Germany announces new "feminist foreign policy"

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'Germany's centre-left government on Wednesday announced new feminist guidelines to shape its diplomacy and development work including the creation of a new role for an "ambassador for feminist foreign policy".

Germany will lobby to ensure women's concerns are more in focus worldwide, that women are better represented and that the country's generous development funds are allocated more to projects that tackle gender inequality, according to the guidelines.

Given Germany's clout as Europe's biggest economy and a key diplomatic actor, the move gives fresh momentum to the feminist foreign policy movement, which was pioneered by a leftist Swedish government in 2014.

Such a policy has been embraced in recent years by other countries like Canada, France, Mexico and Spain - although Sweden abandoned it last year after a shift to a right-wing government.'

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"Australia's rental crisis hits women particularly hard"

The hundreds of homeless men in any major Australian city, can continue to rot in the gutter. Link here. Video description:

' Rental property vacancies are at record lows, so competition is so fierce it can be a game of life and death. It is becoming particularly hard for women of all ages and in all circumstances.'

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UK: Bodmin mum-of-eight made false rape claim to get partner's attention

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'A mum of eight has been jailed for making an entirely false rape claim against someone she barely knew. Amee Bettison, 29, also pursued the lie made initially to get the attention of her partner.

Bettison, of Pool Street in Bodmin, appeared at Truro Crown Court for sentence having pleaded guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Prosecuting the case, Ed Bailey described how on October 13 2016 a Mr Roberts contacted the police to report this his former partner, Bettison, had been raped by a local 28-year-old.'

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Marilyn Manson Accuser Recants Rape Allegations, Says Evan Rachel Wood ‘Pressured’ Her

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'An ex-girlfriend of Marilyn Manson, who had alleged the rock star sexually abused her, has now walked back the claims, saying the rape allegations were “false.”

Ashley Morgan Smithline has filed a declaration of support defending Manson and renouncing past accusations she’d made against the embattled musician, NBC News reported. The declaration, which is part of a 2022 defamation lawsuit against actor and Manson accuser, Evan Rachel Wood, was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday.

Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, has long denied the allegations made by Wood and other alleged victims.'

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Eton teacher who was sacked for refusing to take down YouTube lecture questioning 'toxic masculinity' warns Andrew Tate has tapped into 'malaise'

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'A former Eton teacher who was sacked in 2021 over a controversial video which appeared to argue against toxic masculinity has said influencer Andrew Tate has tapped into young men's 'malaise' due to current teaching.

Will Knowland, 37, was removed from his role at the prestigious £46,000-a-year Berkshire school and referred to the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) after refusing to take down a lecture challenging the theory of 'toxic masculinity' from YouTube.

The English teacher, now an online tutor, made the video for his students called The Patriarchy Paradox, which claimed that women would revert to a primitive life without men and stated that 'male aggression is a biological fact'.'

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Why Are So Many Young Men Single And Sexless?

Article here. Predictably, it puts everything on men. No mention of feminism and how it's affected men's choices. Excerpt:

'A recent Pew Research study suggests a tectonic shift in the dating and sex life of men. The study found that among men under 30 years old, over 60 percent are single, almost double that of women in the same age bracket.

Not only are more young men single but their opportunities for developing a relational and sexual repertoire have all but vanished, as levels of sexual intimacy across genders appear to have hit a 30-year low (Lei & South, 2021).
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As young women continued to pursue intimate relationships less intently post-pandemic, men could have increased their relationship skills to close the effort gap. They could have confronted their relative avoidance and challenged the gender norms that made them so anxious about intimacy.'

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Who are America's Uninsured?

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'For those Americans with health insurance, private insurance remains the leading source of coverage, accounting for nearly 70% of the insured 64-years-of-age and under according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Health Statistics Reports. The remaining number of insured gain their coverage through public sources, such as the military. 12.6% of Americans are uninsured.
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One’s sex and education level are highly correlated with the uninsured. Those without a high school degree, for instance, are more likely to be uninsured (36.9%) then they are to be have private insurance (30.7%). Those with a high school diploma or GED are in a much stronger position, with 57.2% holding private insurance and 18% being uninsured.

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ISIS Women Accused of Turning Boys as Young as 13 Into a Human Stud Farm

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'Two boys have come forward to claim they were victims in a twisted plot run by ISIS women that forced at least 10 young teenagers to try to impregnate dozens of women held in a detention center.

“We are being forced to have sex with the ISIS women, to impregnate them,” Ahmet, 13, and Hamid, 14, told a guard at Camp al Hol in northeast Syria, according to Syrian Defense Force officials. “Can you get us out of here?”
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While some of these women want nothing more to do with ISIS, others continue in their violent dedication to the Caliphate—insisting on carrying on ISIS’s distorted Islamic dictates, punishing women who renounce ISIS—and working hard to indoctrinate children whose countries continue to refuse to repatriate them. Some of these ISIS diehard women have refused voluntary repatriation, with their countries of origin allowing them to also refuse repatriation for their children.

