Article here. When women are targeted, it's called "gendercide" or "femicide". When men are targeted, it's business as usual. Excerpt:

'Militants who killed 26 people in India's Kashmir region separated the men from the women and children and asked the men their names before shooting them at close range, security officials and survivors said on Wednesday.

About 1,000 tourists and 300 local service providers were in the Baisaran Valley - known as mini Switzerland for its lush hilltop meadow, surrounded by dense pine forests - when three gunmen launched the Tuesday attack, the worst in India in nearly two decades.'

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'More than 5,800 teachers were polled as part of the survey by the NASUWT teaching union, and nearly three in five (59%) said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils' behaviour.

Andrew Tate was referenced by a number of teachers who took part in the survey, who said he had negative influence on male pupils.

One teacher said she'd had 10-year-old boys "refuse to speak to [her]...because [she is] a woman".

Another teacher said "the Andrew Tate phenomena had a huge impact on how [pupils at an all-boys school] interacted with females and males they did not see as 'masculine'".

While another respondent to the survey said their school had experienced some incidents of "derogatory language towards female staff...as a direct result of Andrew Tate videos".'

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'In the present online social landscape, while misogyny is a well-established issue, misandry remains significantly underexplored. In an effort to rectify this discrepancy and better understand the phenomenon of gendered hate speech, we analyze four openly declared misogynistic and misandric Reddit communities, examining their characteristics at a linguistic, emotional, and structural level. We investigate whether it is possible to devise substantial and systematic discrepancies among misogynistic and misandric groups when heterogeneous factors are taken into account. Our experimental evaluation shows that no systematic differences can be observed when a double perspective, both male-to-female and female-to-male, is adopted, thus suggesting that gendered hate speech is not exacerbated by the perpetrators’ gender, indeed being a common factor of noxious communities.'

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'Online "masculinity" content is mainstream and wide-ranging — far broader than the toxic Andrew Tate style manosphere or incel culture touched on in the hit Netflix series Adolescence.

It includes fitness and wellbeing, relationship and career advice, personal discipline and self-improvement.

A new report out today shows more than two thirds (68 per cent) of young Australian men engage with masculinity influencers and it's shaping their identity.

The Movember Institute of Men's Health surveyed more than 3,000 men aged 16 to 25 across Australia, the UK and the US to find out what impact such content was having on their lives.

"We came in with a health lens. That is the key here. No one has done that," said Dr Zac Seidler, global director of men's health research at Movember.

He said getting rid of content on social media because it was "dangerous" was unhelpful, as there was no causal evidence to suggest that was the answer.'

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'The former sorority girl who attacked a Muslim Uber driver with pepper spray in New York City received a shockingly light punishment after taking a plea deal.

Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, was filmed spraying mace on 45-year-old Shohel Mahmud during a hate-fueled late-night ride in Midtown Manhattan on July 31.

Disturbing footage captured Guilbeault stepping toward the driver's seat and unleashing the pepper spray on Mahmud.

She was charged with a hate crime for the assault but vehemently denied her actions were motivated by race.

Guilbeault appeared subdued in court on Monday. She wore a buttoned-up cream sweater and black pants, and her long hair was tucked behind her ears.

She entered a plea deal to a lesser charge of second-degree aggravated harassment at the hearing and was granted minor consequences for the attack.

Video here. Aired 4 days ago on Sky News.

Video here. You need a Facebook account, probably, to see it. #DontBelieveAllWomen

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'Men opting out of college isn’t a new phenomenon: Women have outnumbered men in undergraduate enrollment for about 40 years, and the gap continues to widen. Almost half of women age 25-34 have earned a bachelor’s degree, according to Pew Research Center data; for men the rate is 37%. Between 2011 and 2022, the number of Americans attending college dropped by 1.2 million, with men accounting for almost the entirety of that drop.

