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Melissa Gilbert has a new perspective about her “Little House on the Prairie” experience. While clapping back at Megyn Kelly’s recent comments about late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the actress, now 61, reflected on the 8-year age difference between herself and Dean Butler, who played her on-screen love interest in the NBC series. “So, I debated posting this but, I feel compelled to share. After seeing many women’s posts with the hashtags #iwasfifteen #imfifteen #iwasachild, I decided to google search myself at that age and see what came up,” Gilbert wrote on Instagram on Saturday, alongside photos of her...

A woman in her late thirties posts a simple complaint online: “Men can have kids into their seventies. I’ve only got a few years left. That’s so unfair.” Within hours, her mentions are a war zone. Some men sneer about “geriatric eggs.” Others write manifestos about feminism and hypergamy. A few women defend her, but the thread collapses into the same argument we’ve been having for decades. In Britain, a thirty-four-year-old woman recently sued her ex-boyfriend, claiming he had “stolen her childbearing years.” After ten years together, he ended the relationship without fulfilling his promises of marriage and children. Now,...

The BBC has upheld 20 impartiality complaints over the way presenter Martine Croxall altered a script she was reading live on the BBC News Channel, which referred to "pregnant people" earlier this year. Croxall was introducing an interview about research on groups most at risk during UK heatwaves, which quoted a release from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The presenter changed her script to instead say "women", and the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) said it considered her facial expression as she said this gave the "strong impression of expressing a personal view on a controversial...

BBC boss Tim Davie faced calls to resign amid a newsroom revolt after a newsreader who corrected 'pregnant people' to 'women' while live on air was rebuked. Senior BBC journalists are said to be furious over the censuring of Martine Croxall amid claims that the Corporation has been 'captured by trans ideologists'. .................................................... Ms Croxall, 56, was introducing a segment on Britain's heatwave in June when the autocue instructed her to report that 'pregnant people' should take precautions. After briefly reading the line, she corrected it with a raise of the eyebrow.

It’s called the “gender gap” (should be “sex gap,” really) in voting, and, boy, did it ever manifest itself Tuesday night. In fact, November 4 was a great day for the GOP. That is, in an alternate universe in which only men vote. Let’s go down the list. In Virginia there were three major races, and men broke Republican in all of them. They went for Winsome Earle-Sears for governor (all figures represent percentages), 53-47; John Reid for lieutenant governor, 55-44; and Jason Miyares for attorney general, 57-42. Meanwhile, in the upside-down, women broke Democrat in all three races by...

We have met the enemy of civilization, and it’s women. Not individual women, mind you. Because any given individual woman can possess masculine characteristics. And certainly not homemakers — those are the women who are doing the job they’ve done for millenniums, taking care of the family. No, the challenge to civilization is presented, in the view of Helen Andrews, a writer and editor who served as a senior editor at The American Conservative, by the women who are entering the workplace in such great numbers that they now make up large portions or majorities of their professions. In that...

For most of human history, coupling up was not merely a norm; it was a necessity. Before reliable contraception, women could not control their fertility, and most were far too poor to raise children alone. Hence the centuries-old convention that, whereas a tragic play or saga ends in death, a happy one ends in marriage. So the speed with which the norm of marriage—indeed, of relationships of any sort—is being abandoned is startling. Throughout the rich world, singlehood is on the rise. Among Americans aged 25-34, the proportion living without a spouse or partner has doubled in five decades, to...

It used to be yoga mats, soccer vans, and Chardonnay. Now it’s screaming TikToks, death threats, and deranged political sermons. America’s liberal “wine moms” have gone from oat milk progressives to full-blown online revolutionaries, and it’s happening fast. Now, sure, we get it; these people aren’t exactly “underground” or hiding in the shadows. But in a way, they actually were. Their violent, hate-filled rants flew so far under the radar until people on the right started shining a light on their bloodlust. One thing we can promise you: these ladies aren’t your typical fringe activists. They’re the same women who...

Fox News launched a new voter poll last night. It’s data that covers thousands of voters who cast ballots early on election day, by mail and in person. Sandra Smith crunched the numbers. The youth vote overwhelmingly went for Mamdani in this race; 75% of their support went to him. And when you break this down into gender, that number gets even bigger. Women under the age of 30 went for Mamdani by 80%. What were voters looking for: 27% said they wanted to bring change to the city. 72% of their vote went to Zohran, the communist. 1 in...

