CDC: Health Disparities in Suicide

Article here. Gender disparities not included. Excerpt:

'Suicide and suicide attempts can have lasting emotional, mental, and physical health impacts, as well as economic consequences. They can also impact people who struggle with their own risk of suicide and/or mental health challenges (called "lived experience").'

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Workshop aims to help prepare boys for manhood

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Protégé Club, which is the organization’s youth division, offers programs geared toward identifying risk factorsof young men and encouraging them to find their rightful place in society.

“This forum will give them the ability to learn how to identify and create resources and critique destructive masculinity views while journeying to become a reverent trailblazer who is associated with partners in their community,” the statement continues.

Areas that the workshop will cover include man box, family values, communication, sexuality, dating violence, abstinence, and contraceptives, STIs and STDs, goal setting, decision making and the cost of fatherhood.'

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Why do Democrats have a masculinity problem?

Article here. Excerpt:

'Aside from all the ways that men play the role of American culture’s scapegoat (“toxic masculinity”), mainstream American life is deeply feminine (as is much of modern American evangelicalism). The feminine gaze is the operating assumption of modern life. To partake in polite society requires adopting a feminine instinct to operate in today’s mainstream. One must cater virtually every message to the whims of the most important demographic: suburban women.

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Minnesota mom admits to sexually abusing 2 teen hockey players she met in hot tub during hotel ‘staycation’

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Minnesota mother of two admitted to sexually abusing a pair of 15-year-old hockey players whom she met in a hotel hot tub during a “staycation” with her husband and children.

Allison Schardin, 39, pleaded guilty on Friday to third-degree criminal sexual conduct after she pleaded not guilty to the disturbing allegations in May, according to reports.

Schardin, of Blaine, was at a hotel with her spouse and two children on Jan. 14 when she spotted the two teen athletes, who were traveling from Colorado with their team, and struck up a conversation with them, according to a complaint obtained by Law & Crime.

While she was with the boys in the hot tub, her husband yelled, “If you don’t come upstairs, our relationship is over,” the complaint states.

Schardin exchanged contact information with the victims and later texted one of them to see if she could come to his room after getting into a fight with her husband.

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Lawmakers Invited to Issue Statements in Support of Men’s Equality Month

Press release here. Excerpt:

'October 9, 2024– Recent news reports have identified men as the new swing voting bloc in many countries around the world (1). This fact highlights the importance of addressing the long-standing concerns of men and boys.

To raise public awareness, the International Council for Men and Boys (ICMB) is sponsoring Men’s Equality Month in November. The month will feature educational events, social media efforts, and more. Men’s Equality Month will complement and support Women’s History Month, held every year in March.

Over 40 organizations already have made plans to participate in the November observance, with additional groups expected in the next several weeks. These groups are located around the world, making Men’s Equality Month a global event: Bermuda, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, England, India, Kenya, Lithuania, Netherlands, Philippines, Slovenia, Trinidad, the United States, and Uruguay. (2)'

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Kansas professor on leave after calling to 'shoot' men who won't vote for female president

Article here. Excerpt:

'A University of Kansas professor is on administrative leave after a viral clip circulating social media Wednesday showed him calling for men who refuse to vote for a female presidential candidate to be shot.

The professor in the clip appears to be addressing a lecture hall full of students. He bluntly tells the students that men who underestimate a woman’s ability to lead the country should be shot, arguing "they clearly don't understand the way the world works."

“It’s what frustrates me, there are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don’t think females are smart enough to be president,” he says. “We can line all those guys up and shoot them.”

The professor then adds, “Scratch that from the recording, I don’t want the dean hearing that I said that.”'

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"Another country falls to feminism"

YT's Better Bachelor takes on the effects of the spread of feminism on the dating scene just about anywhere you may go in the world in a video found here.

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Opinion: The evidence shows women make better doctors. So why do men still dominate medicine?

Article here. Excerpt:

'“When will I see the doctor?” Most female doctors have been asked this question many times. It feels like a slight — a failure to recognize the struggle it took to get to where they are, a fight that is far from over once a woman has her medical degree.

Women now make up more than half of medical students but only about 37% of practicing doctors. That is partly because the makeup of the medical workforce lags that of the student body. But it’s also because persistent sexism drives higher attrition among women in medicine.
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That’s unfortunate not just for doctors but also for patients. On the whole, female doctors are more empathetic, detail-oriented and likely to follow through than their male counterparts. In other words, they are better doctors.

Admittedly, that is a generalization, but it’s one worth making. I experienced it firsthand working with female colleagues, and I’m informed by that experience in addressing my own medical needs. I prefer to see female doctors.'