As US men forgo higher education, the demographic group as a whole has lost ground in other areas too. Working-class men today are less likely to be employed than they were four decades ago, their inflation-adjusted wages have barely budged in more than 50 years, they’re less prone to get married or have children, and an increasing number report having no close friends. Men are also four times more likely than women to die by suicide. Data show that men age 18-30 spent an average of 6.6 nonsleeping hours alone each day in 2023, 18% more than they did in 2019 and over an hour more than women did, according to a report by the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.'

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'In Australia, it’s estimated almost one in five boys (18.8%) experience child sexual abuse. And at least one in 16 men (6.1%) experience sexual violence after age 15.

However, many boys and men don’t tell others about these experiences. Studies show men are less likely to disclose sexual abuse and assaults than women.

It also takes boys and men longer to first disclose sexual abuse or assaults. On average, men wait 21 years before telling anyone about being abused.

This is a problem because talking to others is often an important part of understanding and recovering from these traumatic experiences. When boys and men don’t discuss these experiences, it risks their mental health problems and isolation becoming worse and they don’t get the support they need.'

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'Let’s be clear: Misogyny is real. An angry man—or worse, an angry young man—can be incredibly dangerous. There’s no denying the threat misogynistic violence poses. But while the world shouts about misogyny, barely anyone asks the harder question:

Why are boys becoming more misogynistic?

Why, in a supposedly progressive, inclusive, and compassionate society, are we seeing this rise?

The answer, I believe, is uncomfortable but simple:

Misandry is not just tolerated today—it’s culturally embedded, emotionally normalized, and increasingly rewarded. And misandry fuels modern misogyny. If misogyny is fire, misandry is the oxygen. It keeps it alive. It feeds it. It isolates boys until they burn.'

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'We have not had a single healthy mainstream identity movement since that time. All, including feminism/the women's movement and all of the movements for racial equality, culminating in the Woke movements of today, have been founded on a moral dichotomy, a dividing of the world into guilty oppressors/perpetrators and innocent victims, a division built not on behavior but on identity. This founding analysis builds moral inequality in at the movement foundations; since victims are morally innocent and oppressors are guilty, the purported vision of equality is rendered unobtainable, forever out of reach. What equality can exist between oppressors and victims? Such movements are pathological and that is why, despite all of the equality legislation and the trillions of dollars spent on amelioration programs, we still hear constantly that equality remains far away.'

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'Some commentators claim that feminism is a dangerous ideology. But I, for one, have never found their arguments especially convincing. In this essay, I’d like to address the same question, but by evaluating feminism against the “red flags” just mentioned – starting with worrying signs and moving through increasingly dangerous ones. I’m not suggesting feminism is committing genocide, but it is time to ask whether it shows signs of travelling a dangerous path. After all, even the well-intentioned may stray.'

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'My initial suspicion, before watching the series, was that the motivation behind this rather nasty series was to propagandize the UK public into support for even more draconian censorship laws – with “the manosphere” being particularly targeted. The recent Online Safety Act was not draconian enough for many of the usual suspects. However, after watching the series I see that “the manosphere” theme was not presented very forcibly and was only one of several potential motivations for the killing. Another theme was the father’s explosive temper, which the scene with the female psychologist revealed was shared by the boy, Jamie. But that is actually even worse because it centres Jamie’s motivation on masculinity itself, the same narrative that has been poisoning our culture for decades. Either way it can only be seen de facto as the blackest propaganda, whatever the writers intended.'

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'During an evening workout at Spirit Fitness in south-east Moscow, gym-goers were suddenly told to drop to the floor.

This was not part of their training, however, but an instruction from Russian police hunting for illegal immigrants and military draft dodgers.

Such raids have been reported across multiple Russian cities for weeks, human rights campaigners say, even before Vladimir Putin signed an order to conscript 160,000 men in the country’s biannual call-up, the largest since 2011.'

Video here. Good commentary discussing "Adolescence", "the manosphere", and feminism's effects on society.