Army approves reduced physical fitness standards for women, older soldiers

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'Following a three-year review, the Army has scrapped plans to use the same physical fitness test for all soldiers, choosing instead to have some reduced standards to allow women and older soldiers to pass, the service announced Wednesday.

The decision follows a RAND-led study that found men were more easily passing the new, more difficult Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) compared to women and older soldiers, who were “failing at noticeably higher rates.” That six-event test developed in 2019 was an expansion from the three events — pushups, situps and a run — soldiers had done prior.

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"The misogyny here is not even thinly veiled" - Tennis fans slam Stefanos Tsitsipas for harsh words against 'modern feminism'

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'Stefanos Tsitsipas recently shared some very strong views against feminism, expressing his belief that "modern feminism disparages men." The Greek tennis star also stated that equality should be practiced irrespective of gender, race, religion or background, and that modern feminism had gone away from equality.

Tsitsipas has since faced a lot of flak for his comments, which were made in response to similar views from entrepreneur Iman Gadzhi shared on the social media blogging site Twitter. Tsitsipas is currently in off-season mode after his 2022 season ended with a group-stage exit at the ATP Finals.'

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Change the law to make it fairer for fathers

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'In the 1970s, Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously used “Appendix E” — a list of hundreds of laws that discriminated on the basis of sex — as a playbook for dismantling gender discrimination. Almost all the statutory language that explicitly treated men and women differently has since been struck from the law books. Yet New York State has failed to remove a blatant example of gender discrimination from our Domestic Relations Law.

Gov. Hochul has a bill on her desk that would remedy that. It is aptly named the Parental Equity Act (S6389/A7347).

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'Toxic masculinity' may be caused by an actual, infectious, brain-altering parasite

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'Suspicious. Jealous. Quicker to make an immediate judgment. Less willing to listen to others. Guys who were ready to break the rules if it helped them personally. Sound familiar? Other factors, such as self-control and even “clothes tidiness” were found to be decreased by infection. Here’s another one: Infected men scored significantly lower than uninfected men when it came to establishing relationships with women.

It is very hard not to draw a line between these results and guys like Nick Fuentes screaming about “replacement theory” and fretting over declining sperm counts while claiming that relationships between men and women “are gay.”

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Unconstitutional ‘SAFER Act’ violates the First Amendment, undermines academic freedom, and seeks to upend decades of anti-discrimination law

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'Earlier this month, Senators Bob Casey and Mazie Hirono and Representatives Jahana Hayes and Debbie Dingell introduced the “Students’ Access to Freedom and Educational Rights Act of 2022” (the “SAFER Act”; S. 5158/H.R. 9387) in their respective chambers of Congress.

If enacted, the SAFER Act would amend federal anti-discrimination laws in ways that would upend decades of legal precedent and threaten the civil liberties of students and faculty alike.

While there are numerous problems with the legislation, three of them stand out above the others.

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Are universities doomed?

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'Nationwide undergraduate enrollment has dropped by more than 650,000 students in a single year - or over 4 percent alone from spring 2021 to 2022, and some 14% in the last decade. Yet the U.S. population still increases by about 2 million people a year.

Men account for about 71% of the current shortfall of students. Women number almost 60% of all college students - an all-time high.

Monotonous professors hector students about "toxic masculinity," as "gender" studies proliferate. If the plan was to drive males off campus, universities have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.

Stanford's published 2025 class profile claims a student body of "23% white." Fewer than half of the class is male. Stanford mysteriously does not release the numbers of those successfully admitted without SAT tests - but recently conceded it rejects about 70% of those with perfect SAT scores.'

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Dartmouth $100,000,000 STEM program appears to exclude white men

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'Dartmouth College’s planned $100 million program to help “historically underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,” is moving forward, aided by a recent gift that will cover one-fourth of the cost.

However, white male students appear to be excluded from the program, raising legal concerns. Groups included in the STEM-X initiative, according to Dartmouth, include “Black, Latinx, and Native Americans,” as well as “women.”

Several experts on Title IX sex discrimination and Title VI race discrimination law are concerned about the legality of the program, according to comments they made to The College Fix.

He said that Dartmouth is promoting a “false narrative” that women are underrepresented in STEM and noted “that women are overrepresented in many STEM fields including biology, health sciences, medical schools, and veterinary medicine.”'

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The Rise Of Misandry To Promote Gynocentric Agenda

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'Human beings are created with inadequacies. Men tend to be physically stronger than women and can cope with the stressors of life more than women. Women, on the other hand, are meant to be more compassionate than men. They can better take care of the responsibilities of others without being stressed. That is why they tend to play a more significant role in the upbringing of children.
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But unfortunately, the moral justification of this ideology puts men at a disadvantage. They consistently receive backlash as a predicament of these struggles. Those ardent advocates always consider men as oppressors, narcissists, egoists and self-centered, which causes all the misfortunes in women’s lives. This makes women that are adamant about this ideology highly androgynous.

