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Raden Ajeng Kartini was a first wave feminist and is a national hero in Indonesia. The pillars of her feminism were: A. Family. This included deep love and respect for her father and husband. B. What women are as mothers. C. Education where teachers strive to be like mothers to their students. D. Pride in her own people and culture. If only modern feminists could be more Kartiniist. I believe that is what a true fourth wave of feminism needs to aim for: nomore misandry and no more marginalisation of mums. Like Kartini when she wrote with pride of having...

We must be living in the Upside Down right now, because why is Taylor Swift being booed at the Super Bowl while Donald Trump gets cheers?Early into the first quarter of the 2025 Super Bowl, Swift was shown on the Jumbotron sitting next to Ice Spice, and was greeted with an immediate chorus of boos. The singer gave the camera a top-tier Jim Halpert side-eye and seemed to say to her seatmate, “What is going on?” Frankly, I have the same question.Last year, when Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship was new, certain NFL fans took bizarre umbrage with the pop...

A Maryland woman dubbed the “Black Widow” who was suspected of killing two of her ex-husbands and another lover was freed by President Biden on Wednesday in his latest clemency initiative intended for non-violent criminal offenders — a move that left her former prosecutor “pissed off.” SNIP “This doesn’t feel like a ‘rule of law’ moment for the Biden administration,” James Trusty, who prosecuted Gray in Maryland, told The Washington Free Beacon. “It pisses me off, as you can imagine.” SNIP Prosecutors at the time claimed that Gray, a former custodian and a grandma, was practicing voodoo and had her...

According to investigative journalist Andy Ngo, she posted a purported "sneak peek" of the manifesto to her Discord account, "@brainedout." In the earlier version, Rupnow allegedly discussed a desire to "exterminate" all males, including infants and the elderly, in a rant apparently inspired by extremist culture among fringe social media circles.

Sexual assault was more closely associated with PTSD symptoms than a slew of other stressful life experiences. On paper, Iceland should be a haven for women. The high-income Nordic country has topped the World Economic Forum’s global gender equality rankings for 15 years in a row, and for the past half-century, women and men have been equally likely to lead the country. But the island nation’s international reputation comes with a striking caveat, a major new analysis shows: about 40 per cent of Icelandic women have been sexually or physically assaulted, and many are grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)....

In the annals of academic absurdity, there are moments that make even seasoned critics pause in awe. “Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea’” is one such moment. This is not a parody—though it reads like one—but a “serious” paper, or so the author insists. In what is best described as a surrealist love letter to brine shrimp, the author, Ewelina Jarosz (she/they), wades through a soup of critical theory, environmental activism, and performance art, asking the reader to reconsider their relationship with brine shrimp—not as mere crustaceans but as symbols of...

Most Catholics in all seven countries want the church to allow Catholics to use birth control. In most of the countries surveyed, majorities of Catholics also say the church should allow women to become priests.Opinion is more divided on whether the church should allow priests to get married. Views on whether the church should recognize the marriages of gay and lesbian couples vary among Catholics in the countries surveyed. Ten years ago, nearly all Catholics surveyed there (98%) expressed a favorable opinion of Francis, compared with 74% today.

WHEN AI BECAME A TOOL WITH publicly accessible interfaces, I got an influx of ads suggesting I try an app, Gencraft, to generate a kind of dream woman. The app can ostensibly generate any image, but ads and algorithms favor pretty girls. A few of the prompts I screenshotted—perhaps encouraging the algorithm to send me more ads—read: “A French girl with brown hair wearing a red leotard.” “A woman with blonde hair dressed in battle armor.” “Back shot of a girl with an intricate elvish back tattoo staring at a lake.” The resulting images all showed beautiful women; the prompt...

In a post-election jeremiad at Slate, Jill Filipovic opined that President-elect Donald Trump rode to victory on a “particular kind of masculine identity” that “imperils men and women alike.” Ms. Filipovic is right about the first point and wrong about the second. Men have risen: young men and old men, as well as men of all races. Women also voted for Mr. Trump in unexpected numbers, but commentators on the left and right seem to agree that men — especially young men — are the ones who propelled Mr. Trump into the White House, and his allies into Senate and...

