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'The surprising thing is not that a sitting president decided to abandon his reelection campaign. Or that his party’s leading candidate to replace him is a woman.

No, the astonisher is that America has never had a female commander in chief.

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'In an audit of national monuments, the Monument Lab found that most monuments commemorate — surprise! — white men.

Who from history gets cast in bronze — and who doesn’t — reflects a legacy of racism and sexism in America’s public spaces. Now, a project from the city of Boston is taking aim at the landscape of monuments across the city.

It’s called Un-Monument, short for “Un-monument | Re-monument | De-Monument: Transforming Boston.” There’s a playful, experimental spirit to the initiative, which consists of free temporary monuments, partnerships with arts and cultural organizations across the city and free public programming.'

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'On Sunday, July 28, at 11 a.m. Michael Kimmel will present “Angry White Men: Masculinity on the Extreme Right” for the Monadnock Summer Lyceum at Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church, 25 Main St.

Kimmel will reference his book “Angry White Men” and other research data to look at anger’s causes and explore more-positive possibilities.

Kimmel earned his BA from Vassar, a Master of Arts from Brown, and his doctorate from UC Berkeley. He taught at Bryant College, UC Berkeley, the State University of New York and Rutgers. He is founder and editor of the academic journal Men and Masculinities and a national spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism.'

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US women’s rights campaigner accused of sexual harassment

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'I wrote this report when I was the vice-chair of the Maryland Commission for Men’s Health 2008-2010. This was one of three reports that The Maryland Department of Health tried to deep six. It took us a year to track down what they had done and the reports finally made their way to the legislators. (The story of this event was a chapter in Janice Fiamengo’s excellent book Sons of Feminism: Men Have Their Say.) They really didn’t want this to get out and they succeeded since it was a year late. It was written with the idea of giving legislators a good sense of the bigoted path the domestic violence industry had taken in Maryland. It continues to be a good summary of how the feminists have built a lethal anti-male industry. It is amazing and shocking how little has changed since that time. Sad too.

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'On July 10, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) of the Legal Insurrection Foundation filed a civil rights complaint against the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) that alleges that the eligibility criteria of RIT’s Women in STEM Award discriminates against biological males who identify as males.

The Women in STEM Award at RIT is a scholarship valued at $76,000 designed to support outstanding high school students with a demonstrated interest in areas like science, computing, robotics, and math.

However, the award is exclusively open to “outstanding female, female-identifying, or non-binary student[s]” – effectively excluding males who identify as males, according to EPP. The civil rights organization alleges that this exclusion violates Title IX as interpreted by the Biden administration’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and RIT’s nondiscrimination policies.'

Article here. Gee, is there a version that allows ppl to pick the ethnicity of their seat-mates? Oh, but that'd be racist. This isn't sexist at all! Excerpt:

'But now, one airline is making it easier to calm anxieties when it comes to flying, becoming the first to allow women to request not to be seated next to a man.

A low-cost airline based in India, IndiGo, has announced a pioneering new policy allowing women to view the gender of the passengers sitting around them before booking.

They’ll be able to choose to sit next to a woman if they’d prefer, which they’ll be able to do by viewing the seat plan ahead of flying.

Where women are booked on, their seats will flash pink – yes, somewhat of a cliché but the policy itself is a watershed moment when it comes to passenger safety.
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Critically, men will not be privy to this information when booking, so they won’t be able to use it to deliberately position themselves next to a woman.

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'UK police chiefs have warned that young men are being radicalised into extreme misogyny online by influencers such as Andrew Tate. Speaking as the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published a report into violence against women and girls, which it is calling a “national emergency’’, senior police officer Maggie Blyth has said that Tate and others like him are radicalising boys into extreme misogyny in a way that is “quite terrifying”.

The report estimates that at least one in every 12 women will be a victim of violence every year: around two million women. Nearly 3,000 crimes of violence against women are recorded each day, though police chiefs are calling it the “tip of the iceberg” because the figures do not include unreported crimes.'

