Article here. Excerpt:

'Harley Watson was on a path to what he calls a "gangster" life.

The 17-year-old, from Clacton, in Essex, was a "lost and troubled kid", having grown up without a dad.

"I was behaving very badly in school and, if I'd carried on, I would almost certainly have been excluded."

His experience is echoed in a new report, which says young men who lack a positive male role model are in crisis.

Fatherlessness has a significant impact on boys' mental health, education and future prospects, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) report found.

Aged 14, Harley joined Lads Need Dads, a local programme that equips boys with life skills and confidence.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'She’s got a joke about Carr, a fair few about her “current husband” and childhood sweetheart Bobby, a good line about their son Fred — whom the doctor pronounced not neurodivergent but instead “diagnosed as ‘boy’”. And if she jokes about how white and well-off all three of her kids are, she has great lines too about how a man like Dave Grohl — “who looks like he sleeps in his car” — can father a love child. The gag is usually that men have somehow inexplicably been allowed to think they are better than second-class citizens.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'We have to examine why the manosphere’s predominantly young male audience is engaging with its content, what about it connects with them, and how it works. We must look beyond the noise and disregard our own reactions to truly grasp its power.

Boys and young men today feel ostracised by what they see as the dominant conversations in society. They find themselves problematised in gender narratives, framed as perpetrators of problematic behaviour, and portrayed as potential aggressors – before they have so much as made friends with a girl.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Many commuter train lines in Japan operate trains with women-only carriages on a daily basis during the morning and evening rush hours, as a countermeasure against gropers, or chikan, as they’re called in Japanese. Chikan use the crowded conditions onboard commuter trains as cover for their heinous acts, making it difficult to identify or confront the perpetrator before they exit the train and make their escape, and so women-only cars are offered as an option for female passengers who feel more at ease with no men in their vicinity.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Critics of the UN dismiss it as ineffectual for its failures to preserve global peace. Yet meanwhile, UN operatives are active in promoting the Sexual Revolution. Two scholars write that feminists “have turned the United Nations…into the global headquarters of feminist missionaries.” In UN documents, “‘peace’, ‘justice,’ and ‘development’ are linked over and over again with women.”

Some 1,300 “gender focal points” exist to address “women” or “gender” in the UN system. Its agencies are required to incorporate sexual ideology (“gender perspective”) “in all policies and programs.” Hundreds of offices and officials are devoted to the “promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.” Not a single such agency exists for men (or for families that include men), despite the fact that men are the overwhelming majority of war casualties, AIDS victims, victims of occupational injuries and deaths, prisoners, and more.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a federal court to consider whether an Oklahoma woman named Brenda Andrew should get a new trial. In 2004, an Oklahoma jury convicted Andrew and sentenced her to die for the killing of her husband three years earlier. She is now the only woman on the state’s death row.

However, Andrew has long asserted that prosecutors tainted her case with irrelevant testimony regarding her sex life, mothering skills, and clothing. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court agreed. With this landmark 7–2 ruling, the nation’s highest court recognized that harmful gender stereotypes can poison women’s criminal trials.

Article here. Excerpt:

'“The poison of patriarchy is back and is back with a vengeance,” United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres told the opening of the annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN in New York on Monday.

The CSW takes place amid a major global backlash against women’s rights, from the Taliban banning Afghan women from public life to the Trump administration in the United States pushing back against “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) which has resulted in cuts to research on women’s health.

“Misogyny is on the rise, and so, violence and discrimination,” said Sima Bahous, who heads UN Women, noting that “domestic and ODA [official development assistance] allocations to gender equality remain woefully inadequate and, in some cases, are being cut altogether”.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Mark Koerner just learned the tough lesson that questioning the term “toxic masculinity” in a liberal school district can spur a reaction that might come across as, well, a bit toxic.

“It was pretty confrontational towards me. You can call it toxic. You can call it whatever you want,” said Koerner, vice president of the San Rafael City Schools’ Board of Education, a day after a throng of district parents vociferously panned his resolution during a school board meeting.

“Offensive,” “embarrassing,” ridiculous,” “tone deaf,” “insensitive at best.” Those were just some of the jabs in the nearly hourlong fusillade of admonishments, mostly from district moms, of Koerner and his ill-fated resolution.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Actor Anthony Mackie, who plays the latest incarnation of Marvel’s Captain America in "Captain America: Brave New World," warned that American masculinity is both necessary and exceptional.

