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'There was a time when The Lancet was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished medical journals. But that was before it took to publishing articles like the one written by Prof Sarah Hawkes and Prof Kent Buse in the latest issue, suggesting that the "manosphere" and toxic masculinity are a public health hazard on a par with the tobacco industry.

The pair, co-founders of Global 50/50, a "gender justice think tank" in Cambridge, argue that manosphere content on sites like Instagram and TikTok has "normalised and amplified" misogyny. They say this has contributed to sexual violence and aggression against women, and increased isolation in men, and is, therefore, a public health hazard.

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'What happens when a woman decides to dedicate her voice, time and energy to a conversation that society often finds uncomfortable? For Halima Layeni, the answer is simple: a movement begins.

In a world where men are frequently expected to be strong, suppress their emotions and deal with their struggles silently, Halima is challenging that narrative. Through her advocacy, she is making room for conversations about men’s mental health, emotional well-being and the importance of seeking support.

Halima is a Men’s Mental Health Advocate and the Founder and Executive Director of the Life After Abuse Foundation (LAAF), a non-profit organisation committed to providing education, mentorship and mental health support to boys and men across the world.

Her journey is rooted in a powerful belief that mental health support should not be limited by gender and that men, too, deserve safe spaces to speak, heal and receive help without judgement.'

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'One of the great sleights of hand in American politics has been the replacement of economic inequality with a never-ending competition for victimhood. And feminism helped lay the groundwork for it. By framing the relationship between men and women primarily as one of oppressors and the oppressed, particularly within radical feminism, the movement helped popularize a political framework in which group identity determined who held power, who suffered under it, and who was entitled to moral authority. Women were the oppressed, men were the oppressors, and the struggle for equality was increasingly understood through this division.

The various strands of feminism may have disagreed about the causes of women’s subordination, but they largely agreed on one thing: women were an oppressed sex class, and men were their oppressors. Whether history actually supports that sweeping characterization is another matter.

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'Perhaps the most chilling aspect of her research, Bates says, was discovering that this online hatred of women was filtering down to children, with boys who have not long entered their teenage years denouncing feminism in school playgrounds across Britain.

Before COVID, Bates would visit around two schools a week in her work to teach children about gender equality. Previously, she says even pupils who were initially skeptical about sexism would engage in debate but over the last two years, there has been a shift. Suddenly boys were showing up to her sessions parroting the same myths and misconceptions she recognized from the many hours spent trawling online women-hating forums, using an undercover alter-ego, Alex. Some were as young as 12.

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'A new drive to support women and girls and tackle misogyny is in line for government investment, as the Chancellor, John Healey, and Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson, announce the first misogyny prevention fund.

The Chancellor will provide a £15 million injection to the Office for the Impact Economy (OIE) to be invested in schemes over 3 years that could include mentoring for young people, workplace training and communications campaigns to improve outcomes and safety for women and girls across the UK.

The fund is expected to be confirmed in the 2026 Budget on Wednesday 28 October.

The fund will underpin Bridget Phillipson’s misogyny prevention taskforce, demonstrating this government’s commitment to backing up words with action.

The investment will form the basis for work with corporate partners and philanthropists to unlock additional match funding and ultimately multiply its reach.'

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'In a remarkable article published October 29, 2026, in The Lancet, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, authors Sarah Hawkes and Kent Buse make this extraordinary claim:

“The manosphere, a diffuse commercial ecosystem and loose collection of online communities united by shared beliefs about masculinity, misogyny, and male victimisation, is an under-recognised determinant of health harms.”

Think about that. The manosphere is now being described as a public-health harm. Not just a collection of websites where men talk about their problems, but something that supposedly damages people’s health. And as we will see, the authors make this claim while admitting that they have very little solid evidence that the manosphere actually causes these harms.'

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'A Massachusetts jury awarded former MIT biologist Dr. David Sabatini a $6 million defamation victory over sexual misconduct claims, setting the stage for cross-appeals as both legal teams prepare to take the case to a higher court.

Dr. Kristin Knouse, the former colleague whose sexual misconduct allegations dismantled Sabatini's American academic career, is challenging the October verdict. Her decision triggered a battle over legal consequences surrounding workplace misconduct claims and the authority of campus tribunals.

Knouse’s attorney, Ellen Zucker, believes that the $6 million verdict could potentially stop female scientists from reporting misconduct, claiming the jury's decision reflects a society that refuses to believe women who challenge powerful men.

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'Half that institution’s natural customer base had quietly stopped turning up, over about fifteen years. Nobody went looking for them. Nobody asked why. Nobody appears to have treated it as a problem at all.