Whatifalthist discusses political poles and the influence of toxic femininity in history on them, though this isn't his main point. YouTube video here.

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'It is easy to identify many of the prominent feminist women throughout history—Mary Wollstonecraft, Betty Friedan, and Judith Butler—yet it is men, beginning with Charles Fourier, who have directed many of feminism’s key developments. Indeed, what is often called “feminism” cannot be separated from ideologically driven men who saw an opportunity to take advantage of or to cultivate detached and vulnerable women ripe for redirection toward their own social and political goals.
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Over time, a movement that claimed to strive for equality between men and women unmasked itself as a movement that sought to make women like men, and even deny the reality of meaningful biological differences altogether. While this is obvious in second-wave and third-wave feminism, these beliefs were present from the beginning of first-wave feminism, too.'

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'A feminist professor will lead a shake-up of the national curriculum for schools in England, the Government has announced.

Prof Becky Francis, the chief executive of learning charity the Education Endowment Foundation, will chair a wholesale review of the school syllabus “to breathe new life into our outdated curriculum”, the Education Secretary said on Friday.

The review will scrutinise all aspects of teaching material for pupils aged five to 18 and will “look closely at the key challenges to attainment for young people,” the Department for Education (DfE) said.'

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'Teaching has remained a predominantly female profession.

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority said seven out of every 10 teachers identified as female, a number that increased to more than eight out of every 10 in primary school ranks.

There have been ongoing concerns about the rise of misogyny in Australian classrooms, led by online influencers such as Andrew Tate.
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From having a 16-year-old female student tell a male classmate that, "Miss wants to f*ck you", to Year 9 students projecting pornography on a whiteboard behind her while she took the roll, Ms Duffus said she had seen it all.

She said at times it made her feel like an emotional prostitute.

"I was accepting large sums of money to be the teenagers’ punching bag for the day," she said in an essay on her experience.

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'This new guidance that makes clear men who self-identity as women are not female and should not be recruited as such. This makes it fairer on the women who apply and the people who rely on a woman being in that role for reasons of privacy, dignity and safety.

However this new guidance also says men who change their legal status to female by obtaining a GRC can be recruited into a female role.

This highlights the absurdity of a law that expects a woman to waive her need for privacy or safety simply because a man gets a certificate.
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This new guidance is a step in the right direction. It bars the majority of men who identity as women from getting jobs reserved for women. Most transgender males do not have a GRC. But it leaves open a loophole for a small number to access these jobs with a GRC. More progress is needed before this is truly fair on women.'

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'Women-only music festival Burning Woman criticised over refund troubles

Burning Woman, a women’s music and arts festival which was due to be held in Lincolnshire this month, has been criticised over refund troubles.

The festival cancelled its 2024 edition after announcing that it had been the target of harassment online and also faced financial struggles ahead of its event, which was due to take place from July 19 - 21 at Belvoir Castle, close to Grantham.

“This was not an easy decision,” organisers wrote in an Instagram post. “We have poured our hearts and souls into creating a transformative and empowering event for you, especially amidst the challenges of the pandemic, last-minute venue change, and the rising cost of living.”

Burning Woman claimed that it had been subject to “relentless harassment from an anonymous group of women” who “spread untruths about the company”.'

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'A number of European countries halted mandatory conscription after the end of the Cold War, but several nations – particularly in Scandinavia and the Baltics – have reintroduced it in recent years, largely because of the Russian threat. Failure to enlist can result in fines or even jail time in some countries.

Latvia is the latest to implement conscription. Compulsory military service  was reintroduced on January 1 this year, after being abolished in 2006. Male citizens will be put up for the draft within 12 months of reaching the age of 18, or graduation for those still in the education system.

“At first there was a lot of pushback,” said Arturs Pīlācis, a 20-year-old student. He’s yet to go up for the draft but voluntarily went on a month-long military course.'

Comedian Bill Burr popped up on my Facebook feed with this. He hits the nail on the head about things like alimony. You'll probably need to have a Facebook account to access.