Article here. Only thing stopping women from being included in Selective Service is conservatives of both sexes. They need to face facts. Excerpt:

'Nearly four years into Russia’s invasion, women here are increasingly taking on combat roles once reserved for men. Ukraine’s struggle to source personnel has forced its military to change. By early this year, more than 70,000 women had enlisted in Ukraine’s military — up 20 percent since 2022. Around 5,500 of those currently serve in combat roles.

But Daria’s crew is the first in Ukraine’s national guard to operate entirely without men.

She and the four women under her command drive their own vehicle, carry their own equipment, build their own explosives and launch armed drones along the southeastern front.'

Article here. This is why I advise young men in particular either to avoid dating altogether or be very careful who you date, if you must. The typical young woman isn't a fit romantic partner these days. Excerpt:

'These stories reflect a shift among young women in which more and more of them are “quiet-quitting” these relationships. Women are now 23% less likely to want to date than men, not because they don’t care, but because they feel they’ve invested too much emotional labor without support in return.

In intimate relationships, young women are taking on a disproportionate load of invisible emotional labor, often supporting men through intense feelings of failure and isolation from friends. Many men described feeling “weird or like a waste of time” when opening up to male friends, instead reserving vulnerability for their relationships with women.

While men consider this unburdening to women a “natural part” of their relationships, those same women describe it as work— what researchers at Stanford University call “mankeeping.”'

Essay here. Long but very good. Excerpt:

'This war between the sexes and total breakdown of sexuality is incomprehensible to anyone over a certain age, with the birth-year cutoff sitting somewhere between 1991 and 1997. It has been nothing short of a Cultural Revolution, a complete break from previous sexual morality and conception. The self-conception of, and interactions between, men and women in 1995 are utterly alien to those of 2025. This all-encompassing nature makes it difficult to pin down exactly what has changed, which makes it even more difficult to pin down the why behind these changes—much less their second- and third-order effects.
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Article here. Excerpt:

'The first project we’ll look at is a study from Great Britain on teen relationship violence. The research included both a written survey and in-depth interviews with selected teens. The survey results were clear: both boys and girls experienced relationship violence.

Yet, the public ad campaign that followed told a very different story. It focused entirely on helping girls as victims and portrayed boys only as perpetrators. This stunning disregard for male victims — and for the girls identified as perpetrators — stood in sharp contrast to the study’s own data. Those numbers showed that many boys were victims of teen relationship violence, and that girls, too, could be perpetrators.

Let’s start at the beginning — with how this issue first caught my attention.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Ofcom has urged tech companies to take “practical action against online misogynistic abuse, pile-ons, stalking and intimate image abuse”.

The communications regulator, which is responsible for ensuring everything from our postal service to our TV responsibly delivers safe content, has suggested that these groups need to go “above and beyond what is needed to comply with their legal duties under the Online Safety Act” to achieve true digital equality.

They point out that 99% of intimate images reported to the Revenge Porn Helpline were of women; 99% of deepfake image abuse involves women; nearly 70% of boys aged 11-14 have been exposed to misogynistic content online.

Those are only a few of the issues the regulator raised before announcing their “five-point plan to hold sites and apps to account on protecting women and girls online”.'

Article here. It's the thin edge, I think. Excerpt:

'France will introduce a voluntary military service of 10 months beginning next summer, becoming the latest EU country to hint at war preparations in the face of a growing threat from Russia.

President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed the expansion of the military, focusing on volunteers mostly aged 18 to 19.

‘A new national service will be introduced, gradually starting next summer,’ he said during a speech to troops in Varces-Allieres-et-Risset.

This makes France the first European heavyweight – and the first nation that has nuclear capabilities – to reintroduce military service.'

Article here. Men work longer hours and *gasp* get paid for it. Oh my! Fix it for women's sake! Excerpt:

'Men are earning on average A$9,753 more than women each year in the form of performance bonuses, allowances and overtime pay.

That’s according to the latest gender pay gap data released on Thursday by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. It covers more than 8,000 private companies for 2024–25, employing more than 5.4 million workers across Australia.

The overall gender pay gap fell to 21.1%, compared to 21.8% in 2023–24. But the gap in discretionary pay makes up a big chunk of the total gender pay gap of $28,356.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A landmark ruling by the UK Supreme Court could trigger multiple legal challenges by men convicted of sexual offences in Scotland.

