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  • 'Male Supremacism' Conference Spirals Into Open Call for Authoritarian Censorship

    04/29/2025 9:25:29 AM PDT · by HKMk23 · 37 replies
    Townhall ^ | 04/28/2025 | Jeff Charles
    A Virginia Commonwealth University professor called for deplatforming right-leaning media figures and influencers to “disrupt capitalism.” Podcaster and blogger Dr. Karlyn Borysenko went undercover to report on the Male Supremacism Studies Conference. Dr. Kay Coghill, during a conversation at the conference, advocated for silencing those who hold conservative or Republican views.
  • Trump Administration: Penn Violated Title IX With Trans Swimmer

    04/28/2025 8:00:34 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    ESPN ^ | Apr 28, 2025
    The Trump administration said Monday that the University of Pennsylvania violated laws guaranteeing women equal opportunities in athletics by letting a transgender swimmer compete on the school's women's team and into team facilities. The administration's statement does not name Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who last competed for the Ivy League school in Philadelphia in 2022 and was the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title that year -- an award Thomas now faces losing. But the investigation opened in February by the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights focused on Thomas, who became a leading...
  • 'The Last of Us' Star Pedro Pascal Calls J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Social Post 'Heinous'

    04/24/2025 3:01:03 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 66 replies
    NBC News ^ | April 24, 2025 | Doha Madani
    Rowling posted a photo of herself celebrating on X after the U.K. Supreme Court did not recognize transgender women as women under the country's Equality Act."The Last of Us" star Pedro Pascal accused author J.K. Rowling of "heinous loser behavior" for her celebratory post following a U.K. court decision that did not recognize transgender women as women. Pascal hit hard at the "Harry Potter" author in the comment section of an Instagram video that called for a total boycott of Rowling's popular franchise. The activist Tariq Raouf posted the video last week criticizing Rowling for “reveling” in the U.K. Supreme...
  • Normalize Making Career Sacrifices to Raise Your Babies

    04/14/2025 7:52:03 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 43 replies
    Intellectual Takeout ^ | April 14, 2025 | Sarah Wilder
    There’s an entire generation of women who have been sold a specific lie. Sixty years after the second wave feminism of women like Gloria Steinem, the idea that women must have a career that looks just like a man’s in order to not squander their brains and talents still exists. The daughters of the women who grew up under Steinem’s brand of feminism understand that there are undeniable benefits of having children but have not shaken the sense that they would be giving up something at least as good, if not better, when sacrificing a career. In such an environment,...
  • How Feminist Witch Studies Redefine Magic and Power

    04/08/2025 3:11:02 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 36 replies
    UCSB News ^ | April 1, 2025 | Debra Herrick
    Witchcraft has been feared, mocked and romanticized — but rarely has it been fully understood as a story of feminist resistance and enduring cultural power. Feminist studies scholar Jane Ward has set out to change that narrative. Her latest book — a collaboration with co-author Soma Chaudhuri — introduces “feminist witch studies,” a new interdisciplinary field that explores the power, persecution and political dimensions of witchcraft across cultures. Ward, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, first engaged with the subject while preparing a course on the history of witches and witchcraft. Known for her work in sexuality and gender studies...
  • Ohio polygamist allegedly ordered her husband and 4 lovers to kidnap, torture man for a week in sick revenge plot

    04/02/2025 2:57:38 AM PDT · by Libloather · 45 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/01/25 | Anna Young
    An Ohio polygamist, her husband and her four lovers were thrown behind bars after they allegedly kidnapped and tortured a 26-year-old man held captive in a hotel room for a week – in a sick revenge scheme hatched by the group’s twisted matriarch. Martina Jones, 28; her husband Michael Esqueda, 28; and boyfriends Aaron Bradshaw, 49; Austin Bradshaw, 28; David Cessna, 26; and Chance Johnston, 27, were arrested on March 22 for terrorizing the victim at a Red Roof Inn in Maumee, according to the Toledo Police Department, WTVG reported. The deranged lovers, who reportedly share multiple children, brutally beat...
  • Schools to give boys anti-misogyny lessons to stop toxic masculinity in wake of Netflix hit Adolescence

