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'A liberal guest on Friday's "The View" pushed back on the idea that "toxic masculinity" is a problem for society.

Co-host Sara Haines asked NYU business professor and author Scott Galloway about his new book, "Notes on Being a Man," in which he urges men to embrace healthy masculinity.

She referenced the current cultural spotlight on masculinity, as seen in the popular Netflix show "Adolescence," and in how Democratic governors like Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer and Maryland's Wes Moore have recently launched programs to help young men in their respective states.

Galloway brought up how men are far more likely than women to commit suicide, face addictions and be incarcerated. He argued that young men need a positive view of masculinity to guide their lives.'

Article here. No inquiries to such men re WHY they are not inclined to work? Think we need to start there. Excerpt:

'President Trump wants to get America’s vast army of “dropout” men back into the workforce. Attention to this problem is long overdue.

Nearly 7 million men in the prime of life — over a tenth of the 25-to-54 age group — are neither working nor looking for work these days.

But Team Trump is trying to fix the problem with the wrong tools.

They argue that trade policy (tariffs) and industrial policy (special treatment for manufacturing) will reverse the long-term flight from work by men, by creating high-paying jobs to lure them back to work.

This approach may sound sensible to some. Unfortunately, it is likely to fail — even though the White House could succeed through other pro-work policies.'

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'A woman was sentenced for a false rape report that resulted in an innocent man being jailed for a month.

According to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office, a 20-year-old woman from Bristol Township was sentenced to 45 days to 23 months in Bucks County Correctional Facility for filing a false police report that led to an innocent man being jailed for a month.

Anjela Borisova Urumova pled guilty in January to seven misdemeanor counts, including false alarm to an agency of public safety, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, false reports, and unsworn falsification to authorities.

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'A female doctor’s claims of gender discrimination and retaliation failed to survive summary judgment when she couldn’t demonstrate that workplace tensions stemmed from gender-based animus rather than general interpersonal conflicts, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

The decision in O’Horo v. Boston Medical Center Corporation reinforces that while Title VII prohibits discrimination based on protected characteristics, it does not serve as a “general civility code” for the workplace. Employers can take steps to address interpersonal conflicts while remaining vigilant against genuine discrimination.

“[The plaintiff’s] claim rests, in large part, on incidents with no apparent relation to her gender, and she makes no effort — beyond pointing to her subjective beliefs — to demonstrate such gender-based discriminatory animus,” Gelpí stated.

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'Being a young person today is anything but simple. For many young Indians, adolescence is no longer a carefree phase but a high-pressure journey marked by academic stress, social media scrutiny, and emotional isolation. Beneath the surface of exam scores, digital connectivity, and outward success lies a growing undercurrent of anxiety, depression, and emotional struggle, too often overlooked or misunderstood. India is facing a silent yet staggering mental health crisis — one that is disproportionately impacting its youth.
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'There is a deeply unsettling irony buried beneath modern discourse about female empowerment. Women are told they are strong, capable, and deserving of equal opportunity—but they are also conditioned to outsource responsibility for their lives to systems that can never truly protect them.

They are warned about men, encouraged to seek institutional solutions to personal problems, and taught to distrust the very tools that would make them independent. The bitter truth is this: the most persistent obstacle to female empowerment is not some grand patriarchal conspiracy. It is other women—and the belief systems they promote, police, and perpetuate.

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'Previously, persons had assumed that men were the “winners” on the full range of gender issues. But a recently published analysis identifies 12 areas in which men are substantially lagging behind women. These disparities include lower enrollment in higher education, five-year shorter life span, dramatically higher rates of homelessness, and nine other areas (2).

Last month the International Council for Men and Boys released a historic New York Declaration for Men and Boys, designed to galvanize global attention about the pressing needs facing men (3).

Both Democratic and Republican leaders have become actively engaged in this debate.'

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'Instead, this policy response draws on a history of moral panic about young people and the internet. Young people are a “problem” we can “fix”, while ignoring deeper social and cultural issues.

