Article here. Excerpt:

'Feminist and advocacy organisations, such as UK Feminista and Cease, are putting this question to the Labour government, with its breathtakingly ambitious target of halving violence against women and girls. Does the government see the vulnerable women harmed by male sex buyers – one nine-country study found almost seven in 10 prostituted women were suffering from PTSD – as worthy as other female victims? There are encouraging signs; two home office ministers, Diana Johnson and Jess Phillips, are former officers of the APPG (all-party parliamentary group) on commercial sexual exploitation, which has recommended that prostitution should be recognised as a form of violence against women and that the buying of sex or profiting from the prostitution of another person should be criminalised. Phillips last month pledged the government would look at all levers to reduce the demand for commercial sexual services to protect women from exploitation.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Imagine you didn’t have to sit next to anyone you don’t want to on an airplane. Would you choose babies — those wailing little things — people who hog both armrests, or snore, or perhaps the poorly socialized who, profoundly lacking in self-awareness, see their plane neighbour as a hostage they can hold a one-sided conversation with for five hours? All of the above? How about men? Any man. All men. Would you avoid them?

Article here. Excerpt:

'As a feminist, Whippman said she found the #MeToo movement energizing and validating. "It was like, finally, women had a voice. We were allowed to call out this kind of bad behaviour that we all knew about and we were all aware of, but … we didn't have the social permission or the vocabulary to call it out."

"But I think as a mother of boys, I just felt very conflicted and defensive," she said. "It was like, everyone's talking about this gender as if they're the enemy and they're harmful and they're terrible. But these are my children they're talking about."

That got her wondering, she said, if instead of striving to define positive versus toxic masculinity, parents should focus on simply raising good people — regardless of gender.'

Article here. Flip the sexes; a man would get 10-20 years for the same crime. Excerpt:

'A woman who had an "obsession for sex with young boys" has been sentenced to prison after engaging in sexual activities with two 13-year-old boys in her son's bedroom.

Natalie Harris was handed a four-year jail term after confessing to four counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child. She broke down in tears as she received her sentence for the incidents that happened in Waterlooville in November 2022.

Initially, the boys denied any involvement until one of them confided in their mother and revealed that he had filmed the incident. The mother of one of the boys told Portsmouth Crown Court that Harris had "taken away his childhood".'

Article here. I can see the kids' POV in this one case. A father with mood/temper problems is scary and may well be an unfit parent. Plus the approach taken seems excessive: separating the CP (ie, the mother) from the kids entirely. All in all, it's just sad. Excerpt:

'The treatment the Nielsens underwent is part of an industry of intensive “reunification therapy” that has sprung up during the past decade and is ordered by family courts to settle custody fights. Services like Building Family Bridges, where the Nielsens were forced to go, use videos and exercises to try to break a child’s pattern of rejecting a parent. The child is then ordered to live with that parent for an extended period and barred from having contact with the other parent. A battle has erupted over the approach in courtrooms and statehouses across the country.

Video here. Good vid on how one woman overcame her misandry. Share it with your local feminist!

Article here. Excerpt:

'It's a trend experts say will drag on the economy and could take years to fix, mainly because men have already been dropping out of the workforce for decades.

According to Carol Graham, a senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institute, the labor force participation rate of prime working-age men has been declining over the last twenty years. Today, 10% of men aged 25-54 don't have a job and aren't looking for one, more than triple the percentage recorded in 1955, when just 3% were out of the workforce, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

That amounts to around 7 million prime working-age men who aren't working — and has introduced a host of problems for the economy, leaving key industries understaffed and adding to the strain on government services and social safety nets, Graham and other experts told Business Insider.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The way Randall Dill tells it, he was a 'model employee' for IBM, nurturing relationships with the Pentagon and other big spenders.

Then came the diversity targets, and the Michigander was kicked out of the computing giant so it could hire more women and minorities, he says.

Worse still — says a lawsuit filed with a Michigan US District Court on Wednesday — Dill's bosses didn't tell him straight why he was being axed.

Instead, they said he wasn't bringing in enough business — even though that was never his job, the suit says.

In reality, the papers say, the managers wanted to bump up their bonuses by culling white and Asian male staff and recruit more women and other minorities.'

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Arvind Krishna leaked video: IBM Chief in soup after Internal Meeting clip goes viral

Article here. Excerpt:

'A paper by Dr. Murray Straus addressed the issue of feminists distorting domestic violence data. He identified the seven primary methods they used as being:

To suppress Evidence

To avoid obtaining data inconsistent with the Patriarchal Dominance Theory

To cite only studies that show Male Perpetration

To conclude that results support Feminist beliefs when they do not

To create “evidence” by citation

To obstruct publication of articles and obstruct funding research that might contradict the idea that male dominance is the cause of PV (see this post)

To harass, threaten, and penalize researchers who produce evidence that contradicts feminist beliefs'

YouTube video here. The recent creation of the office in Australia is discussed in all its ludicrousness.

Paul Elam has thoughtfully posted some videos from the ICMI24 conference on YouTube. You can find them by going to YouTube and searching on "ICMI24". All of them are good. One that especially caught my ear had to do with the connection between population control and feminism, here. Enjoy!

Article here. Excerpt:

'Researchers say the United States is dealing with an “epidemic” of male loneliness. Though, as Los Angeles Times columnist Jean Guerrero notes, shocking numbers of men feel that no one “knows” them. Worse, Guerrero says the data shows that men are “less skilled than women at making friends.” This is the case despite a long effort to socialize boys. In fact, according to Guerrero, “Young men, who tend to be more progressive and are presumably more comfortable with intimacy than their elders, are … the most isolated.” How can this be?

Article here. Excerpt:

'It's a question of fairness in parenting.

A federal lawsuit — which could set new precedent — names judges and the Tennessee Attorney General on the issue of child custody.

That lawsuit argues that state law is unfairly biased against fathers, and is unconstitutional.

Historically, often with good reason, judges have favored the mother in child custody cases.

But times have changed, and one middle Tennessee man says the law unfairly excludes fathers from their children's lives.

Dr. Scott Wilson loves his daughter.

He and her mother never married, but they lived together since their child was born.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Democratic Senator Chris Murphy argued that Democrats had ceded the conversation on masculinity to Republicans. “We certainly should believe that masculinity can exist side by side with feminism, but we’ve got to acquire a language to talk to boys and men about the future of maleness, and right now we don’t have it,” Murphy said. “I do not think the majority of men believe that women should be removed from the workplace, but they notice when Democrats aren’t talking about addressing some of the real crises that exist in male identity today.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Frontline police officers and detectives routinely show courage when confronting the violent, dangerous and heinous. So you’d think police chiefs might be willing to really ask themselves whether their force is as impartial as many of them claim.

Putting aside relatively complex operational matters, such as the policing of protests and the response to crime itself, perhaps we can just examine the track record of the administration in some forces.

In just the last five years, British policing has plenty of examples of veering off course.

We’ve seen Cheshire Constabulary found guilty of discrimination on the basis of not just race, but sexual orientation and sex too. The force rejected a prospective police officer because he was – put simply – a white heterosexual man.