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For Women Only event celebrates cancer survivors, promotes local healthcare services

Article here. Excerpt:

'For Women Only, the annual event sponsored by Orleans Community Health which raises funds for cancer services, took place Thursday night at White Birch Golf Course.
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Condo announced the evening had grossed $6,300 to provide essential cancer services.'

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NFL Players Say Media Policy Is 'Outdated,' Want Interviews Outside Of Locker Room After Nude Incidents

Article here. Needless to say, if these were female athletes, there'd be no question but that camera-wielding reporters could not be allowed in the locker rooms. Excerpt:

'On Thursday, some individual players and at least one club -- the Cincinnati Bengals -- announced they would not be doing interviews in their locker room going forward.

"As you've heard from a couple of teams now and the NFLPA is going to come out with a statement, in an effort to protect the sanctity of the locker room and the comfort of the players, each team is going to figure out a program to where we conduct our interviews outside of the locker room," said Bengals center, Ted Karras, the team's union representative.
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But what has caused the change in how players view this policy has come in recent years when electronic media captured interviews on camera, and sometimes caught players in compromising states of undress.'

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Tasmania’s Supreme Court Overrules Closing of Women-Only Art Installation

Article here. Excerpt:

'Today, however, acting justice Stephen Marshall of the supreme court overturned the tribunal’s order, ruling that the Ladies Lounge was not discriminatory.

The “intention was to promote equal opportunity by drawing attention to present and past societal disadvantage to women by providing them with the concept of a ‘flipped universe’,” Marshall said. “[It provides] women with a rare glimpse of what it is like to be advantaged rather than disadvantaged.”

He pointed out that the tribunal failed to consider structural discrimination related to women’s status in Australia. The case will return to the tribunal for reconsideration.

“The [Supreme Court] judge’s verdict demonstrates a simple truth: women are better than men,” Kaechele proclaimed on Instagram after hearing of the decision. “The judge sided with the arguments put forward by our all-female team.”'

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Trump and Harris battle over male voters — and what masculinity looks like in 2024

Article here. Excerpt:

'Richard Reeves, founder and president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, a nonpartisan research organization, said shifting political views among young men were the result of feeling less at home on the left than prior generations because of an unwillingness on the left to talk about problems men specifically face while at times painting them as problematic.

“That’s partly because of the kind of gender dynamics we see kind of playing out on the left,” he said. “More a sense of [political] homelessness and more a bit of detachment, a bit of retreat. It’s not a stampede over to the right.”'

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The new Democrat-approved masculinity: Sit down and shut up

Article here. Excerpt:

'It is no secret that the Democratic Party has a problem with male voters. If the polls are to be believed, any hope the party has of winning the presidential election relies on appealing to women at the expense of men.

But, perhaps concerned that Vice President Kamala Harris’s lack of appeal to men may prove fatal in the presidential election, the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party are out to redefine what it means to be masculine, and the newly arrived definition is effectively the male version of stay in the kitchen.

In her latest cringeworthy interview as an MSNBC commentator, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki shares the gospel of new masculinity by praising second gentleman Doug Emhoff for “reshaping the perception of masculinity” by being “a supportive spouse.”

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Our Neglect of Men is Having Devastating Consequences on Families, on the Economy, and More

Press release here. Excerpt:

'French professor Olivier Roy recently highlighted the profound societal changes in traditional norms and structures in Western societies in recent decades. (1) In his book The Crisis of Culture, Roy argues that the deculturation of society has contributed to a crisis in which the roles and well-being of men have been increasingly neglected. This oversight has significant repercussions for families, economic stability, and even national security.

Labor Force: Many of the problems can be traced to the declining labor force participation of men. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s landmark report, The State of the Working and Non-Working Man, highlights the alarming decline in male labor force participation in recent decades. (2)

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America’s Young Men Are Falling Even Further Behind

Article here. Excerpt:

'In Spanish, parents call it encaminado: making sure your children are on the path to an independent adulthood.

Out of Dan and Joana Moreno’s four grown children, only their daughter is encaminada. She recently graduated from business school and got engaged. The Morenos’ three adult sons are still sleeping in their Miami childhood bedrooms. The younger two dropped out of college, and the oldest never went. All three are single. Their only work experience is with the family business.

“Something has gone amiss here,” says their father, Dan, who owns the repair chain Flamingo Appliance Service. “We love them, we love having them around, but that’s not how you build a life.”

The life trajectories of America’s sons and daughters are diverging.'

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