A gym in Los Angeles terminated the membership of a woman who complained about a man using the women's locker room. Tish Hyman posted on X about the experience of having a man follow her into the women's room and call her a "*****," only to have her gym membership canceled. On Sunday, Hyman posted, "Today he saw me walk into the women’s room followed me in and called me a *****. I ran out into the locker room crying and screaming. This is why we can’t be quiet because people need to know what’s happening. Thank you to the...

In the publication’s 70th anniversary issue, the magazine undercut its own important legacy by attacking one of the right’s biggest icons.National Review is turning 70. The legacy of that publication is hard to sum up, but suffice it to say, its impact on American politics has been enormous, and it’s one I certainly feel personally. I worked there for a couple of years, and I was very grateful for the job and the experience it gave me. My tenure at NR only overlapped with the last few months of William F. Buckley’s life, though I had met him once earlier...

In an interview last weekend, Kamala Harris predicted that someday there would be a woman in the White House. She then hinted it might be her: “I am not done,” she said. To which America collectively sighed, “Please, for the love of God, don’t do this to us again!” I say this as someone who rode the Harris rollercoaster. I was skeptical at first, then briefly impressed when she didn’t implode in the summer of 2024. Ultimately, we received a brutal reminder of why President Trump is still the equivalent of a political wrecking ball. But this isn’t just about...

Glamour Magazine has named nine transgender activists as their Women of the Year. The honourees include a mix of relatively unknown models, actors and musicians, with the most famous face being Munroe Bergdorf - a controversial activist who once branded 'all white people racist' and said that the Suffragettes were 'white supremacists'. Last year she was named the first 'UK champion' for UN Women UK and was previously the first ever trans woman to model for L'Oreal.

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that an athletic organization violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when it barred a transgender athlete from competing, culminating a six-year-long legal battle. Minnesota Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Natalie E. Hudson affirmed that a sport organization’s policy barring trans women from competing is “facially discriminatory and constitutes direct evidence of discrimination based on sexual orientation under the [Minnesota Human Rights Act’s] prohibition against discrimination in business and places of public accommodation.” The decision reversed a court of appeals ruling that had sowed doubt on whether the organization, USA Powerlifting, had made the decision to...

As they grapple with a profound disconnection from their parents and older adults in general, nearly 40% of young adult women in Generation Z — those born between 1999 and 2015 — now identify as religiously unaffiliated, according to new data released by Barna Research. The data from 2,000 adults and teenagers between the ages of 13 and 24 shows that 38% of Gen Z women (ages 18 to 24) currently identify as atheist, agnostic or say they have no faith at all. This is higher than the 32% of men in the same age group who said they are...

I made the following 5 Gifs from the linked video. Audio consists mostly of the video taker (in the guy behind her) laughing.As of today, Dec 26, 2018, 1,881,565 views, 51,000+ Likes

A glamorous suspected serial killer allegedly kept her landlord’s decomposing body inside her home in Brazil for five days, according to reports. Ana Paula Veloso Fernandes, a 36-year-old mom and law student from São Paulo, is alleged to have killed at least four people in the space of five months, CNN Brasil reported. The “extremely manipulative” suspect “takes pleasure in killing” and shows “a lack of remorse,” Police Chief Halisson Ideiao said.She “wants to kill” and would “certainly attempt to kill others” if released, the chief warned. One of the four deaths tied to Veloso Fernandes includes her landlord, Marcelo...

For those of you wondering how CNN's brand has fallen so deep into the toilet, the strange attitudes divorced from reality of many who work at that network might offer one of the significant reasons.An example comes in the form of CNN's Science and Wellness writer, Madeline Holcombe, who wrote an overlong boring rant about her neurotic hangup with the 'male gaze' on Saturday, "After years of progress on gender, the male gaze is back."The "male gaze" is back? If you even knew it ever existed as a major problem in the first place, then YOU are probably the one...

Women and girls over the age of 12 have been banned by a mosque from taking part in a charity fun run, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The 5km event being held in an East London park today – which has been billed as 'inclusive' and 'family-friendly' – is open to men and boys of all ages, but organisers insist that female teenagers and women can be forbidden from joining in. The fundraiser, called Muslim Charity Run and organised by East London Mosque, is being held in Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets.

In women with type 2 diabetes (T2D), use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) skin patches is not associated with a higher risk of blood clots or stroke. However, an increased cardiovascular risk was found for oral HRT, according to a large real-world study. Among the findings are an analysis revealing women with T2D who took the oral form of HRT doubled their risk of developing a pulmonary embolism (PE—when a blood clot blocks an artery in the lung) and faced a 21% increased risk of heart disease compared with those receiving transdermal HRT (skin patches). "Our study suggests that up...