Once, feminism was about being strong and invincible; now, though, it’s about being a screaming, crying, vindictive, emotional mess. We’ve been watching leftist women decompensate for eight years now. After all, there’s the endlessly lovely meme of the screaming woman in green on the day of Trump’s inauguration, along with all the ridiculous women parading around in pink “pussy” hats. The George Floyd riots gave us a whole new gallery of crazed women as they raged at black police officers, decrying those men’s racism. But we’ve never before had a parade of crazy like the one that’s swept social media...

Robin Wright touched on fan opinions that her 'Forrest Gump' character is the movie's antagonist, saying, "People have said she’s a Voldemort to Forrest"Robin Wright is addressing some long-standing backlash to her Forrest Gump character. While Wright, 58, and her costar Tom Hanks spoke with The New York Times about their new movie Here in an interview published Friday, Nov. 1, the actress was asked to comment on the notion that she played "kind of an anti-feminist role" in the movie. "No! It’s not about that. People have said she’s a Voldemort to Forrest. I wouldn’t choose that as...

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Barbara Dane, a jazz, blues and folk music giant who tirelessly championed social justice movements from around the world, died of heart failure in her Oakland home on Oct. 20 at age 97, her daughter Nina Menendez told the San Francisco Chronicle. Praised for her rich voice, Dane was known not only for singing with Louis Armstrong and Muddy Waters, but also for founding Paredon Records with her husband, music scholar and activist Irwin Silber. From 1970 to 1985, the label put out over 50 albums that addressed racial justice, feminism and anti-imperialism, giving a platform to activist artists from...

... Although states are taking strides to increase base pay for workers, it is still not enough. In California, the living wage for an adult with no children is $27.32 and is $61.58 for an adult with two children. Further, the value of the federal wage is at its lowest point since 1956, although businesses are within the financial means to pay significantly more. These drastically low wages have critical effects on equality in the U.S., with women being considerably overrepresented in low-wage jobs. Not only will increasing the minimum wage help ensure all workers earn a living wage, but...

Lacy MacAuley is a well known radical left-wing Antifa organizer in Washington D.C. She was featured in Project Veritas’ undercover videos which exposed the #DisruptJ20 plot to violently disrupt President Trump’s inauguration.  Just like every other lunatic leftist, Lacy fell in love with Islam and became obsessed with helping Syrian ‘refugees’, wholeheartedly believing that Islam is the religion of peace. MacAuley details her experience dating a Turkish Muslim man, describing the hell and fear she lived in because he controlled every move she made, beat and raped her. Islam is still the ‘religion of peace’, eh Lacy? From Lacy Macauley’s archived...

As vice president, Kamala Harris has co-led the first administration in American history that cannot definitively say what a woman is. Her administration's uncertainty over this biological certainty has not just been philosophical. Within the first 100 days of taking office, Joe Biden and Harris unveiled Executive Order 13988 to "prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation." Veiled in faulty legal analysis, the directive set the entire federal government on a crusade for genderlessness in every aspect of American society—including employment, housing, health care, and education—the practical effect of which has been decidedly bad...

WASHINGTON—Kamala Harris is making abortion rights central to her candidacy for president as Republicans struggle to articulate a winning message on the issue. In contrast with President Biden, who was reluctant to say the word abortion, the vice president has campaigned aggressively on it since the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that eliminated the constitutional right to the procedure. At the White House, she has met with abortion providers and women who have had abortions. Earlier this year, Harris was believed to be the first president or vice president to visit an abortion clinic. After locking up the support to be...

Ruh roh. Feminists can’t compute. Brain malfunction.

There is a creeping sense that our society has turned upside-down. Healthy debate is replaced by activist hysterics. Speech is declared violence; violence is excused as speech. Masculinity is condemned as “toxic,” while men in dresses are celebrated in the public square. It feels as if we are in the midst of a society-wide mental breakdown. … A strange new pattern of psychological dysfunction has infiltrated all our institutions, from humdrum bureaucracies to the highest offices. Wherever we turn, that creeping feeling sets in: our society is sick; our institutions are out of balance; our public life has been consumed...

Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas defended the presence of women serving in the United States Secret Service, noting that they “deserve our gratitude and respect.” In a statement released on Saturday, Mayorkas wrote that the “statements questioning the presence of women in law enforcement,” in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump were “baseless and insulting.”