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Women-only: This Texas resale marketplace hopes to make selling safe

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'Allhers, an online platform based in Austin, Texas, says it’s devoted to providing women a safe place to buy and re-sell products — by eliminating men from the equation.

Becca Butler, one of the founders of Allhers, said she frequently moved around from childhood into adulthood. When she moved from Los Angeles to Austin, she joined a women-only discussion group and decided to list some furniture she was selling.

“It sold immediately,” she said.

Further, her experience selling in this group was much more pleasant than in previous instances where she sold her stuff on other platforms, such as Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace.

“Everyone Venmoed me ahead of time…No one was haggling or lowballing me,” she said. “Conversations were really friendly, and it just felt a lot more fun. I wasn’t worried about strangers coming over to pick up this furniture because they’d already been vetted to be in the group.”

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Profs fear engineering exam may be ‘biased’ against women

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'Two Kansas State University professors have discovered that women in engineering are 11.6 percent less likely to pass the field’s professional license exam, which they suggest may partly be due to “biases in the exam itself.”

To obtain a license, engineers must pass the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam after four years of field experience. Taken by a few thousand people each year, the eight-hour exam is typically considered the “gateway” to a long-term engineering career.

But a new study casts concern over whether the exam is fair for female engineers. Led by Julia Keen and Anna Salvatorelli, the study finds that women taking the exam nationally are 11.6 percent less likely to pass, and that the disparity is even worse in certain states.
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Lead author Julia Keen says she was motivated to investigate after earning her PhD in Engineering and seeing many of her peers leave the field.

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Avatar 2 Is White Man's Fantasy of Indigenous Resistance

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'If you want to see a white man’s version of an Indigenous futurism film, however, then the local multiplex showing Avatar: The Way of Water is the way to go.

That said, the plot of what some call Avatar 2 is simple enough: the earth is dying, humans need resources, and this requires a complete takeover of the planet Pandora, which also requires the “taming” of the Indigenous inhabitants, the Na’vi.'

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Profs: 'white male privilege' to blame for STEM gender gap

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'Two Seattle Pacific University professors contend that “white male privilege” is the primary reason that few women choose to study physics in college.

Rachel Scherr and Amy Robertson, both physics professors at Seattle Pacific, argue in the October issue of Race and Physics Teaching that physics instruction is currently unfair to women because “white male privilege pervades the discipline of physics as well as the classrooms in which physics is taught and learned.”

“Physics strongly values male-socialized traits such as independence, competition, and individual victories,” they write, adding that “objectivity and rationality themselves, the foundations of scientific ideology, are also male-socialized traits.”

The authors also assert that science has been used as a tool of racial oppression and colonization, which further hurts minorities in STEM and physics classrooms.'

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Over 100k Russian men killed in war

Article here. If it were 100k women, it would have been stopped long ago. Male disposability is one of many issues around equality that feminism ignores. Excerpt:

'VLADIMIR Putin has the blood of 100,000 Russian soldiers on his hands as the grim milestone was reached today 10 months after Russia's doomed invasion.

But experts have said that Mad Vlad will be happy to send one million Russians to the slaughter in his desperate bid to achieve victory in Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials have been keeping a close tally on the war's death toll - and today claimed Putin has a grand total of 100,400 men.

With the war reaching day 302, that means Vlad has lost an average of 332 soldiers a day since February.

It is a military failure of incredible scale, with poorly trained and poorly equipped soldiers being sent to their deaths in muddy trenches.

Putin's military death toll is already more than six times higher than the Soviets lost in Afghanistan, and 20 times higher than US casualties in Iraq.'

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Woman spared jail for groping man who asked for her to be sentenced like a man

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'A woman who drunkenly groped a man has been spared jail despite the victim urging she be tried like a man.

Mum-of-six Jemma Whiteside, 40, sexually assaulted the man at Everton’s game against Manchester City at Goodison Park, Liverpool, on February 26.

A court heard how she grabbed the man’s genitals, ‘rubbed’ up against him and said: ‘I’m going to f**k him and I don’t even know his name.’

The ‘shocked and upset’ victim said in a police report: ‘It should not matter whether the assault was by a man or a woman, it should be treated the same.’'

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UK: Woman calls for men's shelters after son murdered by fiancėe

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'A mum whose son was stabbed to death by his fiancée is calling for more refuges to open for male victims of domestic violence.

Jose Linnane, 67, screamed "like an animal" when police told her her son Simon Gilchrist had been murdered at his flat in York in 2004.

The 23-year-old's abusive fiancée Caroline Mawhood stabbed him in the heart after she came home from a night of drinking.

Mrs Linnane is now desperately trying to prevent further deaths by calling for new refuges to open.

London does not have a single refuge for male victims of domestic violence, according to the charity ManKind.

Mrs Linnane, from York, told the Mirror: "It makes me spit feathers there's not a single refuge for men in London.'

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