05-15 22:11
Video here. Remember the Grace Hopper Conference kerfuffle? The narrator uses it to outline the ways feminism's attitude towards women actually works against them in the job market.
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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2024-05-15 00:06
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'NCFM is commemorating the 107th Anniversary of the Selective Service System; the law requiring
male citizens to register for the military draft by the age of eighteen, by filing a Complaint in the
Central District of California. The Complaint requests that the court deem the mandatory
registration of male citizens and immigrants a violation of Equal Protection under the Fifth
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as it is unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex.
Along with NCFM, five other individual plaintiffs joined the lawsuit. Twenty-year old plaintiff Jordan
Falcon stated that he, “ was opposed to bias conscription and does not like the idea of being sent
to war based upon his gender.” Tyler McNamara, Conor McKiernan, Nicholas Milillo, and Nicolas
Mendiola are fervent supporters of the equal treatment of all sexes.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2024-05-14 23:10
Video here. An analysis of the outright anti-male bigotry exposed by the "man v. bear" question.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2024-05-14 07:41
Article here. Excerpt:
'Let’s move to the man who has placed himself at the centre of all this. I notice people have many opinions on Mr. Jason Lau. What is your take on him?
I like him. I think he’s cute. And sincerely interested in the law. It was a pleasure to be courted by him.
So you welcomed the case.
Being taken to court was a dream come true. I was utterly delighted. And I think Mr. Lau was very brave. He brought an earnest and steady resolve.
I am genuinely grateful to Mr. Lau for taking the Ladies Lounge to court, so that we may exercise the argument. He is essential to the art, and I would like everyone to leave him alone now and focus instead on the horribleness of men in general.
Do you think they are horrible?
Yes. They really are.
You say women deserve three hundred years of reparations in addition to equal rights. Do you think that is fair?
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