Five judges have ruled that Scotland's courts have taken an approach to evidence which risks depriving a defendant of their right to a fair trial.

The Supreme Court had been considering the case of two men, David Daly and Andrew Keir, who were appealing against convictions for rape.

The court dismissed their appeals and said they had received fair trials – but ruled that Scotland's courts should change their approach to the admission of evidence in such cases.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Italy's parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.

The vote coincided with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day designated by the U.N. General Assembly.

The law won bipartisan support from the center-right majority and the center-left opposition in the final vote in the Lower Chamber, passing with 237 votes in favor.

The law, backed by the conservative government of Premier Giorgia Meloni, comes in response to a series of killings and other violence targeting women in Italy. It includes stronger measures against gender-based crimes including stalking and revenge porn.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'For all the time-old fretting over the battle of the sexes, the outcome no one seemed to worry about is this one. The battle is over. But there is no jubilation, because the men have retreated. Back each sex went to their respective trenches to live a life alone and without love.

A new study that surveyed 2,000 British men and women aged 18-45 revealed that men are at an unprecedented crisis point. They have rejected old ideas about masculinity, they desperately want to care for their community and aspire to be tender, involved fathers. Yet they despair of being able to fit into the seemingly contradictory demands made of them by their female romantic partners and society at large, with nearly half considering giving up on love entirely.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Rachel Reeves has said she is “sick of people mansplaining how to be chancellor” to her, days before she unveils her make-or-break Budget.

Hitting back at critics amid growing concern over sweeping tax rises that are expected next week, the chancellor said she is “not going to let them bring me down by undermining my character or my confidence”.

Ms Reeves also admitted the government has “made a couple of unforced errors” but insisted it is “fighting to win”.

But the chancellor failed to give any detail on what she will unveil in the Budget or how she will improve Britain’s ailing public finances, nor did she address the leaks and briefings that have dominated the media landscape in the lead-up to next week’s fiscal event.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'When men can’t get the help they need, they often leave a trail of devastation in their wake. Men represent nearly 80 percent of suicide victims and live roughly six years less than women, driven in part by more risk-taking behaviors, higher rates of smoking and drinking, and lower rates of visiting doctors. They make up the majority of overdoses and the homeless. Google “deaths of despair” and the image results are mostly shadowy images of lonesome men, many with their heads buried in their hands.
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This approach failed to recognize that many men came to therapy from a place of shame. He’d seen enough guys walk into his practice “hanging his head like a dog who knew he did something wrong.” How some were discussing men would only make guys less comfortable coming forward, he said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Imagine, for a moment, what would happen if one group of children lived like this not for a day, but for years. Imagine if the message they heard — from teachers, media, curriculum, and culture — told them that something essential about them was wrong.

Imagine if they were boys.

That’s where we’re headed. But before we get there, we need one more piece of the puzzle.

Because psychologists later discovered that what Elliott demonstrated dramatically in a classroom is also happening quietly inside children every day. They even gave it a name.

It’s called stereotype threat.

And it explains far more about our boys’ struggles — and our cultural blind spots — than most people realize.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'It wasn’t any one incident that convinced Pat*, 55, from Cheshire that she had to leave her husband – just 25 years of feeling taken for granted.

“It was OK while he was working,” she explains. “We both had our separate lives, and he was a workaholic and travelled a lot. But then he retired, and he was under my feet. He was pretty lost, I suppose. But he just undermined me constantly… everyday, he’d say or do something which hurt: forgetting something important to me, not noticing something I had done for him, being negative.

“Each thing in isolation wasn’t that bad… but it built up. I can remember looking at him one day across the breakfast table and thinking, ‘I just can’t do this anymore’.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'Words like empowerment, agency, and choice slip into our sentences without a second thought. They sound wholesome, but they carry a worldview: that morality begins with women’s feelings, that men must prove their virtue, and that harmony means protecting one sex from the other.

It’s not hypocrisy; it’s inheritance. After decades of dominance, feminism has become the cultural air we breathe. Even those who push back against it often do so in its moral vocabulary, defending traditional roles in the same language that once dismantled them. How can we expect to heal the divide between the sexes and create a pro-women landscape for both when all men hear in our voices is more feminism?
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