In the early 1970s men were the clear majority of students on American campuses. Today they’re around 42%, and women are close to 60%. When the enrolment decline was broken down, men accounted for the overwhelming bulk of it — not a share, the majority of the entire national drop.

That isn’t demographic drift. Demographics don’t selectively remove one half of a population. That’s a boycott, conducted without a single meeting, by several million people who never discussed it once.'

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'Stuart Brazell had already given birth to two boys when she convinced her husband to try for a third baby — certain that this time she’d finally have the daughter she’d always dreamed of.

Brazell envisioned the little girl so vividly that during sound baths, she imagined them running together through a lavender field.

But when she learned she was expecting another son, the Los Angeles mom was devastated.

“I just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed,” Brazell recalled.

Once considered the coveted family heir and the one to carry the family name, baby boys are getting a decidedly less warm reception in some corners of modern parenthood.

Amid fraught conversations about masculinity, gender roles and the challenges of raising sons, research suggests the age-old preference for boys may be losing its grip.

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'The manosphere and online misogyny should be treated as a public health issue by the government, in the same way as smoking and ultra-processed foods, a new report says.

Authors of a paper in The Lancet argue that misogynistic influencers are a public health threat, driving rising mental distress, violence against women and girls and male isolation. The solution, the experts say, is for governments, schools, health services and social media companies to work together to address the harms they cause.

“Progress on women’s rights is facing substantial obstacles in many settings,” the paper says. “In the current era of democratic backsliding, along with a coordinated rise in anti-gender and anti-rights movements and deliberate obstruction of the implementation of gender equality policies in a quarter of countries worldwide, misogynistic prejudices are widespread: almost nine in 10 people hold at least one fundamental bias against women.”

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'The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that men can also be victims of sexual violence, underscoring that the law must protect all victims of abuse regardless of gender.

In a 17-page decision, the SC En Banc affirmed that while women have historically suffered sexual violence by men, the law must be adaptable to also recognize that men can also be victims of perpetrators.'

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'Over the past fifty years, boys and young men have steadily disengaged from school, work, and broader society. They’re falling behind academically, struggling with loneliness and isolation, and facing rising rates of substance abuse and suicide.

This 45-minute documentary draws on the influential work of Richard V. Reeves’ “Of Boys and Men”, illuminating these challenges through powerful data and compelling personal stories. Many of us have experienced these issues first-hand, but it can be difficult to talk about them. It’s not an either-or choice: caring more about boys and men does not mean caring less about women and girls.

Set in rural Vermont, the film brings national data to life with engaging animation accompanying lived experience featuring young men, educators, mentors, and trailblazing programs that are working to re-engage boys and young men in their communities and reshape their futures.'

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'Like many other people, I was enthralled by the new movie You Can See Everything. I found it stunningly original, and the three hours never dragged for me. (Before we go any further, there are no spoilers in this review, at least assuming you already know who Elizabeth Holmes is.)

But while watching it, I had a recurring thought: Holmes should not be in prison. To be clear, I do not doubt the jury’s findings of guilt. Nor am I trying to argue she was a naïf, trapped into crime by a cruel and hostile world.

What I did observe in the film, and knew about already, is that she has two small children. Furthermore, although her offenses were egregious—creating and marketing Theranos, a fraudulent blood-testing company—Holmes did not commit nor threaten any violence. The main charges that held up in court were wire fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, or in more commonsense terms, defrauding her investors of hundreds of millions of dollars.'

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'The Male Exodus has already hit Japan. Is America next?

Japan's declining birth rates, rising numbers of single men, empty schools, and struggling universities may be a warning of what's coming to the United States.

Between 2002 and 2020, Japan closed approximately 450 public schools per year. Today, nearly 60% of Japanese private universities struggle to fill their freshman enrollment quotas. Meanwhile, the United States faces its own demographic crisis: declining birth rates, a growing gender gap in higher education, and the college enrollment cliff.

What happens when millions of men stop dating, marrying, and starting families? And what happens to universities, communities, and the economy when the next generation never arrives?'

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'A Massachusetts jury recently awarded scientist David Sabatini $6 million and rejected the sexual-misconduct claims that had ended his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and shuttered his research laboratory at the Whitehead Institute. The jury’s seven women and six men brought a measure of objectivity and decency to the facts that the leaders of MIT and Whitehead could not.

Sabatini’s case is a perfect example how DEI and the rest of the left’s political crusades are so destructive to America. The verdict vindicates Sabatini, who has long maintained that his accuser, Kristin Knouse, had lied. But the legal fight took years of his life and nearly ruined him financially. And it shouldn’t be the end of the story. The trial exposed how thin — and how rotten — MIT’s and Whitehead’s case against Sabatini had been all along. MIT and Whitehead owe the public a reckoning. The Trump administration must investigate MIT and Whitehead.'