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...to many young souls, AI chatbots aren’t just tools or glorified search engines — they’re companions.A new survey found that nearly one in five high schoolers in the US — 19 percent — say that they or a friend have used AI to have a romantic relationship,..The findings were published in a new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology, which surveyed 1,000 high school students, 1,000 parents, and around 800 sixth through 12th grade public school teachers. Therapists have warned that AI chatbots can give dangerous advice to teens. The bots frequently break their own guardrails have been...

Bill Ackman quote tweeted a graph showing the partisan gap between young men and women almost doubled in 25 years. https://x.com/zarathustra5150/status/2011851505834352809?s=20 Women moved radically left. Men stayed roughly where they were. https://x.com/BillAckman/status/2012003297146912926?s=20 Good question. Most answers I've seen are either tribal ("women are emotional") or surface-level ("social media bad"). Neither traces the actual mechanism. Let me try. First, notice what Wanye pointed out: https://x.com/xwanyex/status/2011813443209146730?s=20 We've been told for a decade that men are "radicalizing to the right" and that this is dangerous. The actual data shows the opposite. Men barely moved. Women moved 20+ points leftward. The story we are...

Modern relationships between men and women are dysfunctional. But to understand why, we cannot examine them through the lens of emotion or morality. We need to look at something far more fundamental, our biology. If you look at the natural world, you'll see that there are three distinct categories that demonstrate how two organisms relate to each other. The first is competition, where you are fighting over a limited resource. This is the lion and the hyena fighting over the same carcass. One party's gain is the other party's loss. This dynamic is the classic power struggle where one needs...

Earlier this week, Kevin Downey Jr. wrote about what he calls "affluent white liberal women," or AWFLs, pegging them as the biggest internal threat to America. Not foreign enemies. Not terror cells. Just well-off women with pronouns in their bios and too much time on their hands. He described them as attention-seeking harpies who push extreme gender ideology, drag their kids to medicalized gender clinics, and parade them at sexualized drag shows labeled as "family-friendly." These are the same people, he argued, who want to defund the police, defend criminals no matter how violent or foreign, and censor anyone who...

Divorcing a good man is not an act of bravery but an act of self-destruction that harms many others in the process.There’s a big milestone coming up for a lot of families this year: first divorced Christmas. It might be a challenging day of splitting kids between disparate family events. Or, perhaps, Mom and Dad will behave like adults and both show up to the same gathering in an effort to create some normalcy for their children, who, heretofore, might have had an intact family and simple celebrations.For as long as there has been marriage, there have been some people...

Life is apparently so disagreeable in Donald Trump’s America that 40 percent of women aged between 15 and 44 want to leave. That is four times higher than the 10 percent who wanted to quit the US in 2014. According to Gallup, which conducted the poll, nearly half the nation’s younger women have “lost faith in America’s institutions.” This disenchantment accelerated after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which enshrined the constitutional right to abortion. Younger American men are bearing up better. Only 19 percent share women’s distaste for the Donald, a 21 percent differential which...

The moment hero bus passengers leapt into action and saved a teenage girl from being kidnapped by a Sudanese migrant as she walked home has been released. The 17-year-old victim was walking alone after finishing a shift at a theatre when she was followed by Abdulmawal Ibrahim Adam. Adam tried to engage the teenager in conversation before continuing to target her aggressively as she desperately tried to flag down passing cars for help. Terrifying footage shows Adam attempting to grab the 'petrified' young woman and drag her across the road as she tried to break free. But the scuffle and...

This is why we have trust issues.If you’ve spent any time watching Catfish on MTV, you’re probably familiar with the risks of online dating. People posing as someone they’re not is something all singles need to watch out for as they swipe on apps. But apparently there’s a chance you might not be catfished by another person at all—you might be getting scammed by a restaurant. A trend is emerging where restaurants are posing as eligible singles on dating apps to lure users to dine at their establishment. The scam has been dubbed “food digging,” derived from the term “gold...