This framing of boys and the internet ignores their capacity, skills and how they engage in the digital world. It also ignores the many ways in which they learn about relationships.

Most importantly, it risks further marginalising boys from the conversations and education they urgently need.'

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'A party-list lawmaker on Tuesday filed a bill seeking to disqualify local and national candidates who make misogynistic or discriminatory remarks during election campaigns.

Gabriela Rep. Arlene Brosas filed at the House of Representatives Bill 11498, which proposes amendments to Sections 68 and 261 of the Omnibus Election Code.

The bill seeks to make misogynistic and gender-based harassment during campaigns a ground for disqualification and an election offense.'

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'How can we legislate to criminalise misogyny when we can’t even agree what a woman is?” So said one SNP backbench MSP, commenting on The Times’story that Nicola Sturgeon’s proposed bill outlawing hatred of women has been shelved. It is destined for the scrapheap of “woke” legislation, we are told. Yet the irony is that it is another of Sturgeon’s quintessentially woke enthusiasms that has scuppered it.

The misogyny bill has been kicking around St Andrew’s House since March 2022 when St Nicola’s favourite barrister, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws KC, proposed imprisoning men for up to seven years for “stirring up hatred” against women. However, Humza Yousaf, following his boss, said that “of course” transgender women would be protected by the legislation, as well as “cis” women.

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'The fate of boys “is a defining issue of our time”, according to the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, as she calls for more men to become teachers to combat “toxic” behaviours.

Speaking at a conference on Thursday, Phillipson will warn that boys and young men growing up in Britain need stronger role models to counteract the dangers they face, illustrated by the Netflix series Adolescence.

“It’s clear the behaviour of boys, their influences, and the young men they become, is a defining issue of our time,” Phillipson is to say, adding: “We need to raise a generation of boys with the strength to reject that hatred – curiosity, compassion, kindness, resilience, hope, respect.”'

Podcast here.

'Could having more male teachers help with toxic masculinity?

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson sparked a discussion with her comments calling for more men to become teachers, so that young boys have better role models.

Is this the case here too? And what can be done to attract and encourage men into classrooms?

Principal and Host of ‘If I were Minister for Education’ Podcast, Simon Lewis, joins Seán to discuss.'

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'In the UK men are more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, use drugs and have high cholesterol and blood pressure.

These are major contributors to the fact men have a lower life expectancy than women - by four years - and are nearly 60% more likely to die prematurely before the age of 75 with heart disease, lung cancer, liver disease and in accidents.

Prof Alan White, who co-founded the Men's Health Forum charity and set up a dedicated men's health centre at Leeds Beckett University, says the issue needs to be taken more seriously.

He cites the pandemic as an example, pointing out that 19,000 more men than women died from Covid. "Where was the outrage? Where was the attention?"

He says it is too easy to blame men's poor health on their lifestyles, arguing "it's much more complex than that."'

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'Last weekend I was on a panel at the Oxford Literary Festival (sponsored by The Telegraph, if you please) and the topic was the Southport riots. In considering the subject, the excellent Tony Sewell, aka the Lord Sewell of Sanderstead, aired the view that one big cause of social unrest in Britain is that white working class boys are left behind. They’re bottom of the barrel, whether in school, higher education prospects, health, happiness, or projected income. Sewell, the chair of the 2021 Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report, knows the stats well. His report found that “systemic racism” is not what lies behind disparities in outcome in Britain: it’s class, and poor white youth, mostly boys, do by far the worst.'

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But ideological versions of feminism are analogous to a particular kind of religion (which has a history that goes back not centuries but millennia). I refer to fundamentalism, which relies on a profoundly dualistic vision of the world: one in which “we” are perpetually victimized and “they” are perpetually “privileged.” All of history is therefore a titanic war between “us” and “them,” one that will end ultimately with “our” victory (reward) and “their” defeat (punishment).