Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2025-11-02 18:29    
  
  
    File this one under "Forced Paternity".  Excerpt:
'MaryBeth Lewis was shopping for groceries at her local Walmart in suburban Buffalo when she got the word: Her surrogate had just been induced. She rushed home and packed a bag for her new twins — a book for baby footprints, matching outfits and beanies and blankets embroidered with their names. Then she jumped back in the car and raced down Interstate 390 to a small hospital 130 miles away in a rural corner of the state.
When MaryBeth arrived at the maternity ward, she found her surrogate in a recovery room, tired but happy after a quick delivery. She asked to see the twins, and a nurse went to go find them. But before she returned, a different woman dressed in scrubs appeared and got in MaryBeth’s face. “What you did was terrible,” the woman said. “You will never see these babies.” MaryBeth tried to talk to her, but the woman refused to listen. A voice over the loudspeaker announced that visiting hours were over. “And that means you,” the woman said.'
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      Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2025-11-02 01:30    
  
  
    A documentary here about a man who after three failed marriages found himself homeless.  He decided to go live on a mountain.
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      Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2025-11-01 21:57    
  
  
    Video here.  Not the real Elon Musk but nonetheless a really good vid.
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      Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2025-10-31 21:44    
  
  
    Article here.  Excerpt:
'On Thursday evening, the lawmaker responded to some of her critics on X, who objected to the TV hits, given that the programs’ hosts are liberals:
"There are pathetic Republican men (mostly paid social media influencers) attacking me for going on Bill Maher’s show and The View.
Here is my voting card and nothing has changed about me, I’m 1,000,000% America ONLY.
Sorry I’m not sorry I don’t obey Republican men’s demands that I, as a woman, don’t remain seen but not heard."
The text was accompanied by a screenshot of her “A” voting grade by the Conservative Review.'
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      Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2025-10-28 21:55    
  
  
    Article here.  Excerpt:
'The UPR is a unique UN mechanism that examines the human rights situation in every member state every five years. A working group of 47 countries bases its recommendations on three key documents: the National Report submitted by the member state, the Compilation of UN Information, and the Summary of Stakeholder Submissions, which includes relevant contributions from the Ombudsperson and civil society organizations.
The report highlights a warning from the Center for Economic Education (CEE) that the Defense Act discriminates against men by legally obligating them to perform military service solely on the basis of sex. This, the CEE notes, restricts men’s personal liberty and imposes sex-based obligations, while simultaneously disparaging the value of women’s contribution to the armed forces.'
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      Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2025-10-28 21:46    
  
  
    Helen Andrews' essay is as the liberals would say, sparking a "backlash".  One such article is here.  Excerpt:
'Although interest in “The Great Feminization” has been building for a while, it exploded recently with a viral essay by Helen Andrews, a conservative commentator. In it, Andrews argues that female group dynamics are responsible for “wokeness” and “cancel culture,” which she describes as “simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently.” Andrews argues that corporate cultures often suffer when they become majority female, and she worries particularly about the impact of gender dynamics on law. Too many women lawyers, she suggests, might well bring down the American legal system:
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      Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2025-10-28 00:03    
  
  
    Article here.  Excerpt:
'Worldwide, the number of children born to the average family has dropped by more than half since the 1970s, according to the latest United Nations data. Economists say having fewer children is the norm for many families, especially in relatively prosperous countries like the U.S.
The trend is leading to populations that are dramatically older, and beginning to shrink, in many of the world's biggest economies.
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Already, women in the 15 countries that account for 75% of global gross domestic product, including the U.S., are having too few children to maintain a stable population. Many of those nations have fallen into the "very low" category of "total fertility rate" identified by the U.N. as a serious concern.
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      Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2025-10-27 20:06    
  
  
    Article here.  Excerpt:
'Something precious has been lost between men and women. You can feel it in the awkwardness of modern dating, the cold negotiations of marriage, and the way so many couples approach each other with suspicion instead of trust. What used to be a natural partnership—rooted in complementarity and mutual respect—has been reframed through a political lens that sees power, not love, as the central dynamic.
That shift didn’t happen by chance. Feminist ideology, as it evolved from the 1960s onward, carried a moral story about men and women: that men were the oppressors and women their victims. What began as a call for fairness hardened into a worldview that mistrusts men, glorifies grievance, and turns intimacy into an ideological battlefield.'
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      Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2025-10-27 01:04    
  
  
    Article here.  Finally, the punishment fits the crime in a female-perp case.  Excerpt:
'A woman who raped and murdered 12 year-old Lola Daviet in Paris has been handed a rare whole-life sentence in a case that has shocked France.
Dahbia Benkired, aged 27, must spend at least 30 years in prison after a panel of judges and a jury decided to impose the country's harshest possible penalty.
A whole-life term is extremely rare in France and Benkired is the first woman to receive it.
Those who have been given the sentence include serial killer and rapist Michel Fourniret and jihadist Salah Abdeslam, who took part in the 2015 Paris attacks which killed 130 people.'
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      Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2025-10-24 01:34    
  
  
    Article here.  Excerpt:
'For decades, Women’s Studies has held a privileged place in academia. From its earliest days, it was never a neutral or exploratory field—it was born out of activism, not inquiry. The goal was not to ask open questions about gender, but to advance a political framework that saw women as oppressed and men as privileged. It promised to give women a collective voice and to expose the “hidden structures” of patriarchy, but from the beginning, its conclusions were already written into its premises.
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      Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2025-10-23 22:39    
  
  
  
  
 
  
        
    
      
      Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2025-10-23 02:17    
  
  
    Article here.  Excerpt:
'The family courts will no longer work on the presumption that having contact with both parents is in the best interests of a child, in a landmark change that domestic abuse campaigners have said “will save so many children’s lives”.
The move has been heralded as “groundbreaking” by family lawyers and campaigners who have long argued that the “pro-contact culture” in the family courts places the rights of abusive fathers over the safety and wellbeing of children.'
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      Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2025-10-22 22:54    
  
  
    Article here.  Excerpt:
'Yesterday Virginia Democrats announced an effort to create a legislative advisory committee for men and boys — the first ever in the country.
House Speaker Don Scott, Del. Josh Thomas (House patron), Sen. Lamont Bagby (Senate Patron and party chair) Sen. Lashrecse Aird and Del. Michael Feggans gave a press conference Oct. 14 at the General Assembly building to announce what stands to be groundbreaking legislation.
A bill to create a permanent committee will be introduced to the general assembly next year and focus on four key areas long known to negatively impact men and boys:'
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      Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2025-10-22 22:51    
  
  
    Article here.  Excerpt:
'Controversial dating safety apps, Tea and TeaOnHer, have been pulled from the Apple App Store. The apps’ removal was first spotted by the app store intelligence provider Appfigures, which told TechCrunch the two apps were removed from the App Store on Tuesday in all markets but remain live on Google Play.
Reached for comment, Apple confirmed the apps’ removal, saying it removed Tea Dating Advice and TeaOnHer from the App Store because they failed to meet Apple’s requirements around content moderation and user privacy. The company also said it saw an excessive number of user complaints and negative reviews, which included complaints of minors’ personal information being posted in these apps.'
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      Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2025-10-21 22:56    
  
  
  
  
 
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