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.'

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'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.'

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'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.'

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'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.'

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'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.'

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'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.'

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'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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'The coalition government is hoping a new bill agreed upon last week will help make this a reality, bolstering Germany’s forces in the face of the perceived threat from Russia and a significant shift in US foreign policy.

The sweeping new reforms will see Germany attempt to boost its numbers to 260,000 soldiers, up from around 180,000 currently, in addition to an extra 200,000 reservists, by 2035.

In the first instance, the drive will focus on voluntary enlistment, with greater incentives for those who sign up, including a monthly starting salary of €2,600 ($3,000) – an increase of €450 from the current level.

If the new quotas are not met, the government will have the option of mandatory call-ups, where necessary.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'There are millions of compassionate and loving people in the United States who have been given erroneous information about domestic violence. Over the years the media and academia have offered a steady stream of information that indicates that women are the only victims of domestic violence and men the only perpetrators. We have all been deceived. What most don’t know is that a part of that deception has been intentional and has come from the scientific community. As hard as it is to believe it is indisputable. Most of us had no idea of this deception until recently. More and more is now coming out about the symmetry of victimization in domestic violence between men and women.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Happy International Men's Day! It's a perfect day to acknowledge the relentless war on masculinity? Here we go!

In this video I sit down with four people I deeply respect to talk about a book I think is going to matter: The Relentless War on Masculinity: When Will It End? by David Maywald.

Joining me are:

Dr. Jim Nuzzo – health researcher from Perth and author of The Nuzzo Letter, who’s been quietly but steadily documenting how men’s health is sidelined.

Dr. Hannah Spier – an anti-feminist psychiatrist (yes, you heard that right) and creator of Psychobabble, who pulls no punches about female accountability and the mental-health system.

Lisa Britton – writer for Evie Magazine and other outlets, one of the few women bringing men’s issues into women’s media and mainstream conversation.

David Maywald – husband, father of a son and a daugh ter, long-time advocate for boys’ education and men’s wellbeing, and now author of The Relentless War on Masculinity.'