Mackie has made numerous headlines in recent months, having taken up the iconic role of Captain America from its popular predecessor, Chris Evans, in Marvel movies. On Tuesday, "The Pivot Podcast" released an extensive interview where the actor spoke about both his career and his personal life, including how he raises his sons.

"In the past 20 years, we've been living through the death of the American male," Mackie said. "They have literally killed masculinity in our homes and our communities, for one reason or another, but I raise my boys to be young men."

He explained that he believes becoming young men consists both of maturity and the ability to be a protector.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'That Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini conferred the Indira Gandhi Award on Women’s Day to a Jind-based social worker once jailed for filing a false rape case has left the state BJP government red-faced. Court documents show Rekha Dhiman had in 2020 falsely accused 12 men of rape, and has previously also filed false police complaints.

On Sunday, the Haryana Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) sought a time-bound report on the matter from the women and child development department. The government has also said strict action will be taken against those found guilty in this matter.

Talking to ThePrint Monday, Haryana government media coordinator Ashok Chhabra, confirmed that the CM Saini “has taken this lapse very seriously and sought a report from the concerned department”.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Smith College students can take a course on “Marxist Feminism” in the spring semester as part of the school’s Program for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality. Smith College is a private women’s liberal arts college in western Massachusetts.

According to the course description, Marxist feminism begins with the “simple insight” that “capitalism relies on the class politics of unpaid, reproductive ‘women’s work.’” Based on this understanding, Marxist feminists have combatted systems of power and oppression, including “patriarchy, slavery, feudalism and colonialism.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The vice president of San Rafael’s school board withdrew a controversial resolution Monday night that would have recognized “the indispensable role of young men in our community and commit[ted] to support their needs and acknowledge their contributions.”

Mark Koerner pulled his legislation before the vote in front of a room filled almost entirely with women after facing intense backlash following the introduction of the resolution Friday.
...
During the 40-minute public comment period before the vote, nearly two dozen speakers described the resolution as “strange,” “ridiculous,” “offensive,” “a mockery of women’s history month,” and “a vanity metric.”'

Koerner that month proposed a resolution to instate an “International Boys Day.” It was denied. Koerner said he did not intend for the resolution to be divisive and admitted he was “open to revising language.”

Announcing the New York Declaration for Men and Boys

Rally at UN Headquarters 8:30-9:30am at the corner of 1st Ave and E46th St on the East side of 1st Ave @ the Security entrance to the UN on the North end of that building

Press Conference 11:00am, March 12, 2025.

Come in person to the Even Hotel, 221 E 44th St. New York City, New York, NY.

Or join virtually through this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87840628063?pwd=bXClFcDHWWIznQOOQ2Y1dU9g68p9yI.1

You may recall that 30 years ago, the United Nations approved the Beijing Declaration, which since then has been the cornerstone of the global women’s rights movement.

The Beijing Declaration makes numerous references to “gender equality.” And though the gender disparities affecting men were well documented even then, the UN has inexplicably done nothing to address the 12 areas of male disadvantage: www.menandboys.net

This lamentable state of affairs is about to change.

Article here. I read essays like this one and the lack of mention of what men have to deal with especially in the non-Western world (killed in mine cave-ins, by forced military service, industrial accidents, etc.) is glaring. The author is clearly all about and only about the trials of women. This is feminist thinking in action. Excerpt:

'Unpaid work. Sexual harassment. Violence. Low wages. The “motherhood penalty.” These are just some of the issues that millions of women continue to face at work in 2025.

Despite progress made towards global gender equality, men continue to hold the highest paid positions in industries worldwide, while many women still typically handle grunt work across companies and supply chains.

Meanwhile, many women around the world are still struggling to find work, with many holding precarious jobs or forced to hustle in the informal economy just to get by.'

Article here. Generally gynocentric, of course, but it's a start anyway. Excerpt:

'The boys are not all right. That’s the message from a new Centre for Social Justice report, Lost Boys, published last week. It surveys how boys and young men are faring in Britain and finds that in several areas there is now a reverse gender gap, with boys, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, struggling to keep up with girls.

When it comes to education, girls outperform boys at GCSEs and A-levels, and the ratio of women to men at university is 60:40. Boys are more than twice as likely to be excluded from school, with rates of exclusion particularly high for those from disadvantaged backgrounds. This is all feeding through into labour market outcomes: in the 00s, women aged 16-24 were more likely to be not in employment, education and training than young men; in recent years, that has flipped, with young men also significantly more likely to be unemployed than young women.