Richard Cooper @Rich_Cooper 40 yr old women: I have no idea why I can't find a husband... Also 40 yr old women:

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...

New words are routinely popping up to describe an evolving relationship landscape - but also paint a largely dispiriting picture. If buzzy dating terms and trends are anything to go by, 2025 hasn’t made relationships sound too appealing. Granted, the course of true love never did run smooth and all that, but considering how modern dating in a digital age leaves many confused, disillusioned and frequently reporting that it’s akin to wading through the bin juice of humanity, it’s hardly surprising that the ever-growing relationship glossary veers towards the negative. New words are routinely popping up to describe the evolving...

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...

A woman has been accused of using dating apps to meet men and then burglarize their homes, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Adva Lavie is wanted for a string of burglaries in which she allegedly targeted older men, posing as a romantic companion on virtual dating platforms and social media, according to officials. She is also known to use the aliases Mia Ventura, Shoshana or Shana, according to officials.

Abbie Chatfield has warned women against dating men who support US president Donald Trump. The former Bachelor star, 29, tells this week's issue of Stellar Magazine that she feels conservative men are 'dangerous'. 'I don't think women should date Trump supporters. I think these far-right people are actively dangerous to women, and I don't think that any [woman] should be dating someone who's a misogynist' she told the publication.

The country pop singer offered a crowd of celebs and Hamptons locals some raw behind-the-scenes stories on the making of her new album “Dreamsicle” during an intimate Soho Sessions concert at the iconic Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett Monday night. “I started dating a little bit [after my divorce] and just met some f*cking bums that couldn’t pay the tab,” she said of the inspiration behind the song “Too Good.” “I brought to my cowriters this idea, and I was like, ‘I’ve been dating a few losers. I think it’s just a stroke of bad luck. It’s gonna end soon.'” The...

VIDEOIn 2023, the Burning Man Festival was hit by extreme flooding. Last year, dust storms hit. And this year a heavy sand storm completely destroyed the "festival" including, tragically, the Orgy Dome. And yet dumb shmoes will continue to pay thousands of dollars to go to a festival that Mother Nature obviously hates to the extent that She destroys it every year.However, there is an incredible upside to Burning Man because it acts as a fantastic Man Filter. In this video someone points out that the week of Burning Man is also the one week of the year that women...

Move over, private detectives — Lana Madison is the real-life honey trap taking cheating boyfriends down, one flirty emoji at a time. The influencer, 29, whose $150K online-funded curves turn heads, now cashes in by helping women catch cheating boyfriends. With 76,000 followers across social media, she’s become a go-to for girlfriends who want receipts. “They slide into my inbox and ask me to flirt with their boyfriend to find out if he’ll cheat,” the bombshell recently told Jam Press. “Spoiler alert — a lot of them will. I didn’t plan to become a real-life honey trap. But once a...

If the first message you get from someone you matched with on a dating app leaves you speechless, hopefully it’s because you’re wowed by their good looks, witticisms, curious mind, and articulate nature. If that sounds painfully naive, welcome to the apps in modern dating culture. The daters Julie Nguyen works with are more likely to be floored by the laziness, spelling errors, and sheer audacity of the people on the other end. “It’s a numbers game, so it’s really easy to just be like, ‘OK, I’m going to say something really quick and really generic because I’m going to...

There is a growing trend of objectively beautiful women complaining about the lack of male attention while enjoying a night out with their friends. Never in history have I heard of women complaining that men weren’t paying enough attention to them. However, after several decades of demonizing men for their advances, it seems men have finally taken the hint and backed off. There’s a social media trend right now of women posting videos frustrated that men aren’t approaching them romantically. Instead of exploring the reasons behind this shift with curiosity and compassion, many of these posts have a blaming tone...

I’m a 42-year-old Black female, 195 pounds, 5’11”. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I have natural hair and a natural body type. I’m educated and have a good career. I own my home and car and play tennis, swim and do yoga. I travel and volunteer in my community.