Article here. Excerpt:

'Asked what the key priorities for Government should be to support men’s mental health and prevent male suicide, Mr Repacholi highlighted the need for more services to be tailored to the needs and preferences of men and boys.

”First, we need strong, local mental health services that men feel comfortable using,” he said, before adding that the sector was already doing incredible work.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Karen Read, a US woman charged with running over her police officer boyfriend and leaving him for dead in a snowbank, has been found not guilty of second-degree murder in a case that gripped true-crime fans nationwide.

The jury also found Ms Read, 44, not guilty of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of the collision in January 2022. But she was convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol (OUI).

Her July 2024 trial stemming from the death of Boston police officer John O'Keefe collapsed after the jury was unable to reach a verdict.

She again pleaded not guilty in the retrial, with her lawyers arguing she was being framed for Mr O'Keefe's death.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'When completed, Brook House in Acton will provide 102 "genuinely affordable" social rented flats, replacing an old 39-home estate. The cost of renting a home will be on average less than a quarter of what it would cost to rent an equivalently sized home in the private sector.

Ealing Council currently has more than 600 single women on its waiting list and over 8,000 households in the borough waiting for a home. The tenants will be a mixture of women from the council waiting list and residents put forward by Women's Pioneer Housing, which will manage the site.

Women's Pioneer Housing was founded in 1920 by suffragists. It manages around 1,000 properties in West London, most of which are studio or one-bedroom flats in large converted Victorian or Edwardian buildings.'

Article here. Men need to be aware of the strategies and tactics used by women in terms of relational aggression. They use it against each other and against men. Excerpt:

'Relational aggression is the psychologist’s name for what the rest of us call ‘mean girl’ behaviour, or straight-up ‘bitchiness’. It is a pattern of behaviour typically played out by school-age girls, but it is not exclusive to them. In fact, where do they learn it if not from their adult role models? Adults are just more subtle about it.

Chances are, you’ve experienced relational aggression. You know it when it happens to you. It’s an emotional slap in the face and you often feel a sense of shame and confusion.

What distinguishes relational aggression from just being mean, is that it focuses on damaging a person’s sense of social place. I see it as using relationships as weapons.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'We don’t talk about it much on Father’s Day, but we should: when dads disappear, children pay the price. Boys lose their guide for channeling power responsibly. Girls lose their first experience of what it feels like to be ​loved and respected by a good man.

The numbers bear it out: more school dropouts, more juvenile crime, more emotional struggles. A father’s absence ripples outward for generations.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Those in a similar position who are still in jail could soon see some relief in Georgia. A new law passed in Georgia called the Survivor Justice Act would allow domestic violence survivors to ask for lower sentences in court if they can present evidence that abuse led them to commit their crimes. Under the law, Dickens' sentence could have been as little as 10 years.

Republican state Rep. Stan Gunter sponsored the bill, which passed overwhelmingly in Georgia's Legislature and was signed by Gov. Brian Kemp last month.

"We weren't looking at the whole picture. We were just getting bits and pieces of it, and it wasn't enough to make a good, clear decision on how to treat these people," Gunter said.

"This is not a get out of jail free card. They still have to serve a portion of the sentence," he added.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A House Ways and Means Committee hearing took an unexpected turn Wednesday when Rep. Linda Sanchez, D.Calif., accused Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of interrupting her because of her gender—prompting audible groans from the room.

When Bessent attempted to interject, Sanchez quickly cut him off: "Please don’t interrupt me… I know I’m a woman, but please try to limit yourself to answering my questions."

That remark prompted groans from the hearing room, with one attendee audibly reacting, "Oh, come on." Sanchez responded: "No, I’m sorry, but we get talked over all the time, and I don’t want that to happen at this hearing."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'MPs on the cross-party committee chaired by Labour MP Sarah Owen will examine the rise of the manosphere and its influence on misogynistic behaviour and attitudes online and offline. The session will also look at the emerging use of artificial intelligence (AI) and how this is facilitating misogyny, and the links between the misuse of AI and the manosphere.

Discussion is expected to focus on non-consensual intimate image abuse (NCII) through deepfakes, linked to the Committee’s current and prior work on NCII abuse, and other aspects of Bates’ research, including bias in artificial intelligence.

WEC’s inquiry explores the prevalence and impact of misogynistic views, attitudes and behaviour among men and boys, particularly in schools and educational settings, and the reasons for this. It examines ways that boys and young men are also being harmed and if better support, activities and services need to be available to them.'

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Article here. Excerpt:

'France has followed the UK and the Netherlands in allowing the Netflix drama Adolescence to be used in secondary schools as part of efforts to teach teenagers about toxic masculinity and online harms.

The French education ministry will offer schools five classes based on excerpts from the critically acclaimed mini-series, which has provoked a global debate about the impact on young boys of misogynistic content online and on social media.'

Whatifalthist discusses the blue pill and how it's gone in western society -- and where it's going. He makes specific observations about young men in our society and the effects the blue pill has had on them.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Streeting was speaking at the launch of The Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys (CPRMB), a new organisation that seeks to produce actionable policies to tackle a decline in men’s health, employability and life expectancy that has crept up on the political class. Brooks – their policy adviser and a lifetime campaigner in the field of men’s health – has overseen the release of the CPRMB’s first report. Missing Men outlines the challenges facing men and boys, and comes hot on the heels of another report by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) – Lost Boys – which paints an equally stark picture of male outcomes.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Scientists long assumed that women were simply too wonderful to be significantly psychopathic or narcissistic, and didn’t bother to study the possibility much, according to Ava Green from City St George’s, University of London. But research over the past few decades is increasingly challenging this stereotype, suggesting women can have a dark streak, too. Much like in autism or ADHD, such traits just express themselves slightly differently in women – making them harder to spot with diagnostic tests that were essentially developed for men.

Article here. Excerpt:

'...Today, a perfect storm of economic, political, and technological forces is driving young people — mostly men, as every noncollege techie I interviewed happened to be — to circumvent college entirely. For one, higher education has grown prohibitively expensive: In 2024, the average federal student loan debt was just under $30,000 for those who completed a bachelor's degree, and all-in costs for some four-year degrees have now surpassed half a million dollars....
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Article here. Excerpt:

'Rump then pushed them on the bed and took off his clothes. She then allegedly had sexual intercourse with the boy, stating that she "wanted to do this for a long time."

She then told the boy that if he told anyone what happened she was going to say he raped her.The boy told police that he didn't say anything to anyone until another adult found out Rump had sex with him after Rump confessed to it at a beach, according to the affidavit.'

Video here. The narrator tells quite a story. She also has a vid saying how dating women helped her understand men, here. Nice to see this kind of thing though it's rare indeed.