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Male, pale and stale?

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'You must have sympathy for the progressive straight white male. He lives in a paradox. On one hand, he is told he has all the privilege the world can offer him. On the other it is demanded that because he has such privilege, he must be silent and make space for others. Whilst he is blamed for most of the injustice in society, he has no way to abdicate his privilege.

He can donate to a progressive cause, post an anti-sexist infographic to his Instagram story, support minority-owned businesses or even chain his whole family together and go on an anti-racism pilgrimage to score BLM brownie points, but it still will not be enough. He can self-flagellate all day long but there is no way for him to receive salvation from the progressive mob.'

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Most young men are single. Most young women are not.

Article here. What's remarkable about this article is its non-anti-male tone, and the fact it actually got printed. Excerpt:

'More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women, signaling a larger breakdown in the social, romantic and sexual life of the American male.

Men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. They stand at the vanguard of an epidemic of declining marriage, sexuality and relationships that afflicts all of young America.
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Scholars say the new era of gender parity has reshaped relationship dynamics, empowering young women and, in many cases, removing young men from the equation.

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Female scholars more likely than male counterparts to be elected to prestigious US scientific societies, finds study

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'Female researchers in mathematics, psychology and economics are 3–15 times more likely to be elected as members of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) or the American Academy of Arts and Sciences than are male counterparts who have similar publication and citation records, a study finds.

The paper finds that since 2019, female researchers have comprised around 40% of new members in both prestigious academies1. Historically, across disciplines in each academy, there have been substantially fewer female researchers than male ones. Before the 1980s, female members comprised less than 10% of total academy membership across all scientific fields.

Lead author David Card, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, says that the boost does not seem to be due to an analogous increase in the number of potentially qualified female candidates for membership.

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Jordan Peterson, dozens of academics attack Ivy League anti-male bias

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'Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychology professor signed onto a Title IX legal complaint against Ivy League school Cornell University claiming anti-male bias.

University of Southern California Ph.D. student Kursat Christoff Pekgoz filed the complaint and more than 185 professors, scholars, and activists signed onto it. The complaint alleges instances of anti-male bias by Cornell, according to documents obtained by Campus Reform.

The 28-page-long document, which was sent to the Department of Justice and the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, includes a “List of Exclusionary Programs” at Cornell. Pekgoz claims these programs discriminate against men. The complaint is predicated mainly on the fact that there are no male-only programs at Cornell, compared to a significant number of university-sponsored female-only programs.'

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A feminist cafe that charged 18% more to men disappears due to lack of customers

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'A feminist cafe in Sydney (Australia), aimed at vegan lesbians and that created controversy for establish a "tax on men" charging them 18% more, will close this Sunday.

The cafe, called Handsome Her, opened its doors in the summer of 2017 and has not lasted two years. It was aimed especially at feminists, lesbians and vegans, and its opening sparked controversy in Australia by charging 18% more to male clients, citing the "wage gap" myth, a thesis formulated by leftist feminism that, on the basis of a statistical manipulation, it affirms that women charge less than men for doing the same jobs: the umpteenth attempt to make them feel oppressed by men. In an ad located at the entrance of the premises, in addition to reporting that "tax on men", the local also established that women had preference at the time of sitting.'

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Seoul removes women-only parking spaces in gender policy reversal

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'South Korea's capital Seoul is removing women-only parking spaces, 14 years after they were introduced as a protection for women.

The women-only spots had been instated in 2009 after a spate of violent crimes in basement car parks.

But city officials say such spaces aren't necessary anymore and will be converted to family parking spots.

Critics say their removal is just the latest example of anti-feminist policies in South Korea.

Chung Eun-jung, 55, said she uses the female spaces whenever she can find one: "I feel safer when I use them, that there are not so many dangerous people close by."

"When I get in the car, I always lock the door immediately," she said, adding that she was well aware of car park crimes, often reported in the news.

Her daughter said she was upset that her mother would feel less safe.
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But male pilot Cho Young-jae thinks the women-only spaces need to go.

"These spaces do discriminate against men", the 34-year-old said.

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‘Rich, white, anti-housing men’: Los Gatos planning commissioner censured for ‘divisive language’

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'Los Gatos Town Council censured a planning commissioner for using “divisive language” in a letter to the state, in which she said “rich, white, anti-housing men” organized the referendum on the town’s plan for future growth.

Council voted unanimously Feb. 15 to censure Commissioner Kylie Clark, an action that serves as a formal disapproval of her comments.

Clark emailed the state Department of Housing and Community Development last November to notify leaders of the referendum on the town’s 2040 General Plan, and said it was “paid for and passed by the rich, white, anti-housing men in our town.”

Members of the public complained to town staff about Clark’s email, saying it negatively impacted the town during the Housing Element process, represented the town poorly and used “racist” and “biased” language.'

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