    03/25/2025 9:54:10 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 44 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 03 24 2025 | SOPHIE CARLIN
    Schools are set to give students anti-misogyny lessons in the wake of hit Netflix TV show Adolescence about a teen boy who murders a female classmate. The classes form part of the government's new relationships, health and sex education (RHSE) guidance, which will be introduced before the end of the academic year. It comes after Sir Keir Starmer revealed at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday that he was watching the mini-series with his two teenagers - and that he backs the show creators' calls for it to be shown in parliament and schools. The four-episode programme follows the Miller family,...
  • The Joy Of Motherhood - Indonesia To Lead The World ?

    03/06/2025 9:09:14 PM PST · by Ozguy1945 · 3 replies
    https://kartiniisme.com/ ^ | 6th March, 2025, American time | Ozguy1945
    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...
  • Taylor Swift Was Booed at the Super Bowl—and Donald Trump Was Cheered. What Is Going on? Aren't we over this particular kind of misogyny?

    02/10/2025 5:46:12 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 85 replies
    Glamour ^ | February 9, 2025 | Kathleen Walsh
    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...
  • ‘Black Widow’ who killed 3 lovers for life insurance freed via Biden’s historic clemency initiative, leaving former prosecutor ‘pissed off’

    12/20/2024 3:38:45 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    New York Post ^ | Dec. 20, 2024 | Diana Glebova
    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...
  • More and More Is Coming Out About the WI Christian School Shooter

    12/18/2024 5:40:54 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 76 replies
    townhall.com ^ | December 18, 2024 | Mia Cathell
    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.
  • Inside the ‘Nordic paradox’: Why the world’s best country for women struggles with sexual violence

    12/09/2024 12:40:41 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    Euronews ^ | 12/7/2024 | Gabriela Galvin
    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)....
  • Marrying the Shrimp: How Performance Art Became Peer-Reviewed Science

    12/03/2024 2:05:12 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 13 replies
    Realitys Last Stand ^ | 12 02 2024 | Colin Wright
    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...
  • Many Catholics in the U.S. and Latin America Want the Church to Allow Birth Control and to Let Women Become Priests

    12/02/2024 2:21:56 PM PST · by daniel1212 · 301 replies
    pew research ^ | September 26, 2024 | Jonathan Evans and Kelsey Jo Starr
    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.
  • As the AI Girlfriend Industry Takes Off, These Feminist Artists are Hacking the System

    11/27/2024 2:19:44 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 37 replies
    Art in Ameirca ^ | November 27, 2024 | Emily Watlington
    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...
  • The new rise of men: Why Gen Z males voted for Trump

    11/17/2024 7:13:35 AM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 18 replies
    Higher Ground Times ^ | Nov 15, 2024 | Jeff Myers
    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...
  • This election has witnessed the rise of the harpies and other broken women

    11/08/2024 4:36:47 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 55 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 7 Nov, 2024 | Andrea Widburg
    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...
  • Is Robin Wright’s Forrest Gump Character ‘Anti-Feminist’? Actress Responds to Criticism: 'She Was Kind of Selfish'

    11/05/2024 1:03:43 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 33 replies
    People ^ | 11/3 | Tommy McArdle
    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...
  • Are crazy women destroying the west? Video-8 min

    10/30/2024 3:12:43 AM PDT · by Phoenix8 · 143 replies
    YouTube ^ | 10/9/2024 | Amy Gallagher
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  • Barbara Dane, Singer and Champion of Revolutionary Causes, Dies at 97

    10/21/2024 12:28:16 PM PDT · by Borges · 19 replies
    KQED ^ | 10/21/24 | Nastia Voynovskaya
    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...